Research suggests that up to 50% of people are introverts, and yet so much conventional leadership wisdom focuses on developing people’s ‘extrovert’ qualities in order to succeed at work.

But what if introversion isn’t something to “fix”, and being quiet could actually make you a better leader?

In a world where extroverted leaders often dominate the conversation, new book Quiet Leader offers a refreshing perspective. It empowers introverted individuals to embrace their unique leadership strengths such as humility, good listening, being reflective and staying calm.

Quiet Leader helps introverts in business understand the value they add and how to overcome the extrovert bias they might encounter. Rather than trying to change personalities, Quiet Leader helps introverts use their natural strengths to bring out the best in colleagues and team members and give everyone - extroverts included - a better understanding of how to become better leaders themselves.

Author Sissel Heiberg, a quiet leader herself, with close to 20 years of experience in large corporations, has witnessed that the loudest voices often dominate discussions and self-promote which can lead to misguided decisions and the selection of unsuitable leaders. This has fuelled her passion to raise awareness about organisational dynamics, the bias against introverts and to help organisations better utilise the right skills at the right time to enhance overall team performance.

Building on research and interviews, each chapter focuses on an introvert strength, explaining why it is a valuable leadership trait and includes a toolkit with tangible examples, strategies and ideas for using this strength in the workplace. Written for both introverts and extroverts, this book helps readers develop, build and use these skills at work.

Quiet Leader is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their leadership effectiveness while staying true to their authentic selves. Whether an experienced leader or just starting out, this book provides valuable insights and motivation to help readers succeed in leadership.

How can we create working environments where people can not only thrive, but also recover well, so they can sustainably continue to thrive again and again?

The key, says professor and former Olympic finalist Dr Susan Goldsworthy, is creating “secure bases” that provide a safe environment where each individual feels free to take risks without fear of failure or judgement. This trust-based foundation encourages exploration of potential and development of self-awareness, which helps individuals navigate obstacles more effectively, handle external pressures and foster a culture of confidence and innovation.

In her new book Care, Dare, Share: The Secure Base Coach, Rev. Dr Susan Goldsworthy draws up her experience of elite sport, neuroscience and 20 years working with businesses to create an accessible hands-on guide for leaders. It equips leaders with practical tools and strategies to cultivate sustainable, high-performance cultures where people feel supported by fostering conscious choice, constructive challenge and courageous communication.

Care, Dare, Share emphasises the importance of human connection as a critical driver for success. It champions empathy, understanding, and genuine collaboration, strengthening relationships in teams and organisations. These connections, built on mutual trust and shared purpose, enable teams to unlock their highest potential and work together more effectively, even in the face of adversity.

Care, Dare, Share offers a variety of exercises and reflective questions that helps coaches and leaders to apply secure base principles. It serves as a springboard for personal and professional growth, allowing leaders, coaches and HR teams to tailor the tools to meet the specific needs of their organisations.

Rewriting Your Leadership Code encourages us to look behind the mirror at how our childhood experiences secretly influence the way we make decisions, behave, and feel about ourselves at work, and crucially shows how we can channel their impact to our advantage.

The 9-5 routine has become more complicated for business leaders, with 74% saying that the number of decisions they make every day has risen over the past five years. Leaders are having to rely on their instincts to cope with the increased pressure and workload. But by running on automatic, we risk bringing unreliable traits and subconscious biases to the surface.

Written by leadership expert Nik Kinley and organisational psychologist Shlomo Ben-Hur, this new book draws upon decades of research and proven neurological and psychological mechanisms to show how our past experiences shape our adult tendencies and why early experiences of stress, conflict and friendship can create blind spots for our leadership patterns.

From how we act in meetings and manage conflict to whether we respect our boss and can handle change, our childhood plays a pivotal part in how we lead our teams and organisations when under pressure. By understanding these triggers and traits, managers can be more aware of when they’re running on automatic and ensure their actions are intentional, relevant, and effective.

