2025 Awards – Self-Help Motivation

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

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From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships: Navigating life's troubled waters with resilience and hope

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Author:

Rhona Morrison

How is your book helping others?

From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships is a powerful reminder that even the most unexpected life changes can lead to profound personal growth. Through her candid and uplifting memoir, Dr. Rhona Morrison shows readers how to navigate loss, uncertainty, and reinvention with courage and curiosity. After the sudden loss of her husband, Rhona didn’t retreat - she explored. Her story offers practical inspiration for anyone facing a major life shift, whether it’s grief, retirement, or a change in identity. By sharing how she launched an art business, published a book, and embraced life as a cruise ship lecturer, Rhona encourages others to see endings as beginnings. This book helps people reframe their own challenges as opportunities to discover new passions, purpose, and joy. Warm, witty, and real, it’s a roadmap for anyone wondering what’s next? - proving that life after loss can be not just possible, but extraordinary.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success

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Author:

Antonio Garrido

How is your book helping others?

Most business leaders report that they are seeing success, yet often struggle with self-doubt, overwhelm, imposter syndrome, anxiety about business growth, poor work/life balance, and the sense they’re not yet the leader that, deep down, they know they need to be.

My Daily Leadership equips business owners, top-level executives, and managers with daily leadership habits, mindsets, and strategies to reach their full potential and become the extraordinary leaders their people and company deserve. Packed with journal prompts throughout, the book encourages leaders to develop a habit of self-reflection as they discover and strengthen their unique leadership style, transforming the way they think, behave, and lead. By implementing the Five Core Elements of Exceptional Leadership and the Twenty Critical Performance Competencies, leaders learn to futureproof themselves, their people, and their business, building a lasting legacy of high performance – one day at a time.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Personal Transformation

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Personal Transformation.

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Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life

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Author:

Nil Demircubuk

How is your book helping others?

Down to Earth offers a rigorous, practical framework for harnessing intuition to make better decisions, improve relationships, and enhance self-care, setting it apart from typical books that simply advise readers to trust their inner wisdom. Author and intuition teacher Nil Demircubuk delivers actionable, research-informed methods for identifying and cultivating intuition, while encouraging readers to question and critically evaluate their insights, just as they would advice from a wise friend. The book features techniques tailored to diverse learning styles and demonstrates their application in real-world business and personal scenarios. By advancing intuition from a vague concept to a repeatable, teachable process, Down to Earth makes intuitive skill a strategic advantage for professionals navigating today’s fast-paced, complex world.

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Braving the Workplace: Belonging at the Breaking Point

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Author:

Beth Kaplan

How is your book helping others?

Braving the Workplace: Belonging at the Breaking Point revolutionizes the conversation around belonging—a vital yet overlooked human need—within modern workplaces. Through groundbreaking research and compelling narratives, the book explores how the absence of belonging fosters workplace-induced trauma, identity disorders, and burnout, offering a new lens to understand and address these pervasive issues.

Dr. Kaplan reframes belonging as an active process, connecting identity, inclusion, and purpose. Her actionable insights bridge the gap between productivity and humanity. In a world reshaped by the pandemic, where employees are reevaluating work’s role in their lives, her work provides a timely blueprint for systemic change.

Accessible and universally relevant, this book speaks to leaders, professionals, and anyone seeking fulfillment at work, making a compelling case for belonging as the foundation of well-being and workplace transformation.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Recovering from Emotional Trauma: Essential Tools to Help Calm Your Emotions, Heal Your Sense of Self, and Strengthen Relationships

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Author:

Todd Berntson

How is your book helping others?

Emotional trauma impacts the lives of just about everyone. This book helps those who have experienced emotional trauma heal from their wounds so they can live the life of success they were meant to live. This book is also a critical resource for managers, clinicians, or family members to help support those who struggle with the effects of emotional trauma.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

CHANGE: Six Science-Backed Strategies to Transform Your Brain, Body, and Behavior

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Author:

Michael Joseph Lopez

How is your book helping others?

This book is changing the game of change, for individuals, teams, and companies. After years watching traditional approaches fail to get results, the world of change needed a new approach. This book leans into the science of change and what happens to us on a macro and micro level when we try to achieve our goals. By leveraging the latest science, CHANGE gives people a practical framework for how to implement change at any level – in life or in business. Readers are celebrating the book's direct, conversational ability to translate complex scientific concepts into everyday strategies for change. Beyond personal change, many business leaders and companies are leveraging the book's strategies to transform their companies from within.

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2025 Awards – Technology – General

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

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The Creative CTO: Intuitive Technology Leadership for the Modern Enterprise

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Author:

James Adams

How is your book helping others?

