
Winner
From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships: Navigating life's troubled waters with resilience and hope
Rhona Morrison
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.
Finalist
My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success
Antonio Garrido
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.
















