2025 Awards – Wealth Management

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

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Winner

Worthy and Wealthy: Discovering Abundance and Fulfilment Beyond Money

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Author:

Emma Lagerlow

How is your book helping others?

Worthy & Wealthy helps women redefine wealth and discover a life of abundance beyond money. Blending personal storytelling with practical tools, this transformative guide offers soulful insights, exercises and journal prompts to help readers reconnect with their self-worth, uncover their purpose and set meaningful goals. Built on five key pillars — self-worth, purpose, wellbeing, financial empowerment and time freedom — it provides a holistic framework for living with clarity, vitality and intention.

Whether navigating burnout, life change or a desire for deeper alignment, Worthy & Wealthy empowers women to break free from limiting beliefs, align with their values and create a life that feels as good as it looks. More than a book about money, it is a call to remember your inherent worth and build a rich, fulfilling life from the inside out.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au

Winner

Two-Comma Wealth: Investment, Tax, and Estate Strategies to Consider When Your Net Worth Exceeds a Million Dollars

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Author:

George Stefanou

How is your book helping others?

It is expected that by 2028, the U.S. millionaire population will grow to 25.4 million, which represents a 16 percent increase from 2022. With millions of households achieving two-comma wealth through rising home values, equity compensation, entrepreneurial success, and diligent investment strategies, the need for targeted financial guidance has never been greater. Becoming a millionaire brings a new level of responsibility: the decisions one makes can have a profound impact on their financial future and the legacy they leave behind. With over 15 years of experience and thousands of diverse client interactions, Forbes-ranked top advisor George Stefanou has developed a talent for humanizing finance and helping clients navigate the complexities of wealth management. His new book, Two-Comma Wealth, provides a roadmap to confidently navigate the emotional, fiscal, behavioral, and legacy-building components of substantial financial success.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Self-Help General

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Self-Help General.

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Winner

The Authenticity Key: Claim Your Words. Set Your Compass. Blaze Your Trail.

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Author:

Hilary Dawn Rose Bilbrey

How is your book helping others?

The Authenticity Key helps people break free from leading and living out of trauma, toxicity, and self-doubt. Too often, we move through the world believing we are “not enough” — and that belief quietly shapes our relationships, our work, and our impact. This book invites readers to stop faking it until they make it and instead practice it until they become it — aligning daily with integrity, clarity, and purpose.

The benefit is both personal and collective: readers learn simple strategies to self-reflect, connect meaningfully with others, and take purposeful action that ripples outward. When we decide how we want to show up — at home, in friendships, in community, and at work — we not only reclaim our own compass, we also elevate those around us. The Authenticity Key is a call to live as the magic the world needs, now more than ever.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

AI-Augmented Decisions: A Practical Guide

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Author:

Mike Baxter

How is your book helping others?

Organisations and individuals are having to make high-stakes decisions in an increasingly unpredictable and complex world. In today’s fast-moving environment, the time available for decision-making is shrinking as the cost of poor decisions increases.

This book helps in the following ways:
1. It gives you a process for making faster, smarter, better decisions. This robust five-phase decision-making process has been designed around key principles established from decades of design thinking, complexity theory and decision science.

2. It offers five free super-prompts to enable your decisions to be augmented by the AI of your choice.
No prior AI experience is needed - from choosing and setting up your AI platform to crafting effective prompts, this guide takes you through every stage. This isn't about letting AI make decisions for you—it's about transforming any AI platform into your researcher, thinking partner and executive assistant so you can make the big decisions that matter you.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.co.uk

Finalist

Headamentals: How Leaders Can Crack Negative Self-Talk

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Author:

Suzy Burke, PhD

Co-Author Names

Ryan Berman, Rhett Power

How is your book helping others?

Headamentals is an actionable guide that helps leaders silence negative self-talk before it spirals into toxic team-talk. Doubt and mental spirals don’t just affect the individual; they ripple into miscommunication, stalled progress, and reduced confidence across the team. By tackling the root of the problem—the destructive internal “Monster”—leaders create space for clarity, focus, and more productive conversations.

