2024 Awards – Diet and Exercise

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Health - Diet and Exercise

Winner

Fast Like A Girl

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Author:

Mindy Pelz

How is your book helping others?

While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles.

Dr. Mindy will teach you:

the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)
how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours)
how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don’t have a cycle, she has you covered)
the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic health

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Health - Diet and Exercise

Finalist

Super Gut

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Author:

William Davis, MD

How is your book helping others?

Because of our highly processed diet, pesticides, and overuse of antibiotics, our guts are now missing so many of the good bacteria that we require to be healthy. As a result, many of us have lost control over our health, weight, mood, and even behavior.

With cutting-edge research, Dr. Davis connects the dots between gut health and modern ailments such as SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), a silent and profound epidemic, which affects one out of three people and is responsible for an astounding range of human health conditions.

Super Gut shows us how to fix your microbiome once and for all. It includes more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

2024 Awards – Medical

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2024 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Health - Medical

Winner

HAIR LOSS: Options for Restoration & Reversal 2nd Edition

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Author:

Gustavo J. Gomez, PhD

How is your book helping others?

Hair loss is a significant issue affecting fifty million men and thirty million women, creating a stressful experience, especially in cultures that associate hair with vitality and health. "HAIR LOSS" offers a comprehensive guide for those seeking reliable information on managing and treating hair loss. It covers hormonal and genetic factors affecting hair loss, the effectiveness of various hair loss medications, and advanced treatment options like the Minoxidil Response Test, topical DHT blockers, and State-of-the-Art Hair Transplantation Surgery. The book also addresses the nutritional and hygienic requirements for healthy hair and explores cutting-edge treatments such as Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT), PRP Therapy, and hair cloning research.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Health - Medical

Winner

Healing Healthcare: Evidence-Based Strategies to Mend Our Broken System

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Author:

Sharon M. Weinstein

Co-Authors:

Dina Readinger

How is your book helping others?

Healing Healthcare is a poignant exploration of the intricate challenges within the healthcare landscape post-pandemic and solutions for change.

At its core, Healing Healthcare amplifies the voices of nurse leaders. This book is filled with the solutions, action steps, and strategies to fix our broken healthcare system, divided into three distinct sections: Workforce, Well-Being, and Wisdom.

Healing Healthcare is for the leader who wants to make an immediate impact. This book is a must-read for healthcare professionals, packed with vetted ideas for change; it urges readers to embrace, and be, that change.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

2024 Awards – Mind, Body, Spirit

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2024 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Health - Mind, Body, Spirit

Winner

Wellness Manual

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Author:

Leona Sokolova

How is your book helping others?

Why do you want to eat healthfully, exercise regularly, and think positively? You want to do all that because you really want to feel better about life and yourself.

In this book I want to inspire readers to focus on their wellbeing and see life positively. Wellness Manual is an effective guide for examining health from a holistic viewpoint. It means to look at every aspect of life from nutrition and exercise to relationships and mental health. It is about making healthy lifelong changes that will support your overall health.

It is based on my experiences and what has helped me achieve my wellness goals. Each chapter has my personal story and practical, useful steps to support you in achieving a harmonious and healthy lifestyle. It is all about working on yourself toward self-perfection and self-transformation.

When you keep moving your health in a positive direction it inevitably elevates positive emotions like joy, gratitude, and inspiration.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Health - Mind, Body, Spirit

Finalist

Drop Stress Like A Hot Potato- Transformative Stress Workbook with Life Coaching for Busy Women

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Author:

Natalie Shand-Spellman MSOTR/L

How is your book helping others?

"Drop Stress Like a Hot Potato" by Natalie Shand-Spellman is more than a book; it's a journey to self-empowerment and wellness. Drawing from her rich experiences as an occupational therapist, life coach, and combat marine veteran, Natalie presents a holistic approach to conquering stress and rediscovering one's authentic self. Her unique methodology, blending military discipline with therapeutic nurturing, resonates deeply with readers facing lost identity, emotional turmoil, and health challenges.
Each page of this transformative manual is infused with Natalie's personal struggles and victories, offering not just empathy but real solutions. Engaging learning tools like "Check-in points" and "Real Talk advice" make the journey interactive, while "purpose-cising" and Life's Unwritten Formula for Success provide practical strategies for turning challenges into opportunities for growth.
Natalie's book is a beacon of hope, guiding readers through life's storms to a place of peace and und

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

2024 Awards – Leadership DEI

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2024 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Leadership - DEI

Winner

The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization

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Author:

Maureen Dunne

How is your book helping others?