The 9-5 routine has become more complicated for business leaders, with 74% saying that the number of decisions they make every day has risen over the past five years. Leaders are having to rely on their instincts to cope with the increased pressure and workload. But by running on automatic, we risk bringing unreliable traits and subconscious biases to the surface.

Written by leadership expert Nik Kinley and organisational psychologist Shlomo Ben-Hur, this new book draws upon decades of research and proven neurological and psychological mechanisms to show how our past experiences shape our adult tendencies and why early experiences of stress, conflict and friendship can create blind spots for our leadership patterns.

From how we act in meetings and manage conflict to whether we respect our boss and can handle change, our childhood plays a pivotal part in how we lead our teams and organisations when under pressure. By understanding these triggers and traits, managers can be more aware of when they’re running on automatic and ensure their actions are intentional, relevant, and effective.

Businesses face unprecedented challenges with technology, supply chain issues, economic uncertainty, and political instability. To avoid being overwhelmed by the chaos and outmanoeuvred by their competitors, leaders must learn how to turn disruption into opportunity and instil strategic thinking into their teams, cultures, and management styles.

Every leader can learn to be a stronger strategic thinker. From mental agility and pattern recognition to visioning and political savvy, this book digs deep into the six disciplines of strategic thinking that separate good and great leaders, and offers the tools required to build this skill into a competitive edge in a VUCA environment.

A comprehensive, practical, and actionable guide to strategic thinking, this essential new book offers a wealth of insights and tools for leaders at all levels to help them win the game of business – strategically.

Dr Audrey Tang offers a step change in how leaders and organisations should approach wellbeing in their organisations. She recommends techniques and strategies to banish burnout and create a culture of psychological safety and inclusion to keep teams feeling valued, motivated and energised. With lots of exercises to practise regularly, this book will help you make lasting positive, transformational change.

The Leader’s Guide to Wellbeing completes Dr Tang’s ‘head–heart–gut’ series of books (see also The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness and The Leader’s Guide to Resilience) and supports wellbeing as a core function of leadership. It offers the leader – and their teams – a clear understanding of what wellbeing is, as well as practical ways to create a culture of wellbeing within the organisation and the individual.

Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big speeches that matter: it is also those critical, spur-of-the-moment situations for which we cannot prepare.

A prospective client asking unexpected questions during a sales pitch, a teacher singling you out for an answer during a class, a high-pressure meeting with senior executives at work, or even a heartwarming toast to deliver on the spot. All are fraught scenarios that might cause you to freeze up. The pandemic has only boosted this fear, by stripping the spontaneity from communication during lockdown, and then changing the communication landscape.

In this invaluable guide, Matt Abrahams – Stanford University lecturer and creator of the hit podcast, Think Fast, Talk Smart – provides a six-point methodology that will enable you to cut through the anxiety arising from these stressful, impromptu circumstances to create and deliver crisp, compelling and calm communication.

Remember when talking about money was taboo? Times have changed and in our times, with so many radical and disruptive changes to the economy, the role of the entrepreneur now embedded at the centre of so much societal and technological change, and digital currencies changing the way we think about exchange, money has become a vital, insistent of conversation for everyone. All of us acknowledge it matters desperately; yet so few of us really understand it.

The press and social media are awash with rags to riches stories, stories of kitchen table businesses that become multi-million-pound enterprises. Stories of teenagers and young adults investing in digital currencies from their bedrooms. On the flip side of these aspirational stories there is the reality of the everyday person who simply wants to understand what to and what not to do with their money. Should they save or invest, if they invest - what in, if they save - what for? Should they buy a home or rent, should they live for the moment or live for retirement. How does having credit provide more credit and would insurance be the best bet if all falls around you and what the hell is APR anyway?

Finance and money are topics we all wish we learnt at school but instead we find ourselves having to 'learn on the job', having to do deep investigations and 'trust' the advice from online experts. There must be a better way and a better place to go to for this insight and here we have it, courtesy of two authors who have known hardship and huge success - "What they should have taught you about money, finance and investment at school' to fill that void.

