2025 Awards – Big Ideas

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Big Ideas.

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Winner

Tech Confidential: The Insider Playbook for Daring Entrepreneurs

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Author:

Denise Koessler Gosnell

Co-Author Names

Kathryn Erickson

How is your book helping others?

This book dishes out hard-earned strategies to help you not just survive but thrive in a world that chews people up and spits them out in the name of “innovation.”

Inside these pages, you’ll meet brilliant oddballs racing to launch the next big product, engineers treating the next line of code as their personal Everest, and leaders juggling corporate politics while one breath away from the company’s last gasp. Along the way, the authors deliver sharp, painfully relatable anecdotes and practical strategies that show you how to:

Tame your ego to navigate corporate politics like a pro
Embrace the misfits and survive toxic colleagues
Moneyball the market to build products people want
Get money or get out

Packed with insights, humor, and hard-won hope, this essential guide is for anyone daring to dream big in the tech world—and still wanting a life left to enjoy.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

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.

Book available for purchase:

a.co

Finalist

Corporate Director and Officer Liability: "Discretionaries" Not Fiduciaries

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Author:

Marc Steinberg

How is your book helping others?

Corporate Director and Officer Liability: "Discretionaries" Not Fiduciaries offers a groundbreaking model for corporate accountability — one that accurately identifies directors and officers as discretionaries and advocates for liability standards grounded in factual practice. This shift allows for a more functional, predictable, and honest approach to governance and enforcement.

The book delves into why legal terminology and accountability standards must align. First, it highlights that legal principles should reflect reality — not perpetuate myths. Second, it underscores that investors and shareholders deserve transparency about the duties and protections afforded to those in control of corporate decisions. And third, it calls for clear, truthful legal definitions that support effective governance and credible enforcement.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Travel and Hospitality

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Travel and Hospitality.

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Winner

Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World

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Author:

Dean Foster

How is your book helping others?

Business Beyond Borders introduces 25 real-life stories revealing the definitive "how-to" rules for working successfully across cultures by one of the founders of the field of intercultural competency development. The greatest factor affecting the success or failure of a global business is understanding the cultural differences that lie hidden, like minefields, in day-to-day work. Recognize and manage these cultural differences, and you accelerate your success; ignore them and they will undermine your global performance. With a summary of the "golden global rules" that everyone working in the global 21st century needs to know, Business Beyond Borders is a celebration of what makes all of us around the world-all so different- simultaneously all the same.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

83 Odyssey: An Adventure Down the Spine of America on U.S. Highway 83

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Author:

Charles Roamer

How is your book helping others?

I wrote 83 Odyssey not just to share a great road trip experience, but to inform readers about a fascinating old highway that runs near the geographic center of the U.S. from the Canadian to the Mexican border. U.S. 83 is one of the original U.S. Highways, and this system of highways was the nation's first national road system, which will reach its 100th anniversary in 2026. I'm hoping that my book will also draw more attention to this significant anniversary and other old highways besides U.S. 83; and that readers will discover that the Great Plains region I traveled the whole length of is far more interesting and beautiful than commonly perceived. Some may even be inspired to make a similar journey after learning many things about the region. charlesroamerauthor.com

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Women in Business

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Women in Business.

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Winner

Building Women: How everyone in construction can win

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Author:

Faye Allen

How is your book helping others?

Building Women is helping people by driving real, measurable change across the sector. At its core, the book empowers women to thrive in a traditionally predominantly male field; offering practical tools to overcome barriers such as discrimination, pay gaps, and lack of flexibility. Through the voices of over 1,000 women, it provides invaluable insight into the lived experiences behind the statistics, while presenting tangible solutions for everyone to build inclusive workplaces. Building Women doesn’t just benefit women, it helps businesses retain top talent, close skills gaps, and boost productivity. It equips male allies and industry leaders with actionable steps to foster a culture where everyone can succeed. By tackling the root causes of inequality, Building Women supports long-term career progression, innovation, and a stronger, more sustainable construction sector. It’s not just a call for fairness, it’s a roadmap to a more successful and future-fit industry for everyone.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.co.uk

Winner

The Leadership We Need: A New Mindset for a Brighter Future

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Author:

Maria Brinck

How is your book helping others?

There are many books on leadership and how to become a better leader, but very few on the urgent need to evolve our leadership culture. The Leadership We Need argues that masculine leadership qualities such as competition, the survival of the fittest, and tribal mentality, won’t solve the lack of employee engagement in business nor the existential challenges we face. It contrasts traditional, male-centric leadership approaches with the incredible work and wisdom of leaders, many women, whose names few have heard of and their humble, nurturing and caring leadership qualities with an unwavering will to lead in collaboration and in service of others. This book champions the inclusion of women and the acknowledgment of our entire human family, incorporating leadership skills and insights from non-Western traditions to enrich our understanding of leadership.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Financial Leadership Fundamentals: How to become a CFO in a startup or scaleup

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Author:

Alysha Randall

How is your book helping others?

Financial Leadership Fundamentals helps ambitious finance professionals step up into a leadership role particularly in fast-paced startup and scaleups where expectations are high, but guidance is often missing. The book breaks down the transition from qualified accountant or finance manager to strategic finance leader, showing readers how to stop firefighting and start influencing. It helps people build confidence, think like a CFO, and understand how to add value beyond the numbers.