Grounded in decades of research and coaching, Headamentals delivers practical tools through the 3-C Maverick Method: Catch, Confront, and Change negative dialogue. This concise framework empowers leaders to strengthen resilience, make decisions faster, and lead with confidence.

Filled with real-life stories, insights, and exercises, the book is designed for busy professionals who need immediate impact. The result is stronger leaders who model courage and create healthier, more effective teams capable of thriving.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Harnessing Purpose: A Marketer's Guide to Inspiring Connection

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Author:

Melissa Fors Shackelford

How is your book helping others?

Harnessing Purpose is a guide for marketers and leaders who want their work to matter. It helps readers clarify both personal and professional purpose, then shows how to align the two. Rather than treating marketing as just a tool for growth, the book reframes it as a way to connect, build trust, and drive meaningful change. It offers practical strategies to uncover brand purpose, lead with integrity, and create campaigns that resonate beyond the bottom line. Readers also get tools to build resilient, values-driven teams and navigate challenges like burnout and misalignment. With a focus on inclusive, ethical marketing, the book challenges professionals to do better—for their organizations and their audiences. Rooted in real-world experience, Harnessing Purpose is for those ready to lead with intention, make a lasting impact, and grow their business with purpose at the core. It’s equal parts inspiration, strategy, and call to action.

Book available for purchase:

amzn.to

Finalist

Be Well to Lead Well: A Self-Coaching Guide to Support Personal Development and Well-Being at Work

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Author:

Waajida Small

How is your book helping others?

This book provides strategies, guidance and “coach yourself questions'' (CYQs) as prompts to help readers develop goals around specific areas that support their overall well-being in the workplace. Readers explore their thought habits, create a personal mission statement, and reflect on their levels of self-efficacy among other activities that allow them to do a deep dive into what they really need to be well at work, be fully present for themselves and their teams, and make an impact.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Self-Help Happiness

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Self-Help Happiness.

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Winner

This is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose

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Author:

Shane Jackson

How is your book helping others?

In This Is the Thing, intention enthusiast Shane Jackson takes a deep dive into the answers that elude us to get at the heart of both why and how we can find purpose and experience joy. He delivers insights into every corner of our lives—from relationships to the choices we make to how we spend our time. Chapter by chapter, he offers experience, intuition, perspective, and reflection on specific slices of life, leaving the reader with gems that illuminate an actionable path to fulfillment.

Kirkus Reviews said, "Searching readers may benefit from this book and may be inspired to pick up other works that Jackson mentions in its pages… A conversational, upbeat advice book that draws on the author’s life experience," and a book reviewer said, "Reading this book feels like sitting down with a trusted mentor—someone who doesn’t just tell you what to think but asks the kinds of questions that encourage real growth."

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

Happiness is a Serious Business

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Author:

Nic Marks

How is your book helping others?

Happiness is a Serious Business proves that happiness at work is not a soft extra – it’s the foundation of success. Happier employees deliver more than twice the value of those who are merely “OK.” They are 20–30% more productive, more creative, and they stay longer, avoiding the costly churn that undermines momentum. Too many teams get stuck in OK – surviving, but not thriving. This book shows leaders how to break through that ceiling.

Written by Nic Marks, statistician and creator of the Happy Planet Index, it turns science and data from thousands of teams into simple, practical tools. From the Five Ways to Happiness at Work to the Dynamic Model of Team Happiness, it offers a fresh, evidence-based roadmap. At its heart is the innovative “measure–meet–repeat,” a weekly rhythm that embeds happiness in everyday team life without costly programmes or gimmicks.

It helps people by aligning personal wellbeing with team spirit and organisational success – so everyone wins.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Joy Cards Guidebook

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Author:

Michelle Burke

Co-Author Names

Lilamani de Silva

How is your book helping others?