The Creative CTO helps aspiring and current technology leaders navigate one of the most complex and misunderstood roles in modern business. Drawing from decades of experience at top global firms, James Adams offers a clear, real-world blueprint for how to lead technology at scale—with clarity, creativity, and credibility. The book breaks down core responsibilities like strategy, architecture, governance, and team leadership in a way that’s accessible, practical, and deeply human. It’s especially empowering for professionals without traditional credentials, showing that curiosity, perseverance, and continuous learning matter more than titles or degrees. In a time when every organization is shaped by technology, The Creative CTO is giving the next generation of leaders the tools—and confidence—to step into the role.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence

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Author:

Ja-Naé Duane

Co-Author Names

Steve Fisher

How is your book helping others?

Humanity stands at a pivotal juncture, marking the transition from one age to another every 200 years, now propelled by swift technological and societal transformations that have accelerated the pace of change from decades to months. This era of rapid evolution presents a choice: to slow the adoption of new technologies, potentially monopolized by a few, or to democratize access and knowledge, fostering a shared progress. In SuperShifts, leading behavioral scientist Dr. Ja-Naé Duane and world-renowned innovator and futurist Steve Fisher highlight the various catalysts for change currently affecting individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. They also provide a model for transformation that expertly bridges the gap between theory and practice to provide a holistic view of making radical change through three lenses: you as a leader, your organization, and society.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Building Agentic AI Systems

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Author:

Wrick Talukdar

Co-Author Names

Anjanava Biswas

How is your book helping others?

Building Agentic AI Systems is a bestselling, field-tested guide that turns generative AI from hype into results. It equips leaders and builders with a practical playbook to build autonomous AI agents that save money, ship faster, and improve product quality.It gives patterns, checklists, and blueprints that cut rework and scale from prototype to production. Readers learn to design agents that reason, act, and self-audit, reducing risk, meeting compliance, and earning trust. Real-world cases show how to automate document processing, customer service, and analytics, yielding lower cost per transaction and higher throughput. Endorsed by industry stalwarts, including Apple’s former Chief Scientist for Siri and praised by the technology community as “game-changing,” this book fills a critical market gap, enabling faster decisions, fewer failures, safer deployments, and a repeatable path to ROI with trustworthy, human-centered autonomous AI agents

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

DesignedUp: A designer’s guide on how to lead inside the tech industry

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Author:

Emma Carter

How is your book helping others?

DesignedUp is a practical guide for designers navigating the complex worlds of tech and consultancy, where design is often undervalued or misunderstood. It's for those that =struggle to get non-designers to see the value of their work. Sharing my own experience as a design leader in the tech industry and personal stories I've gathered from tech, business and design leaders at companies such as, Thoughtworks, frog, PwC, etc. Readers will learn how to communicate in business and tech language, build credibility, and make the value of design visible. “Thank you for all the guidance and support you shared in the pages of your book. I initially struggled in the tech consultancy when I joined, but adding your book to my journey has helped me greatly. Before each new account, I review your book and refresh my memory on how to behave like a DesignedUp leader. Thank you so much" - Senior design consultant

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Power Up Product Management: A Quick Start Guide

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Author:

Allison J. Taylor

Co-Author Names

Chris Naunheimer

How is your book helping others?

Readers of Power Up Product Management call it a “current, smart, and empowering” guide that “will get you moving.” Compact, actionable, and engaging, it serves as “a practical toolkit” for entrepreneurs, career seekers, and executive leaders to jump into building and selling outstanding products. Book reviewers also describe its “engaging mix of knowledge, exercises, and fun elements” helped them quickly upskill in product management, learning through real-life Silicon Valley and global stories from expert authors.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Technology – Game Changer

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

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The Executive’s Guide to IT: A Strategic Approach to Information Technology Management

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Author:

Robert Flanagan

How is your book helping others?

The Executive’s Guide to IT is empowering business leaders to see technology not as a burden, but as a growth engine. By stripping away jargon and focusing on strategy, it helps executives:
Make smarter decisions by connecting operational and financial data for a clearer business picture.
Save time and money by uncovering inefficiencies and eliminating patchwork systems.
Future-proof their companies with scalable IT architecture that grows with the business.
Lead with confidence even without a tech background, using practical frameworks designed for real-world application.

Transform operations through the role of a Virtual CIO, showing how to scale effectively without unnecessary overhead. Readers walk away with clarity, practical tools, and a roadmap to align IT with business goals—helping them cut through complexity and unlock sustainable growth.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Prompting Made Simple: How to Use ChatGPT and Unlock the Power of AI (Making AI Simple for Everyone)

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Author:

Rajeev Kapur

How is your book helping others?

Prompting Made Simple helps people unlock the full potential of AI by teaching them how to communicate with tools like ChatGPT effectively. It empowers readers, from CEOs to families, to boost productivity, creativity, and decision-making using proven prompt frameworks. With real-world examples and expert techniques, it simplifies a complex skill into something practical and accessible. Readers learn how to save time, avoid common pitfalls, and get meaningful results in work, life, and learning. Whether planning a vacation, writing emails, or brainstorming business ideas, this book turns AI into a powerful everyday partner.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Building Agentic AI Systems

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Author:

Wrick Talukdar

Co-Author Names

Anjanava Biswas

How is your book helping others?

