Everyone who holds a position of leadership, regardless of their experience or scale, has five key Vantage Points from which they can build positive momentum and high performance. In Vantage Points: how to create a culture where employees thrive, author Paula Leach introduces these and provides highly practical examples of how leaders can use Vantage Points in their daily approach to optimise their unique position and lead teams of inspired and successful people.

The book invites leaders everywhere to consciously broaden their awareness via the exploration of the Vantage Points. With this heightened awareness, great leaders can learn to focus their attention on their two primary jobs: 1. Creating clarity and 2. Getting out of the way and creating space for individuals and teams to thrive. Vantage Points is a resource designed to support leaders in becoming more intentional in their actions and to be more human centred with their interventions to enable and celebrate the shared collective endeavour of their team. Think of this as a ‘return to leadership’ and the author as your coach.

The book is packed full of stimulating ideas and insightful opinions that leaders and executives can use as a very practical toolkit for building their leadership style. Paula shares cases from her professional life and presents practical ideas for creating clarity in a simple way. Her advice reshapes your leadership approach, shifts your behaviours, and facilitates your transformation. The impact and outcomes will unlock the potential to enable you and your teams to prosper and thrive.

Do you ever feel there should be more to running a business than generating profits? Do you wonder why you work so hard, yet still feel that something is missing?

At a time when the world is recovering from a global pandemic, facing ongoing climate and equality crises, and now reeling from major international conflicts, many business leaders are beginning to re-evaluate their purpose – on both a personal and a professional level.

In this uniquely honest and ground-breaking book, entrepreneur Andrew Thornton and coach Eudora Pascall propose a better way of being in business. Putting The Heart Back Into Business provides a blueprint for companies to empower people to truly be themselves, harness their strengths and individuality, and puts people and planet first, while trusting that profit will still follow.

With the inspiring story of the transformation that took place in a multicultural North London supermarket as a backdrop, Andrew and Eudora demonstrate the huge impact and positive difference that running a heart-centred business can make on the lives of the people you work with and the world you live in too.

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.

Uche Ezichi was an optimistic, upbeat individual pursuing his dreams - when one day he found that he couldn’t get out of bed. He was suffering from burnout, trapped in a downward spiral and feeling like a cheat for choosing not to continue with his dreams.

Uche made an effort to fight back and regain control of his life – and Count the Cost is packed with the lessons he learnt along the way. He explains the value in counting the cost of your dreams, and takes readers through his five key rules for sustainable success - recognise, realise, rest, review and (re)launch.

Count the Cost is a must-read for anyone looking to power up their life and embark on a journey of sustainable success. An international executive coach, speaker and facilitator, Uche works to build resilience and behavioural change in organisations.

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.

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.

We need to deconstruct the past in order to understand the present – and everything from slavery to the ‘discovery’ of America has had a profound impact on the White thinking that still dominates today.

In his book, World Cup winning footballer and anti-racism activist, Lilian Thuram investigates how our past has impacted the present and examines how we can move forward inclusively in order to challenge White thinking.

In White Thinking, Thuram builds on academic research and his own personal experience to show the damage caused by racial thinking. He invites White people to take the unfamiliar step of considering their race, acknowledging that being White impacts the way they see the world.

Racism is seen across sport, education, politics and more – and Thuram includes examples from his time in the public eye as an international footballer to demonstrate what still needs to change. He presents a new way forward – one that involves acknowledging the past, addressing the way things are, and helping to create an inclusive future liberated from White thinking.