Joy Card Guidebook is your resource to help increase joy and decrease stress. The science-based personal wellness tool with 48 rituals is divided into four categories promoting health benefits that nourish the mind, body, heart and soul. Our research showed the mere act of engaging with joy daily has the power to boost the immune system, elevate mood and inspire a positive outlook.

Why It Works - Scientifically proven activities tap into the body’s natural chemistry to release “feel-good hormones” like dopamine, serotonin and endorphins to help people rediscover joy, reduce anxiety, and build emotional resilience—one joy-filled moment at a time. These unique activities focus on different aspects of our lives using a holistic approach. Rituals like Judgment Free Day, Dance Party, Celebrate You and Notice the Joy Gems — are designed to be simple, uplifting, and repeatable, helping users build long-term habits for well-being. Consider joy your daily dose of self-care.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

A Groundhog Career: A tale of career traps and how to escape them

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Author:

Dr. David R Oxley

Co-Author Names

Dr Helmut Schuster

How is your book helping others?

How do we find work that fulfills and sustains us? Can we choose professional joy over suffering?

We are suffering from an epidemic. Of suffering and disillusionment. Research shows that as many as 90% of us aren't engaged in our work. 60% say they aren't fulfilled by their jobs and a staggering 20% say its a source of misery in their lives.

A Groundhog Career, through a combination of the hugely entertaining Shey Sinope fable, and the accompanying deeply insightful and thought-provoking analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises faced by anyone who wants to succeed in a world where all the power seems to be in the entrenched organizational systems. It also reveals how to be more aware of the risks, to stay aligned with your core identity and your convictions, and ultimately how to take control of your own career journey… to live professional life on your own terms.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Self-Help How To

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Self-Help How To.

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Winner

The Cancer Parent's Handbook, What Your Oncologist Doesn't Have Time to Tell You

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Author:

Laura DeKraker Lang-Ree

How is your book helping others?

TCPH was written to help parents of kids with cancer who are thrown into the terrifying, overwhelming world of childhood cancer, one where there’s no manual, just shock, medical jargon, and impossible decisions. It's the first guidebook of its kind, and is desperately needed by the 400,000 families diagnosed this year.
I began writing TCPH when my own child was in treatment to help parents navigate their new normal. It contains practical tips, clever tactics, and the honest advice they need to survive the marathon of pediatric cancer while maintaining their role as a strong parent. From how to advocate with your care team, to wrangling hospital schedules, to carving out moments of self-care, it’s compassionate guidance and actionable strategies from someone who’s lived it.

Written in collaboration with oncologists and nurse practitioners, with a foreword by Dr. Dahl. Reviews say TCPH helps parents feel seen, less alone, more in control, and most importantly, supported beyond measure.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

Jumpstart your LinkedIn Profile

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Author:

Sandra Long

How is your book helping others?

• Helps the reader attract new opportunities – business or career
• Clear, concise, and ACTIONABLE tips about LinkedIn profile
• Helps the reader to “position themselves” for success
• Helps the reader be more personal and interesting to profile viewers
• How to select the best words/phrases … and placement of words
• How to leverage the profile sections
• How to create a better visual profile. How to position media like videos and other content.
• How to optimize the profile to be found more easily (LinkedIn is a search engine)
• How to distinguish yourself as a thought leader
• How to drive website traffic using your profile
• Learn to create relationships using LinkedIn – with the author's “Be the Friend First” philosophy
• Author runs leading company worldwide focused 100% on using LinkedIn to power a business. First book was LinkedIn for Personal Branding The Ultimate Guide. As LinkedIn leader, has waiting list to work with her. Book was Amazon bestseller.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Thrive in the AI and Digital Age: The SEAM 4-Step Career Guide & Workbook

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Author:

Madeleine F Wallace

How is your book helping others?

