The world is changing, and so must our understanding of leadership. Through the stories of trailblazing female leaders, discover what leadership can look like and how you can become a catalyst for change.

In Leading Our Way, renowned executive and author Gaia van der Esch shares an inspiring collection of leadership stories from seven iconic women around the world. Stories that explore new leadership models, concepts and tools, to inspire action and solve global challenges.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Christiana Figueres, Gitanjali Rao, Becky Sauerbrunn, Diane von Furstenberg, Tawakkol Karman, Comfort Ero and Gloria Steinem, this book examines key trends in leadership, and in how female leaders from across the globe are redefining its meaning, surfacing essential patterns and ideas to re-imagine our present and future.

An inspiring and essential new exploration of leadership, Leading Our Way is a must read for both men and women in leadership positions and those who aspire to them. A stepping-stone to build your purpose, find inspiration, and lead in your own way.

Fearless, innovative, driven and daring. These are the qualities of a disruptor: a business that is willing to take risks to achieve incredible success.

In The Upside of Disruption, renowned disruption thinker and best-selling author, Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges.

Terence shares future-ready insights and tools for leaders to get started with today and prepare their organisations for tomorrow. He explains why so many of us continually overestimate the risks of bold decisions while underestimating the downsides of standing still for too long in an increasingly complex and volatile world.

Happiness at work matters. But what does happiness mean? How can managers measure it and create more of it? And what happens to organizations when they get happiness right?

New book Happy Economics demonstrates the proven links between happiness and financial success. It provides a framework for creating happy teams and organisations, including practical assessments on where we’re going wrong and a roadmap to sustainable improvement, and explains exactly why they're needed.

You can expect to find advice and answers to questions like:

• What is happy economics, why is it important, and how could this new way of thinking improve our productivity, growth, and reputation?
• What is a corporate happiness plan and why should every business have one?
• What is the role of leadership in delivering a happy workplace and where are businesses going wrong with their engagement and recognition strategies?
• What’s missing in current workplace wellbeing initiatives, and what happens when they’re created with employee happiness at the centre?
• How to recruit, retain and develop the right people and build happy organisations fit for the future of work.

So many of us grapple with self-doubt. Perhaps you’re an exhausted achiever? You’re delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. You’re compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.
Or perhaps you’re feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.
This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

The Leader’s Guide to Resilience is your essential toolkit to build authentic strength within your business, so you can thrive in a changing and challenging world.

Resilience is the core of growth and regrowth. It is what contributes most to the advancement of your organisation and your role as leader. Your personal resilience, and that of your teams, organisation and broader community network, must be actively nurtured to give you the tools to face anything that comes your way.

This book will give you clear, effective and adaptable methods to initiate your first steps in building resilience, as well as advanced practical ways to refine, develop and future-proof your progress once on the path.

Whatever life throws at you, resilience will help you bounce back.

Studies show that 80% of us are increasingly pressured to be productive rather than creative at work. Sparking Success uncovers the importance of creativity as a tool for innovation and demonstrates how it can be a driving factor for success. In order to adapt to fast-moving trends and disruptions in the modern business landscape, you need to spark your creative outlook.

In Sparking Success author Adam Kingl profiles the business leaders who are redefining themselves as creative pioneers. From media powerhouses such as Pixar and Disney to major manufacturers such as Bosch and Panasonic, this book shows the universal importance of creativity for business leaders across the world. Each of the chapters poses a challenge or opportunity that will help you tap into an innovative mindset, before offering fascinating insights from leaders across the creative industries. Discover how you can become a dynamic, creative and empathetic leader by Sparking Success. 

The Next Leadership Team, is the product of a ten-year research program into how different organisations have successfully built, organised, managed and motivated leadership teams for their own unique set of circumstances – and how others have got it wrong. It goes beyond academic theory to unpack the human element of leadership, examining issues such as boardroom diversity, demographics, power dynamics and valuable skillsets, and explores what could be set to change, to enable leaders and organisations to future-proof their strategy.

Written by internationally recognised authorities on CEO and leadership topics, Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo, The Next Leadership Team is illustrated with real-life examples and interviews with CEOs, C-Suite executives, and top head-hunters. Exclusive insights from executives working in well-known organisations including Allianz, Amazon, Danone, Ferrari, HSBC, Huawei, Microsoft, Nestlé and Zurich Insurance help bring the ideas life, before the authors distil the lessons down into practical advice that leaders can use in their own business.

This book is an invaluable resource for CEOs and senior executives who need to build and develop leadership teams in a way that will drive success in the organizations they lead. It is also highly relevant to head-hunters to stay ahead of the competition in the appointments of members of senior leadership teams around the world.

The Solutionists sets out what it takes to join the new generation of entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders transforming business to create a more sustainable society. Using a change blueprint, this book coaches you through the steps, mindsets and strategies that will put your organisation at the forefront and help you take personal ownership of sustainability solutions.

With an inspiring selection of stories from leading entrepreneurs and organisations, this book illustrates how sustainability solutionists are paving the way to solving the biggest crisis our planet has ever faced whilst driving business innovation and growth. Including plant-based food sources, net-zero technologies and circular platforms, these stories demonstrate how sustainable disruption can transform your business, regardless of size or industry.

The Leadership Book is the essential guide to developing effective leadership and building great teams. The book presents leadership in simple and easy to apply sections and is suitable for leaders at all levels – from new teams leaders through to CEOs, Headteachers and Commanding Officers.

In this book author Neil Jurd shows that leadership is a simple concept, which can be learned and applied by anyone willing to learn and develop the skills. The book is based on the simple idea that leadership needs to be authentic – it is about just being yourself, but with skill.

Ever feel like you aren’t Enough? Overwhelmed by too many demands? Concerned about over-consumption and the climate crisis? You’re not alone. The Art of Enough is the challenge of our age.

In a world full of pressure to be more, do more and consume more, this practical guidebook will help you find your own version of Enough. Enough is a springboard for self-belief, a healthy work pace and sustainable living, so you can move from striving to thriving.  Becky Hall helps readers to find the balance with what you have, what you need and what you consume.

We are living in a digital age, where new technologies and evolving customer expectations offer tremendous opportunities for growth, but also the threat of being left behind. Leaders need to make bold decisions – only which ones?

Disruption in Action reveals how to take on digital and win. It tells seven company stories that go to the heart of digital transformation, exploring the high-level strategy through to the operational nitty-gritty, all based on the authors’ inside experience as Europe’s leading digital transformation experts. A unique, fictionalised approach is used to dig deep into what really happens on digital projects – covering not just the tech, but also the people and politics, including the blunders, breakthroughs, and inter-personal dynamics that typical case studies gloss over. For example, what makes some leaders act and others not? Why does change so often meet internal resistance, and how do you deal with that? What does it mean to organise for innovation, and who has the ideas?

In Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching, author Salma Shah provides coaches, CEOs, leaders and line managers alike the invaluable tools to support employees of all backgrounds – to create psychologically safe workplace cultures where under-represented and minority groups feel heard and thrive.

‘Coaching the lived experience through a wider systemic lens of inclusion, belonging, equity and diversity’

Packed with practical tips, case studies and easy-to-follow exercises, this book helps develop truly inclusive coaching skills – from reframing resilience to embracing vulnerability, confronting unconscious biases to acknowledging privileges and starting difficult conversations.