Allison Hill

Your Job Won’t Love You Back helps people build meaningful, ambitious careers without allowing work to define their identity, self-worth or purpose. Drawing on more than 30 years navigating corporate leadership, marriage, motherhood and entrepreneurship, Allison Hill gives readers practical tools to rethink their relationship with work and redefine success for their current season of life. Through 12 principles and her original North Heart framework, Hill helps readers identify what matters, recognize when they are asking their careers to fulfill needs better met elsewhere, set healthier boundaries, strengthen relationships and reconnect with purpose and joy beyond professional achievement.
Rather than encouraging people to abandon ambition, the book helps them pursue it more intentionally—making career and life decisions based on their values instead of titles, promotions or external validation. Ultimately, it helps readers build lives that feel more aligned, connected and fulfilling.

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Lisa Hurley

Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life responds to one of the defining challenges of modern life: burnout normalized as success. Lisa Hurley introduces readers to her Exhalation Point framework—Know Yourself, Love Yourself, Be Yourself—a human-centered model for restoring balance without abandoning ambition. Through this framework, readers are guided to develop self-awareness, practice self-compassion, and make aligned choices that support mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Rather than offering productivity hacks, the book emphasizes sustainable self-care habits and redefines success in ways that honor one’s capacity.

Grounded in lived experience and cultural insights, Space To Exhale supports meaningful shifts in how readers engage with work and life. Its real-world impact has been recognized with a Gold Anthem Award, underscoring the book’s relevance as a timely and actionable resource for cultivating enduring work-life balance.

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Kevin Surace

The Joy–Success Cycle helps readers rethink one of the most common assumptions about achievement: that success leads to joy. Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, leadership experience, and decades of innovation, Kevin Surace argues the opposite—that joy is the catalyst for greater creativity, resilience, productivity, and long-term success. Through practical exercises and a repeatable framework, readers learn how to cultivate daily habits that strengthen purpose, overcome negative thinking, and create an upward cycle of personal and professional growth. Rather than offering motivation alone, the book provides actionable strategies that can be applied immediately in the workplace and everyday life. Whether readers are leaders, entrepreneurs, or professionals navigating constant change, The Joy–Success Cycle equips them with science-backed tools to improve performance, build stronger relationships, and find greater fulfillment by making joy the foundation—not the reward—of succe

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Hayley D Quinn

This book helps people understand themselves better, cultivate a compassionate mind and change the relationship they have with themselves so they make choices that allow them to live a thriving life and avoid burnout. It is a gentle, powerful book for anyone who has spent too long putting their own needs last. With evidence-based advice and practical steps it offers a roadmap to recognise the habits, unhelpful stories and cyclical beliefs that hold you back and keep you stuck in exhaustion, burnout, guilt and self-criticism, while guiding you to cultivate self-compassion and a new way of relating to yourself. Through four parts, this book invites you to:

Start Where You Are: get to know all parts of who you are
Explore the Possibilities: reconnect with your dreams, values and future self
Learn to Do It Differently: practise courage, self-compassion and boundaries
Find Your New Way of Being: create a values-aligned life that supports your wellbeing

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Patricia Faison Hewlin

Called “one of the world’s foremost experts on authenticity” by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Adam Grant, Dr. Hewlin is recognized internationally for developing the concept of “facades of conformity.” Her research shows 30% of employees feel pressured to create facades (not only at work!)— something Dr. Hewlin can also personally speak to as a black woman who started in the traditionally white male dominated field of banking. Drawing from more than 25 years of research and consulting experience, she introduces the concept of your “middle self:” a way to navigate the world with confidence and integrity, while balancing personal authenticity with the realities of community, workplace culture, and social expectations. Dr. Hewlin's findings arrive at a presently crucial and confusing time for many at work, in personal relationships and friendships, parents of teens, and beyond.

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Larry Robertson

The capacity to question is our greatest and yet least understood human asset. Questions give life to our curiosity. They fuel our personal growth. We problem solve and innovate through them. They’re how we find meaning and come to grasp why we matter. This is a book about your vital capacity to question. Great Question is your yield guide. It shows you how to master the art of the ask and empowers you to define, shape, and realize what you seek. It reveals the secrets of great questioning, no matter where it’s applied. Its groundbreaking research and intimate storytelling teach a kid-simple framework and show how to use it. The lessons at the core of Great Question are nothing short of the key to thriving in a deeply uncertain world – for leaders, and for every one of us.

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