THRIVE is redefining how people prepare for the future of work. Unlike traditional career guides, this research-based workbook delivers a proven, action-oriented model—the SEAM Framework: Snapshot (assess where you are), Envision (define where you want to go), Act (plan and execute), and Measure (track and adjust). It avoids a one-size-fits-all approach by offering seven distinct Career Profiles—Strategic Innovator, Skillful Seeker, Strategic Transitioner, Adaptive Navigator, Engaged Learner, Curious Explorer, and Uncertain Voyager—allowing readers to personalize their experience. They explore career scenarios and turn insights into action through Agile-style sprints that build adaptability. From mid-career professionals to HR leaders and managers, readers gain practical tools to become agile, lifelong learners. With exercises, case studies, and worksheets, THRIVE turns uncertainty into opportunity and empowers confident leadership in the AI era.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Inspiration

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

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Winner

Take Heart: Hopeful & Humorous Lessons From a Two-Time Transplant Recipient

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Author:

David Craig

How is your book helping others?

Through David's 35-year journey with two heart transplants and countless medical crises, readers learn how to maintain hope when life spirals beyond control. The book shows how to "flip the script" on devastating experiences, counterbalance adversity by leaning into relationships and purpose, and develop a broader perspective that puts daily struggles in context.

Take Heart helps people facing health crises, career setbacks, and life's unexpected storms find their footing again. Readers discover how to build the kind of relationships that carry you through dark times, find meaning even in suffering, and serve others while fighting their own battles. David's candor about his lowest moments, alongside his resilience, proves that staying optimistic isn't about pretending everything's fine. It's about choosing where to focus your energy and what lens you use to view your circumstances. This memoir gives readers a framework for living fully, even when life doesn't go according to plan.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

See Me: Street Poetry from Vinnies

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Author:

Jordan Grantham

How is your book helping others?

See Me is a ground-breaking new publication of poetry which celebrates the voices, creativity and humanity of a special group of individuals who have been assisted by the St Vincent de Paul Society.

As Australia's first anthology to showcase the work of poets with lived experience of homelessness and marginalisation, the collection offers striking new portraits of everyday life and common humanity.

This special limited first edition publishing of See Me: Street Poetry from Vinnies is a beautifully designed hardcover book, primarily intended to honour the extraordinary writers and humans in the group.

Featuring the works of over a dozen new poets, the writers in See Me will challenge and inspire you with their openness, joy and imagination.

Book available for purchase:

gleebooks.com.au

Finalist

The innovative guide to fashion and beauty

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Author:

Murielle Gagné Gagné

How is your book helping others?

This guide features interviews with 30 change-making creators—many of whom are internationally renowned—who boldly push the boundaries of fashion and beauty. Each conversation offers moments of insight, fascinating discoveries, and highlights enriching journeys that are sure to spark your creativity and inspire your personal style.

Why you'll love this guide ?

DISCOVER

Captivating stories from renowned designers and fascinating information.
Practical fashion and beauty tips.
Innovations in skincare and cosmetics.
The fashion trends to follow.
Beyond the outfit: Lipstick, the detail that completes your look!

Book available for purchase:

amazon.ca

Finalist

Reflection in the Mirror - You are Enough: Book of Affirmations

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Author:

Kristen Marie MacDonald

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Illustrated by: Susan Kerian

How is your book helping others?

Being a survivor of Domestic Violence, I had many struggles with bullying, control, manipulation, self-worth and confidence. Writing my book has changed my life and now changing lives of others, changing lives of students, making a difference in 19 schools, my book being used in classrooms for wellbeing lessons, being able to be borrowed from their library, giving students belief that they are amazing and do have a voice. Changing lives through public libraries, making a difference to all that borrow my book. Being a part of a magazine, sharing my story and how affirmations and my book are giving women, all who read it, confidence and belief in themselves. Hearing words like “I needed that today”, knowing I am helping that small bit in someone’s life, is the reason I wrote my book, making a difference with my words. I give hope to others when they feel lost.

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