2025 Awards – Philanthropy

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Philanthropy.

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Winner

Beyond Checks and Halos: Insights to Elevate Partnerships and Achieve the Improbable

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Author:

Cynthia Eads Currence

How is your book helping others?

This book offers a roadmap for nonprofits and corporations to create strategic partnerships that generate sustainable value far beyond simple donations. Through compelling stories and actionable insights, readers discover how to recognize and properly value their organizational assets from a partner's perspective, negotiate fair exchanges that benefit everyone involved, and transform transactional relationships into alliances that address core business needs.

This guidance matters especially now, as nonprofits face a funding crisis with growing uncertainty around traditional sources. With foundations struggling to fill widening needs, organizations are urgently seeking fresh approaches to sustainable revenue. The book helps organizations speak each other's language and align their unique strengths with partners' pressing challenges, enabling nonprofits to secure the sustainable funding needed to fulfill their missions while creating measurable business value for corporate partners.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Climb Greater Heights: How to Accelerate Your Business Growth, Amplify Your Success, and Build a Legacy of Significance

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Author:

Tony Jeton Selimi

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"Navigate the new business frontiers with unparalleled precision and insight." Dr John Demartini – Author of The Values Factor “In Climb Greater Heights, Tony J. Selimi shows you how to turn doubt and adversity into purpose, passion, and profit.” Steve Harrison – Author Success Climb Greater Heights is a transformative guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and CEOs aspiring to achieve extraordinary success. Tony J. Selimi, who rose from homelessness to spearheading billion-pound technology transformations, masterfully combines practical business acceleration strategies with profound insights into human behavior, emotional intelligence, leadership excellence, resilience, and life mastery. In this powerful book, he unveils a proven system that has helped his clients generate over a billion pounds in sales, enhance their credibility, and amplify their influence.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Negotiating

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Negotiating.

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Winner

Stoic Empathy: The Road Map to a Life of Influence, Self-Leadership, and Integrity

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Author:

Shermin Kruse

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Stoic Empathy shapes the kind of leaders who move human consciousness forward—those who lead not by dominance, but with clarity, emotional integrity, and deep human insight. By combining the ancient discipline of Stoicism with the relational power of empathic leadership—and grounding both in modern neuroscience—the book offers a new framework for influence in an age of overwhelm. It helps readers navigate high-stakes conversations, regulate emotions under pressure, and transform conflict into connection. Rather than react impulsively, readers learn to respond with grounded authority and strategic compassion. The tools in Stoic Empathy are immediately actionable in negotiations, leadership, and personal relationships—equipping people to lead with calm, connect with intention, and elevate the environments around them. In helping leaders evolve, the book helps everyone they serve.

Book available for purchase:

hayhouse.com

Winner

Transforming Healthcare Through Negotiation: A Guide to Success in Medicine, Care Delivery, and the Business of Health

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Author:

Stacey B Lee

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Transforming Healthcare Through Negotiation fills a critical gap: healthcare professionals face high-stakes conversations every day but receive little training in negotiation. This book empowers them to stop feeling powerless in difficult workplace situations and become confident, collaborative problem-solvers. Built on the HEAR™ Framework—developed at Johns Hopkins—it includes practical tools like the Healthcare Negotiation Mapping Tool and real-world case studies. Readers learn to secure resources, manage conflict, and implement changes where others hit barriers. Results include $3.1M in cost savings, biotech licensing breakthroughs, and major improvements in care delivery. Most importantly, readers report stronger patient outcomes, reduced burnout, and renewed fulfillment in their work. They become the people others turn to when tough negotiations arise—leaders who bridge divides across clinical, operational, and business priorities.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Management

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Management.

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Winner

Effective Meetings: Great Results, Less Pain, Every Time.

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Author:

Chris Fenning

How is your book helping others?

This book not only saves people time every day at work, it also reduces the frustration caused by painful meetings.
Whether the reader is leading a meeting or attending someone else's, they can use this practical, no-fluff guide to making the meeting shorter, more productive, and (dare I say it) less painful. There's even a chance they'll hear the rarest of phrases, “That meeting was actually useful.”
Drawing on experiences from more than 15,000 meetings, this book delivers a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to avoiding the most common meeting problems and fixing things when the meeting goes off track.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success

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Author:

Angela Jackson

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This revolutionary guide aims to revolutionize the workplace for justice, equity, and profitability by handing the reins over to the real drivers of success: the workers.

Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations. Her work has quantified the financial impact investing in people can have on an organization—the first reliable calculation in the literature of talent retention.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

The Multicultural Mindset

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Author:

Joycelyn David

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In today's fractured business climate, cultural intelligence has emerged as the defining competitive advantage. Marketing innovator Joycelyn David answers this challenge with her groundbreaking new book, "The Multicultural Mindset" published by Advantage Authority. In an era where business success increasingly depends on cross-cultural fluency, discover how to unlock your multicultural intelligence (MQ), transcend cultural barriers, and forge authentic connections across diverse markets and teams.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

deComplify: How Simplicity Drives Stability, Innovation, and Transformation

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Author:

Gary S Michel

How is your book helping others?

