Now, more than ever before, the world needs compassionate leaders. Drawing upon a wide range of case-studies and extraordinary stories, this brilliantly motivational, user-friendly, and highly practical book offers a one-stop guide to securing ‘the best for all’ through Compassionate Leadership.  

Manley Hopkinson has led teams to success in the world’s most challenging environments. Having skippered a crew in the world’s toughest yacht race 32,000 miles around the globe, served as an Officer in the Royal Navy, and set a record for the first skiing race to the Magnetic North Pole, he has led every kind of team possible. And it is his belief, that anyone can do the same.  

Compassionate Leadership is a comprehensive, life-changing, and life-fulfilling guide to developing actions and attitudes that are applicable across all situations and relationships.

Braver Leaders in Action explains why it is vital for ordinary leaders to be brave in the context of unprecedented global challenges. The key message is that we must all step up and demand more from our leaders – we cannot and must not move backwards as the world is at a tipping point.

The book contains exercises and practical examples from experienced leaders to help you to grow your awareness and understanding, boosting your potential to be a braver leader and prompting reflection on your development in eight key areas. Each area explores the braver forms of personal and corporate leadership necessary for future leaders via four related “cornerstones” derived from literature reviews, discussions with leaders, and many years of developmental and coaching conversations.

What makes a bold leader? What do they do, and how?

Bold Reinvented is the new guide to unlocking your leadership, from entrepreneur and executive leadership coach Zana Goic Petricevic. The book reveals the power of bringing your entire self to work, and the secret to unlocking bold leadership.

Zana builds on her 15 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and C-suite-execs to develop the new leadership strategies required to lead successfully in a VUCA world – with courage, consciousness, and conviction. To thrive in this environment, we need to lead from the soul, not just the mind.

Introducing her proven SOUL Framework as a blueprint for impactful leadership, the book is a step-by-step guide to empowering readers to activate their courage, embrace the unknown and unlock bold leadership:

Author, Terry Blackburn, had a turbulent adolescence. He was drinking and taking drugs at just 12 years old and left school at 16 without any qualifications, written off by his teachers as a loser who’d never achieve anything in life. Fast forward 18 years and at just 33, Terry is an award-winning entrepreneur, running seven very successful businesses in property investing, life insurance and mortgage brokerage. Yet Terry, a hands-on dad of 4, still prioritises his time to keep fit, eat well, and enjoy holidays, friends, reading, meditation and more. Terry believes that with the right mindset, anything and EVERYTHING is possible.

Be a Lion reveals how Terry achieved his impressive success, with practical steps and thought-provoking questions on how you can do the same. It helps the reader identify and avoid ‘animals’ such as ‘sloths’ and ‘hyenas’ who will drain your energy, waste your time and kill your dreams. This helpful guide also provides steps on how to think like a lion, to banish self-doubt and to supercharge your drive and determination, allowing you to make incredible transformations in business, money, relationships and health.

Written in an exuberant and conversational style, Be a Lion is organised into simple chapters packed with advice on how the ‘lion’ mindset can be applied to all areas of life such as: business and property – the power of simplicity, goal setting and continuous growth; health, wellbeing and fitness – drinking time-saving smoothies and writing daily goals and gratitude mantras; relationships – the importance of aligned values and a have-it-all mindset.

Terry provides actionable steps throughout his debut book to inspire and guide readers on their journey to creating an amazing life with zero self-doubt.

Though it may be easy to understand the concept, performance management is notoriously difficult and anxiety-inducing to deliver in practice. Each member of a team brings their own ambitions, issues skills and desires. Just how do you keep everyone engaged, motivated and on task?

The Performance Management Playbook: 15 must-have conversations to motivate and manage your people aims to take the stress and the mistakes out of management.

The work of human motivation and engagement expert, Hedda Bird, this practical book takes readers step by step through key management tasks and responsibilities. It will help you move from anxiety-ridden one-off appraisals to more rewarding regular and meaningful conversations about performance.

This game-changing book:

• Provides practical tools, actions and conversation guides to help you handle poor performance, set targets, give feedback, set goals, motivate your team, develop yourself.
• Outlines how to interpret corporate strategies into effective team targets and action plans that actually get the results you want.
• Includes real word examples drawn from a mix of global and local organisations of all shapes and sizes and from sectors as varied as financial services, transport, central and local government, mining, healthcare and construction.

