Sheila Gujrathi

In The Mirror Effect, Dr. Sheila Gujrathi, a renaissance woman with talents spanning medicine, biotech, entrepreneurship and venture capital, unveils groundbreaking principles that are a lifeline for disenfranchised leaders—women, people of color and other marginalized professionals.
Based on extensive research and her own experience feeling "left out", Dr. Gujrathi provides a proven three-part roadmap for female leaders to reclaim their power and thrive authentically. Readers learn to dismantle their inner critic and step into true potential (“Hold Up Your Own Mirror: Know Thyself ”); to navigate toxic environments, understand unspoken dynamics and find their ideal ecosystem (“Reflect on Your Surroundings: Understand Your Environment”).; to master crucial negotiations, command the room and build a true support network (“Make a Life Worth Mirroring: Set Yourself Up for Success”).
Via concrete strategies and actionable insights, readers learn to create success on their own terms.

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P. Kelly Mooney

Katy Mooney

UP! is helping women get promoted, paid, and positioned for leadership. The book gives readers a full playbook across 34 chapters, grouped into 5 parts: leading yourself, owning your choices, finding the right fit, thinking bigger, and getting in the game. Each chapter gives women specific reflections and moves that turn insight into action.

Practically, that's showing up as career success and higher earnings. Readers are learning how to know their value and negotiate for it, ask for feedback that helps them get to where they want to go, cultivate champions, and make the ask when they want a raise or a new role. The result: more women are reaching the roles, pay, and influence they've earned.

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Helen Jonsen

Artificial intelligence, mass layoffs, restructuring—the disruptions keep accelerating, and adaptability is fast becoming the leadership skill this moment demands. This Kaleidoscope Career argues that women’s skills, talents, and experience don't disappear between roles—they resettle into something new every time. Their personal throughline makes sense of it all. The book introduces dozens of amazing women who continue to push the lens and find bold new images. With curiosity and resilience, they have risen to the heights of public office, the C-suite in multiple industries, founded and sold businesses, and become sought-after experts in a broad range of occupations. The book includes the Reframe Lens, a 7-step exercise that guides women from reconsidering their past to reclaiming their throughline, and the TKC Power Tools Kit to help early-, mid-, and late-career women stepping into their 3rd/Third proudly position their nonlinear careers.

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Emma Williams

Academia is big business - complete with its own glass ceiling. This book helps women researchers navigate those ivory towers with confidence, clarity, and a plan.The UNIque Guide for Women gives women in research the career toolkit they were never handed at the start of their PhD. It helps readers identify their strengths, own their achievements without apology, build visibility in their field, and make proactive career decisions - whether they stay in academia or step beyond it.

Rooted in over 20 years of working with women researchers at institutions including Imperial College London, King's College London, and the University of Cambridge, this is evidence-based career thinking wrapped in genuine understanding of what academic life is actually like. In the words of one reader: "Not just for women (but shh, don't tell everyone!), this is a thought-provoking, hand-holding and challenging guide to thinking deeply about what you want from your career, in research and beyond."

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Tonya Fitzpatrick

Tourism creates jobs and opportunity, but growth is not responsible if residents bear costs, lose cultural identity, or have little voice in decisions shaping their communities. Destination Stewardship shows how to change that. It gives tourism leaders and policymakers practical governance tools to make residents partners in decision-making, keep more visitor spending local, strengthen local ownership, reinvest tourism revenue in communities, protect culture and nature, and measure success by community well-being—not volume alone. It challenges travelers to rethink how they show up in someone else’s home: where they spend, whose stories they honor and what they leave behind. Destination Stewardship Center founder Jonathan Tourtellot titled his review “The First True Book on Destination Stewardship.” The book turns stewardship into a roadmap for responsible tourism growth that advances local agency, cultural integrity, shared prosperity and places worth living in as well as visiting.

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Amanda Ho

Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality is a strategic guide for senior leaders in travel, tourism, and hospitality who want to align profitability with purpose and deliver proven results for business, community, and planet. Combining real-world examples with global best practice, it provides the frameworks, steps and tools for designing regenerative strategies that strengthen both organizational performance and destination resilience.

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Brieane Olson

Co-Created helps business leaders, marketers, entrepreneurs, and professionals become more successful by providing a practical framework for building brands and organizations that stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. Drawing from Pacsun's transformation, CEO Brieane Olson demonstrates how co-creation with customers, creators, and communities can drive innovation, strengthen brand loyalty, and fuel sustainable growth. Readers learn how to embrace collaboration, align business strategy with purpose, and make decisions based on real-time cultural insights. The book also offers actionable strategies for leading organizational change, fostering authentic partnerships, and creating meaningful community impact while achieving measurable business results. Whether reinventing an established company or launching a new venture, readers gain practical tools to transform cultural connection into long-term business success.

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Melissa M. Reeve

Hyperadaptive helps the people inside organizations who are living through AI change and feeling the fatigue of it. Most AI rollouts fail. Licenses get bought, tools get announced, and nothing really changes, which burns out teams and erodes trust. This book gives leaders a clear, humane path to make AI adoption stick without grinding their people down. It translates enterprise AI from hype into a step-by-step operating model, with checklists, decision aids, and real examples of what works and what breaks. The result is less chaos, less change fatigue, and more durable capability. As the fastest-growing enterprise roles, AI Transformation Lead and Chief AI Officer, take shape with no established playbook, Hyperadaptive gives these leaders and their teams a shared language and a way forward. The book lands with the promise of using AI to further the triple bottom line - not only running business for profit, but for the benefit of people and the planet.

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Gregory P. Shea

Paul Brown, André Kotzé

Rising from Ground Zero presents the story of the FDNY, a proud, long standing, and widely respected organization that suffered intense systemic shock on September 11, 2001. Using over 90 hours of never-before-published author-conducted responder interviews, mainly FDNY firefighters, this book relates the story of the organization's transformation, how it battled through the crisis, managed the aftermath, and constructed the future. The interviews provide provide the basis for lessons (often starkly concrete) offered by the authors to all those, especially leaders, facing crisis or seeking fundamental organizational change. The book helps readers to see, learn, and apply lessons in crisis management, leading in prolonged hard times, and succeeding in organizational change.

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Ken Taylor

Working in Slippers helps business leaders build companies that are more profitable and productive while improving employees' quality of life and reducing turnover. Ken Taylor helped scale a startup from three people to a multi-million dollar operation, all without ever renting office space. The book is a practical guide to making remote work actually work for companies, teams, and the people in them. Readers learn how to hire and manage top remote talent, create a high-performance remote culture, and put essential systems in place. Companies can cut office costs, hire the best people from anywhere, and reach talented candidates who can't commute, including caregivers and people with disabilities. It's a roadmap for rethinking how and where work gets done, so leaders can build a more competitive company that works for everyone, everywhere.

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Norman Wolfe

Jane Wolfe

Leading the Living Organization helps leaders navigate today's increasingly complex business environment by replacing outdated, command-and-control leadership models with a more human-centered approach. Through an engaging business parable, the book demonstrates how organizational performance is shaped not only by strategy and processes, but by culture, relationships, and the shared context that drives behavior. Readers follow a CEO's journey as she learns practical skills for fostering collaboration, navigating uncertainty, resolving conflict, and building resilient teams. Each chapter concludes with key learning points and reflection questions, enabling readers to immediately apply the concepts within their own organizations. By viewing organizations as living systems rather than machines, leaders gain a new framework for creating workplaces where people are empowered to grow, innovate, and contribute to lasting success. The result is a practical guide that helps leaders strengthen c

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