The disruptive moment in which we find ourselves living demands that we are our own agents of change. The Seven Games of Leadership is a guide for readers through seven key phases of personal and professional development, with the aim not of climbing a corporate ladder but of finding true and lasting satisfaction in what they do.

It encourages the realization that revolutionary change is not about destroying the current status quo, but about co-designing and rebuilding different paths for individuals to thrive, and go on to have a positive impact on society at large. The objective is to allow people to identify a career that is better aligned not only with their individual values, but with a broader purpose centred on a wider sense of humanity and sustainable prosperity for all.

The Seven Games of Leadership provides the tools and practical advice you need to reassess your priorities and take the steps necessary to refocus your life, your career and the issues of the world around you.

In Crazy Busy acclaimed psychologist Thijs Launspach examines why we often work ourselves to the bone and what we can do to prevent this. He explains how to cope with stress and create more peace and calm in your life. He draws on the latest scientific knowledge, the methods used by experts and the stories told by those who have learned the hard way what stress can do to both body and mind. All to provide you with the answer to the question: how can you free yourself from a life of stress?

A full diary and no time to think; the feeling that you are always playing catch-up and never quite hitting the mark: our lives today are almost invariably crazy busy. Being busy is one of the hallmarks of the modern era. But the pressure is taking its toll on us.

The number of burnouts has risen dramatically over the past ten years. In fact, it has now reached epidemic proportions: approximately one in seven of all workers suffers badly from stress or has been forced to take a break from work because of stress-related complaints. And even if you don’t reach the actual burnout stage, stress can still make your life a lot less enjoyable.

Why are our lives so hectic? Have we all become workaholics? Why are we so susceptible to FOMO (the Fear Of Missing Out)? And most importantly, what can you do to cope with the stress in your life and prevent a burnout?

• Do you find yourself rushing to get things finished more than once a week?
• Do others often offer you well-intentioned advice on ‘how to slow things down a little’.
• Do you ever suspect that the stress you feel prevents you from being as happy as you would like to be?
• Are you more addicted to your smartphone than you would care to admit? Is it the first thing you reach for when you wake up in the morning?
• Do you often find yourself longing to stop and take a break from it all?

If your answer to one or more of these questions is ‘Yes’, then this is the book for you.

Mark Simmonds' life was mapped out from the very beginning: go to university, climb the corporate ladder, marry and have children. But life isn't so easy, and success is hard to manage. After making what seemed like the right move in his career, Mark suffered from increasing levels of stress and anxiety, leading to his nervous breakdown.

As the ground he'd stood on for years started to crumble, Mark did something he never thought he'd do: he stepped back from his work to focus on creating a balance in his life. But then his world fell apart for a second time when his daughter, Emily, became anorexic.

Finding strength he never knew he had, Mark fought alongside Emily, both lost, both scared, but finding solace in one other.

Breakdown and Repair tells the touching tale of a father saving himself by saving his daughter.

Many leaders are especially capable ‘left brain’ thinkers, a trait that has served them well in their careers, allowing them to build strong strategic, problem-solving and goal achievement track records. And yet the challenges facing today’s workplace – the rise of remote working, the evolution of AI, the need for more emotional connection, the drive for truly inclusive cultures – increasingly require different thinking using the ‘right brain’.

Executive Coach Yda Bouvier has distilled her 25 years’ experience helping leaders use their right brain into the inspiring new book, Leading with the Right Brain – the ultimate guide to activating right-brain thinking.

She breaks down the neuroscience behind how the left and right brain work, and provides case studies, techniques and tools that leaders, coaches, and employees alike can practice to engage their right brain, in order to see more, think differently and bring new insights, gain a better emotional understanding about ourselves and others and build stronger team connections – especially virtually – making remote working more fulfilling – activating the right brain is critical for our wellbeing.