Building Agentic AI Systems is a bestselling, field-tested guide that turns generative AI from hype into results. It equips leaders and builders with a practical playbook to build autonomous AI agents that save money, ship faster, and improve product quality.It gives patterns, checklists, and blueprints that cut rework and scale from prototype to production. Readers learn to design agents that reason, act, and self-audit, reducing risk, meeting compliance, and earning trust. Real-world cases show how to automate document processing, customer service, and analytics, yielding lower cost per transaction and higher throughput. Endorsed by industry stalwarts, including Apple’s former Chief Scientist for Siri and praised by the technology community as “game-changing,” this book fills a critical market gap, enabling faster decisions, fewer failures, safer deployments, and a repeatable path to ROI with trustworthy, human-centered autonomous AI agents

Book available for purchase:

a.co

Finalist

Vibe Code Life: The AI Workflow Framework for the Next Era of Work

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Author:

Jay Garg

How is your book helping others?

This book helps people reimagine how they work and live in an age where artificial intelligence is no longer optional but essential. Vibe Code Life introduces the AI Workflow Framework, a practical guide that shows readers how to partner with AI to save time, reduce stress, and unlock new opportunities for growth. Instead of being overwhelmed by technology, readers learn how to use AI as a supportive companion that boosts creativity, productivity, and decision-making. The book provides simple step-by-step methods to streamline everyday tasks, accelerate career success, and free up mental energy for what truly matters. By applying these principles, people are able to achieve more with less effort, improve their work-life balance, and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive world. Ultimately, this book empowers individuals to transform challenges into opportunities and to thrive confidently in the future of work.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Career Success

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Business Career Success.

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Working Hell to Working Well: Making Your Company Work For You

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Author:

Lindsay K Barnett

How is your book helping others?

Nearly half of American employees report experiencing burnout, making it one of today’s most urgent workplace challenges. My book was written as both a response to this crisis and a roadmap out of it, helping readers navigate the realities of corporate systems in ways that allow them to move forward with greater clarity and strength. Rather than viewing burnout as an individual failing, it provides practical tools and mindset shifts that empower people to advocate for their needs, set boundaries, and build the staying power required to thrive when work won’t sit still. A key theme is the ripple effect of role modeling: when one person makes small changes visible—whether it’s leaving loudly, prioritizing recovery, or naming what they need—it inspires and legitimizes those behaviors for others, creating momentum toward healthier cultures. Ultimately, the book shows that even in difficult environments, there are often more options and possibilities than people realize.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Headhunter Confidential: The Unwritten Rules For Landing a Job You Love

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Author:

Katharine Day Bremer

How is your book helping others?

Headhunter Confidential: The Unwritten Rules for Landing a Job You Love helps people find work they actually want to wake up for, which is especially important when job security feels shaky and modern career paths keep shifting.
With today’s layoffs and industry upheaval, many people are being forced to reconsider what they do for a living. This book reframes that disruption as an opportunity. Instead of just scrambling for any job, readers learn to pause and figure out what kind of work energizes them, then go after positions that fit. The book shows how to identify your actual strengths, connect with people who can help, and stand out when competition is fierce.
The strategies work whether you've been downsized, are stuck in a toxic workplace, took a break from work, or just realized life's too short to spend it doing work you don't care about.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

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

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Author:

Dr. David R Oxley

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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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Finalist

The Professional: A Playbook to Unleash Your Potential and Futureproof Your Success

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Author:

Tony Frost

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None

How is your book helping others?

Professionals (including but not only lawyers and accountants) building a successful career today, face these four interlinked challenges and potential opportunities; the first two have been building for some decades, while the second two are very recent:

1. Complexity
2. Increased client demands
3. Remote work courtesy of COVID-19
4. Artificial intelligence.

To achieve build a successful career, you will want to respond to these four challenges in the most effective manner.

My book is the essential companion on your career journey. As well as being your go-to guide on the above issues, it will help you think about and answer two vitally important questions:

• How can I become my best possible professional?
• How can I add the most value in the age of artificial intelligence?

This book will fundamentally change how you think about your skills and how you will prioritise their development over the rest of your career or careers.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au

Finalist

Future Purpose: The Playlist to Design a Career You Love

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Author:

Jo Ann Herold

How is your book helping others?

Future Purpose helps readers "do what they love and love what they do" by designing careers that spark genuine passion and purpose. Herold makes career advice accessible through her unique approach of pairing each chapter with iconic songs. The book guides readers through life's inevitable career "pivots,” teaching them to turn potential setbacks into comebacks and achieve lasting professional success.

Whether you're navigating "getting quit," mastering the serendipity of showing up, or learning to belong confidently in any room, Jo Ann provides practical tools and vision board strategies that help readers get out of their comfort zone and into their growth zone. Drawing from her thirty-year career leading iconic brands and advice from other influential leaders, she shares the practices of "wildly successful people" and demonstrates how to build careers that achieve both professional success and personal fulfillment.

Book available for purchase:

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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.

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