Through practical tools, relatable stories, and real-world examples, the book shows how to manage founder relationships, own the finance function, and contribute at board level. It’s especially powerful for women and underrepresented professionals in finance who are ready to move from being “the one who does the reports” to someone who shapes business strategy. It’s helping readers secure promotions, lead with confidence, and redefine their role within growing companies.

Book available for purchase:

financialleadershipfoundations.com

Finalist

Deliberately Different: Fifty Years. Two Generations. Leading in a Changing World

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Author:

Judith M. von Seldeneck

Co-Author Names

Aileen K. Alexander

How is your book helping others?

This is not your typical leadership book. 

It’s the story of two very different women, Judith M. “Judee” von Seldeneck and Aileen K. Alexander, who built their careers in two very different eras. Each started out in public service—Judee on Capitol Hill in the ’60s and Aileen in the military in the ’90s. Each had a front row seat to observe leaders through challenging and historic times. And they share a common purpose: widening the circle of leaders for a changing world.

Presented as an open and engaging dialogue between the authors, this book is full of entertaining and uplifting anecdotes that will be useful for executives in any industry, any generation, and any context. Their forward-thinking wisdom sets a new standard of excellence for the leaders who will shape our future—including you.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – DEI

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

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Winner

The Multicultural Mindset

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Author:

Joycelyn David

How is your book helping others?

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

Winner

Designing for Diversity: Developing Inclusive and Equitable Talent Management Processes

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Author:

Binna Kandola

How is your book helping others?

Designing for Diversity is a practical, research-informed guide for managers, HR leads and departmental heads who want to improve performance assessment, promotion decisions and leadership pipelines without reinforcing bias.

Binna Kandola challenges outdated philosophies that shape traditional talent management, showing how they can unintentionally exclude high-potential individuals. Drawing on real-world examples, the book provides actionable strategies to design systems that truly recognize and nurture leadership talent.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Courage Over Fear: Harness the Power of Agency to Lead in Uncertain Times

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Author:

Kristen Kavanaugh

Co-Author Names

Mike Randolph

How is your book helping others?

Based on their past experiences as senior leaders at Tesla and their work with The Agency Initiative, Kavanaugh and Randolph present readers with The Agency Loop, a structured framework for practicing courageous leadership and navigating uncertainty with authenticity, agency, and growth. 

In practice, The Agency Loop allows readers to confront real challenges that we all face today—from the deprioritization of DEI, to political and social polarization and the rapid rise of innovation reshaping the workplace.

With practical strategies, real-world case studies, and hard-earned lessons, Courage Over Fear equips leaders to:

• Seize agency by taking control of decisions that align with their values and mission.
• Navigate uncertainty with confidence by turning fear into opportunity and chaos into clarity.
• Reject fear-driven leadership by build trust, resilience, and curiosity instead of control and division.

This book helps leaders and workers dispose of fear-based policies.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment

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Author:

Marsha Ramroop

How is your book helping others?

A manual to support and provide essential guidance to the profession on these key issues. Acknowledging that the existence of EDI procedures does not necessarily ensure their use, it focuses on demonstrating behaviours that help create, implement and enforce policies, procedures and practices to deliver inclusion. Written by Marsha Ramroop, former inaugural EDI Director at the RIBA and award-winning EDI strategist, the book targets the pain points of talent attraction and retention, public sector procurement, community engagement and inclusive design. It utilises case studies from organisations across the sector and the world with successful EDI practices, as well as testimonials of lived experiences of discrimination which provide important insight to the reader. The book takes an intersectional approach, considering not just the separate identities of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender and sexual identity, disability, neurodiversity and class but the overlap of these.

Book available for purchase:

routledge.com

2025 Awards – Innovation

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

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Winner

Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide for Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results

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Author:

Robyn M. Bolton

How is your book helping others?

Unlocking Innovation empowers corporate executives to build sustainable innovation capabilities and confidently grow revenue within established organizations. Using the ABCs of Innovation— Architecture, Behavior, and Culture, leaders learn how to join the 0.002% of ideas that achieve $1M+ in sales.

This practical playbook delivers tools leaders can implement immediately, including:
- The George Costanza Principle for how to do the opposite of your instincts and why it's essential for innovation
- Growth Gap analysis to quantify innovation's financial and strategic necessity
- Innovation Playground to objectively and transparently prioritize investments and projects
- Approaches for building shared values and priorities within and beyond the team
- Culture toolkit to build and spread a culture of innovation

Whether launching a team or building enterprise-wide capabilities, the ABCs enable leaders to build resilience and drive transformations that reshape industries.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

The Imagination Emporium: Creative Recipes for Innovation

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Author:

Duncan Wardle

How is your book helping others?

This is not your typical business book!

We are all born creative and curious, but that sense of play and imagination gets squeezed out of us by the time most of us enter adulthood.
Think of The Imagination Emporium as a cherished recipe book, a well-worn
companion that busy people, like you, can dip in and out of, filled with useful ingredients to empower you with innovative solutions for your business, be it big or small.
Why? Because Duncan Wardle believes that the skills we’re born with—Creativity, Empathy, Curiosity, and Imagination—will be some of the most sought-after skill sets of the next decade, as they will be the hardest to program into AI.
In a world where we learn a vast variety of subjects, one thing often goes untaught: “HOW to actually Innovate.”
This book is here to change that by showing you the way to innovate, generate creative ideas, and bring them to life.
Let the journey begin!

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com