Attempts to implement neuroinclusion at scale have overwhelmingly failed at the hands of overgeneralized “check the box” strategies that dive no deeper than superficial accommodation. Dr. Dunne exposes this fundamental misunderstanding and explains why outcomes range from uninspiring to disastrous for organizations while still failing to serve the legions of underemployed neurodivergent jobseekers with dignity, economic opportunity, and authentic inclusion.

The Neurodiversity Edge challenges this flawed paradigm and unveils a revolutionary new framework and practical roadmap to building an organizational culture fundamentally aligned with authentic neuroinclusion in the context of accelerating technological change. The result is a bold vision for a new values-driven approach that fosters inclusion and economic opportunity for the disproportionately unemployed neurodivergent population that benefit all with cognitive and experiential diversity as an essential driver of innovation.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - DEI

Winner

Measuring Inclusion: higher profits and happier people, without guesswork or backlash

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Author:

Paolo Gaudiano

How is your book helping others?

"Measuring Inclusion" creates a direct and measurable link between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and financial success, demonstrating to business leaders how embracing DEI can drive organizational performance. The book’s innovative approach combines data and financial analogies to show that DEI is not only beneficial but essential for long-term success. Importantly, it outlines strategies that promote inclusion without triggering backlash, making DEI initiatives more appealing to leaders. By motivating organizations to prioritize DEI, this book paves the way for improved working conditions, increased representation, and greater opportunities for historically underrepresented and underprivileged individuals. The ripple effect of these changes extends beyond the workplace, fostering a more inclusive society where participation by diverse groups is encouraged and valued.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - DEI

Winner

Conscious Change: How to Navigate Differences and Foster Inclusion in Everyday Relationships

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Author:

V Jean Ramsey

Co-Authors:

Jean Kantambu Latting

How is your book helping others?

Conscious Change provides principles and tools for individuals to navigate challenges in multicultural contexts. The book showcases how 19 contributors have successfully applied the Conscious Change framework, first introduced in Reframing Change, to build inclusive workplaces and stronger interpersonal relationships. Through real-life stories, readers can learn practical skills for becoming inclusive leaders and fostering equity in work and community settings. By sharing a variety of experiences, Conscious Change has the capacity to transform lives, equipping more people with tools to create positive change in culturally diverse settings. The book's impact is significant, with a reviewer from the Midwest Review of Books noting its timely arrival "at a crucial moment in our nation's history," and praising its "invaluable insight on how we can bridge the divide and foster unity."

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - DEI

Winner

Inclusive Leadership Navigating Organisational Complexity

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Author:

Sile Walsh

How is your book helping others?

Practical Guidance: Provides practical ways to lead inclusively, regardless of formal leadership status.
Focus on Being: Emphasizes embodying inclusion daily rather than listing diversity tasks. Thoughtful Authenticity: Advocates for considered authenticity aligned with organisational goals to avoid career limitations. Human Connection: Encourages connection with one's humanity and others, fostering self-awareness and honest improvement. Empowering Guidance: Combines research-based practices with a compassionate perspective, offering clear, actionable tools. Root-Cause Approach: This approach shifts focus from fixing symptoms to addressing the root causes of exclusion, promoting a deep understanding of inclusivity. The book transforms the perception of inclusive leadership from compliance to a vital, everyday practice, making a real difference in organisational and individual dynamics.

Book available for purchase at:

amzn.to

Leadership - DEI

Finalist

Organizational Culture: A Guide to Inclusive Transformation

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Author:

Marie Carasco

How is your book helping others?

Organizational Culture will teach change managers, organizational development specialists, and HR professionals who seek to engage and support a diverse workforce. The goal of this book is to focus on the community aspect of encouraging differences while not subjecting their employees to harmful environments causing traumatic workplace experiences.

Book available for purchase at:

koganpage.com

Leadership - DEI

Finalist

Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work

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Author:

Layla McCay

How is your book helping others?