The concept behind deComplify is to simplify: Overcome the human fascination with complicating nearly everything in business in the pursuit of making a great company. Great companies are places people want to work, buy from, and invest in. deComplify is a thought-provoking and action-inciting book that will inspire readers to simplify their approach to business and aspire to greatness for their careers and organizations.

It is a refreshing take on the fundamentals, emphasizing what can be done to create a better business. It empowers leaders to take concrete steps toward building a great company. Beyond the tools and practical tips, readers will take away a renewed sense of purpose and vision for their organization and themselves, which will define the difference they can make.

Gary S. Michel shares rich lessons, insights, and tools to deComplify business. Gary introduces the concept of process debt and illustrates how reactive shortcuts create lon

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Environment

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Environment.

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Winner

Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders

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Author:

Gib Hedstrom

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This book addresses how leading companies can thrive in an emerging future that prioritizes decarbonization and dematerialization. With over 300 examples of practices by 180 leading global companies, this timely book discusses how companies must demonstrate a track record of reducing negative impacts and creating value through sustainable offerings — and help suppliers and customers do the same. They must understand that the board owns the critical 5-7-year planning horizon that is key to how successful companies create long-term value. As climate risks amplify, the short-term focus of most executive teams leads to missing new opportunities while facing new perils. This book will help investors, citizens, students, and educators discover proven strategies for sustainable growth; CEOs and corporate secretaries to reframe board agendas; and boards to measure performance and chart a course to transform climate risk into opportunity.

Book available for purchase:

degruyterbrill.com

Winner

Scaling Conservation: The business of restoring the wild

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Author:

Rich Stockdale

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Scaling Conservation helps people by reframing conservation as an economic necessity rather than an optional nicety. Showing how nature can be valued as a bankable asset, the book empowers readers to see environmental restoration not only as a moral duty but also as a financial opportunity that safeguards livelihoods, homes, food, air, and water. Through real-world examples from Oxygen Conservation’s £200 million natural capital portfolio and the transformation of 43,000 acres of land. This book helps individuals, communities, and businesses understand how investing in nature can drive innovation, resilience, and prosperity. For conservationists, it provides inspiration and practical guidance; for investors and leaders, it offers a roadmap to align profit with purpose. Ultimately, it helps people by proving that protecting nature is not optional; it is the key to a thriving and sustainable future.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.co.uk

Winner

How to Be Sustainable: Business Strategies for Leading Change

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Author:

Paolo Taticchi

Co-Author Names

Melina Corvaglia-Charrey

How is your book helping others?

According to PwC, the number of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) tripled in 2021 alone. Business leaders across the world are realizing that, if they are to effectively reduce their carbon footprint and play their part in combating climate change, they need to implement sustainability initiatives that are practical and impactful.

How to be Sustainable uncovers the global CSOs and other changemakers who are successfully deploying sustainability practices, which are making a difference. For this book, leading business sustainability academic Paolo Taticchi has interviewed these figures from across the world and across different sectors to discover the common methods and strategies that lead to change.

From building collaboration and engagement to actively implementing sustainability initiatives, this book clearly outlines the practical steps behind turning an organization into a sustainability gamechanger.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

The Green Wave: Embracing Renewable Energy in Maritime Shipping

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Author:

Mustafa Nejem

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The Green Wave is not just a maritime guide , it is a journey of hope and transformation. Every chapter invites readers to imagine cleaner oceans, thriving port cities, and ships powered by the limitless energy of nature. It speaks to the ship captain seeking safer, greener voyages; to the engineer determined to innovate beyond fossil fuels; and to the policymaker envisioning a future where trade and ecology coexist in harmony. By weaving real-world case studies with actionable solutions, the book ignites a sense of responsibility and possibility. Readers come away not only informed but deeply inspired , realizing that their daily choices can reduce emissions, preserve marine life, and create a legacy for generations to come. The Green Wave empowers people to believe that sustainable change is within reach, and that they have the power to steer the course toward a brighter, cleaner, and more prosperous maritime future.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Unleashing an Infinite Future

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Author:

Todd Thomas

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Unleashing an Infinite Future empowers readers to think boldly about the future of energy, technology, and humanity’s role in shaping both. Rather than offering quick fixes, the book helps readers understand how breakthroughs in AI, clean energy, biocomputing, and sustainable infrastructure can create a more abundant and resilient world. For entrepreneurs, policymakers, and curious minds alike, it’s a roadmap to long-term success—financial, environmental, and societal. Readers walk away with a clearer understanding of where innovation is heading and how to position themselves or their organizations to thrive in that future. Whether you're navigating career choices, investment decisions, or simply trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world, *Unleashing an Infinite Future* provides a big-picture perspective that can lead to smarter strategies, more meaningful impact, and a deeper sense of purpose. It’s not just about surviving the future—it’s about helping build it.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com