No matter the performance management challenge you face, help is at hand. This book makes it easy to dip in, find answers and develop great performance conversations with your team.

Most organisations and leaders do their best to be ethical and value based. With workplace policies and wellbeing initiatives designed to celebrate and create a ‘golden’ culture.

Healthy Leadership and Organisations: Beyond the Shadow Side reveals how too often workplace initiatives and policies overlook the fact that we all have a ‘shadow’ side and can, on occasion behave badly. Most of us indulge rarely or briefly, followed by remorse but sometimes these behaviours can become ingrained in organisational roles, and cultures causing untold damage to the business and people who work there.

Too often this tendency and behaviour is not named or acknowledged and inevitably interventions to improve wellbeing and change the culture fail as a result.

Clinical psychologist Anna Eliatamby’s game-changing book shows that only by acknowledging and tackling ‘shadow’ behaviours can a culture and workplace truly flourish. Included are perspectives, from other experts.

As businesses grapple to get to grips with the post-pandemic normal—hybrid working, supply issues and staff shortages—an engaged and loyal workforce has become a critical must have.

The Leadership Star: A Practical Guide to Building Engagement sets out a proven methodology tried and tested across three continents in some of the world’s largest financial businesses.

Developed by Brian Hartzer in the crucible of a number of demanding leadership challenges in the financial sector, the five points of the Leadership Star help crack the code on what leaders can do personally to build high engagement:

• Care: Show you care about people as individual human beings, and that you care about outcomes
• Context: Give people meaning by helping them to understand the purpose of the organisation and why what they do matters
• Clarity: Tell people what’s expected of them in terms of their role, outcomes and behaviours – what good looks like, and what great looks like
• Clear the Way: Help knock down the barriers that hold people back
• Celebrate: Recognise individual contributions and success, creating a powerful feedback loop for performance and engagement.

This important book also includes guidance on growing as a leader and tips on how to communicate effectively—particularly when you need your messages to reach into every corner of a large organisation. It also includes a timely chapter on how to lead and keep people engaged during a time of crisis.

The Leadership Star is a must read for everyone who wants to help their team be the best they can be.

Change has to start with leaders before businesses can begin to make a positive impact in the world. The Fourth Bottom Line outlines the essential skills every manager will need in order to lead a business and a make lasting impact in society.

It's a book for anyone looking to become a more caring and compassionate leader and build a leadership legacy to be proud of. The outdated idea of a distant and commanding manager won’t work in an organisation that is trying to make the world a better place. Putting empathy and compassion at the very core of leadership is essential for success in business.

Paul Hargreaves is a B-Corp ambassador and the founder of one of the UK’s first B Corporations. He is a professional speaker who works to inspire leaders and businesses to find their purpose, challenge the status quo, and change the world.

In The Fourth Bottom Line, Paul reveals his fifty essential qualities every leader needs in order to drive positive change. Each topic is packed with useful tips and daily exercises to train up your skills, build healthy habits and become the leader you have always wanted to be – including traits like self-discipline, honesty, authenticity and vulnerability.

In a complex and fast-moving world, AQ is our ability to provide elevated answers, to emotionally connect, explain, predict, and achieve results. If we shape our answers in the right way we can command attention, capture the imagination and withstand critical examination.

Answer Intelligence: Raise your AQ is a book about six types of answers: story, metaphor, theory, concept, procedure, and action. Dr Glibkowski shows how we can elevate our answers to influence and communicate more effectively using five High AQ practices to provide the right type and combination of answers in any given context.

Helps leaders recognise the negative aspects which might affect their organisation and prevent it achieving its goals. It sets out how organisations can overcome challenges, turn negatives into positives and transform their company’s culture for the better.

Softening the Edge is an insightful new book from millennial leader Mimi Nicklin that takes a long hard look at the impact on our lives of the worsening “empathy deficit”. Empathy levels have fallen by a staggering 40% in ten years – according to a longitudinal study by the University of Michigan, so this book is part business tool, part corporate culture guide and part social eye opener.