Layla McCay’s ‘Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling’ provides a compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals as they navigate their careers – with critical advice from many senior figures, from CEOs to Ambassadors, who have smashed their own rainbow ceilings. McCay reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter as they find their way in work environments and explores the hidden differences that cause LGBTQ+ people to be underrepresented at the most senior levels of professional life. McCay exposes the barriers LGBTQ+ people face in the workplace as significant, widespread and damaging to ignore and she uses her voice to provides the practical strategies that can help empower LGBTQ+ people to reach their full professional potential and equips organizations to build a more inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and succeed.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.co.uk

Leadership - DEI

Finalist

The Intimacy of Race; How to Move From Subconscious Racism to Active Allyship for People of Privilege

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Author:

Eva Medilek

How is your book helping others?

This book helps people with skin color privilege navigate the intricacies of race relations in an easily digestible, actionable way. When the need for diversity and inclusion training skyrocketed in 2020, after George Floyd's murder, people were being guilted, shamed, and canceled for saying things the wrong way. This book takes a practical approach to integrating allyship and inclusion into your daily life. From defining racism and allyship to learning about how to speak up against discrimination, this book takes the fear and mystery out of talking about race and taking action towards working to create more inclusive environments.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - DEI

Finalist

The New C-Suite: Civil Leadership in Action

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Author:

Tiana S Sanchez

Co-Authors:

Tiana Sanchez, Deborah K. Ford Ph.D, Andy Fee, Dr. Natalie Parks, Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts, Paula Valle Castañon, Marina St Cyr, Mark Maes

How is your book helping others?

In today’s increasingly polarizing world, this book is a powerful reminder of the critical role civility plays in saving us from self-destruction. As divisions deepen across societies, it’s clear that a new kind of leadership—rooted in civility, respect, and inclusivity—is needed more than ever. Readers are discovering how embracing civil leadership can bridge divides, rebuild trust, and create environments where collaboration and understanding thrive. The book shows that civility isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential for our survival, offering a path forward that prioritizes empathy, ethical behavior, and a collective sense of responsibility. In a world full of conflict, civility might just be the key to saving us from ourselves.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

2024 Awards – HR and Employee Development

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2024 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Winner

CheerLEADERship: Strategies to Build and Support Human-Centric Workplaces for the Future

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Author:

Stefanie Adams

How is your book helping others?

CheerLEADERship aims to help leaders and managers create more human-centric, supportive, and high-performing workplaces by adopting a leadership style inspired by the principles of cheerleading. The book provides practical strategies to build trust, foster connection, and inspire teams to reach new heights. The author, Stefanie Adams, teaches these same leadership principles in her free leadership development courses for nonprofits in her community.

Book available for purchase at:

a.co

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Winner

The Feedback Blueprint: Unlocking the Power of Constructive Insights

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Author:

Tenia Davis PhD

How is your book helping others?

My book, The Feedback Blueprint: Unlocking the Power of Constructive Insights, empowers leaders to create a positive and inclusive work culture by transforming how they deliver and receive feedback. This book goes beyond traditional feedback methods by introducing constructive insights—a unique approach that fosters continuous improvement, innovation, and growth. By providing leaders with practical tools and techniques, the book helps them build stronger teams, enhance communication, and cultivate an environment where everyone feels valued and heard. It not only equips readers with the skills to fine-tune their feedback practices but also inspires them to lead with empathy and inclusivity, driving both personal and organizational success.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Winner

39 Ways to Make Training Stick

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Author:

Chris Fenning

How is your book helping others?

39 Ways to Make Training Stick helps trainers make their training more effective.
It helps businesses get more value and ROI from their training budgets.
It helps trainees remember and apply what they learn - making their training efforts more effective.
Most people forget 90% of what they learn within 24 hours. This book drastically reduces that number.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Winner

The Compassion Advantage: How Top Leaders Build More Humanizing Workplaces

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Author:

Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD

How is your book helping others?

In an era marked by unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, and trauma, The Compassion Advantage guides leaders seeking to navigate these turbulent times. This book offers more than just inspiration; it provides practical, science-backed, actionable tools and real-world examples that demonstrate how compassionate leadership can transform an organization from within, creating a ripple effect that extends far beyond the workplace.

In The Compassion Advantage, readers will discover how compassion is not just a soft skill but a powerful force that can significantly bolster employee retention, enhance organizational agility, drive innovation, and supercharge engagement. By fostering a culture of compassion, leaders can attract top talent and build a resilient workforce ready to tackle any challenge.

This book helps anyone who aspires to lead in a way that not only meets the demands of the modern world but also addresses the deep-seated emotional and psychological needs of their team.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Finalist

Toxic Leaders and Tough Bosses: Organizational Guardrails to Keep High Performers on Track

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Author:

Teresa A. Daniel

How is your book helping others?

This book draws upon numerous studies and interviews to show the real, devastating impact of toxic workplace culture and why leaders must care. It discusses what signs to look out for in a toxic workplace, factors that promote toxic behavior, types of leaders and how they impact their organization, the role of HR in managing employee wellbeing, and what to look out for in exceptional leaders. With evidence-based strategies for building stronger workplace culture, including tools to help organizations develop better leaders and managers, it makes a compelling case for eradicating toxic leaders as a priority. This book is for organizational leaders, mid-level managers, supervisors, HR practitioners and anyone else invested in implementing new, tried and tested ideas to improve their organization's culture to create and sustain its optimum success.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Finalist

Shaping a Winning Team: A Leader's Guide to Hiring, Assessing, and Developing the People You Need to Succeed

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Author:

Paul Fayad

Co-Authors:

Chak Fu Lam, PhD

How is your book helping others?

Organizations spend too much of their earnings with each bad hire. They count on failed interview processes and fallible intuition of specific managers when they choose staff, create training programs, and promote from within. Despite the best of intentions, they put their people in position to fail, while simultaneously hurting morale and losing opportunities for better performance.

This book will help reorient that team-building process to better hire, assess, and manage the people that make up the foundation of every company so readers can get the right people in the right places faster, securing their productivity.

Book available for purchase at:

amplifypublishinggroup.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Finalist

The High-Value Writing Workbook: Write for Success in Work and Life

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Author:

Erin Lebacqz

How is your book helping others?

Teams and leaders can't succeed without intentional, respectful, clear communication. Leaders can use language to convey respect and build trust with employees; employees can use it to help the organization meet goals—and to build successful professional relationships.

This workbook helps all levels of employees write with strategy, intention, and clarity. The workbook includes stories, examples, before and after revisions, and lots of practice exercises! Users will even find links to related videos for those who like to learn through video and visuals. Supervisors can use the Discussion Questions in the Appendix to lead application discussions among their teams.

In the past, we've mainly learned only one set of writing goals: the informative goals. However, today's professional writing demands that we meet relational goals as well, using our writing to convey respect, build community, and balance power. Empower employees to meet both informational and relational goals!

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Finalist

Can We All Just Get Along? - Rodney King: Courageous Communication: A Return to Civility

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Author:

Diana Peterson-More

How is your book helping others?

"Can We All Just Get Along?" – Rodney King: Courageous Communication: A Return to Civility helps people by promoting understanding and civility. It offers practical strategies for engaging in respectful dialogue, even in polarized environments. The book addresses modern challenges like the pandemic and the rise of social media, providing guidance on handling their impact on communication and society. It encourages positive workplace dynamics by discussing shifts in work environments and helps counteract misinformation by promoting fact-based discussions. The book fosters personal growth by inspiring readers to contribute to a more respectful society and build stronger relationships. Through civil communication, readers learn to resolve conflicts amicably and develop empathy. Overall, it serves as a guide to improve communication skills, understand the importance of civility, and contribute positively to society.

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Finalist

Rethinking Talent Decisions: A Tale of Complexity, Technology and Subjectivity

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Author:

Sharna Wiblen

How is your book helping others?

This book presents an uncomfortable truth: Talent decisions are always complex and always subjective. This is especially true in today's digital age, where technology systems help bolster and shape talent decisions. The perspectives and the capacity of key decision-makers to craft astute talent decisions hold the potential to transcend a company from mere mediocrity to unparalleled excellence. Drawing on examples from business, sports, movies and everyday interactions, this book emphasises the importance of understanding complexity and encourages deliberate, intentional, and informed decisions and conversations around talent. The book posits that many long-held convictions about talent may be profoundly flawed and proposes that the gateway to unleashing a team’s boundless talents resides within the thoughts and judgments of team leaders.   

Book available for purchase at:

amazon.com