Does your confidence lag behind your capability? Trying to compensate for self-doubt and overthinking can be exhausting, and you might find yourself holding back from opportunities that could be transformational. But in a complex, uncertain world, you know you can’t afford to be over-confident either.
Julie Smith has spent decades coaching some of the world’s top leaders in the fine art of humble confidence. Now she’s bringing her easy-to-use, confidence-building tools to help YOU find YOUR confidence – in just 6 minutes!
Are you short-changing your digital agency with poor financial management?
If you want to grow your profits, to be confident about your cashflow and ultimately to scale successfully, you need to become financially mature. And the bigger you become, the more this matters. But what does good financial management look like for your agency?
You have a distinctive vision for your business, which means you need a distinctive financial plan and benchmarks to get you there. And that means making finance a core part of your business, not a support function. Stop comparing yourself to other businesses, start getting clear on what results you want and confident about how to get them.
Paul Barnes has been helping digital agencies achieve this for years: discover his simple methodology and scorecard, and start your own journey to financial maturity.
“This book asks all the questions you need to consider as an agency owner” – Karen L Reyburn, CPA Owner of The Profitable Firm Ltd
Paul Barnes is the Managing Director of accountancy firm and outsourced finance function, MAP, based in the UK.
His award wins include Xero Most Valuable Professional, Manchester Young Financial Professional and Xero’s Most Innovative Firm.
He is regularly found at Digital Agency events in the UK speaking about Agency Maturity, Growth and Financial Management.
** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **
Have you ever seen a competitor get great headlines and thought, ‘Hey! Why wasn’t that us?’
- Get insider secrets to find out how to set your business apart and cut through the noise, using media coverage
- How to prepare your business to become a go-to authority for journalists from day one
- The end-to-end process of getting media coverage, demystified
- How to align media relations with your growth strategy and scale coverage
Included: An invaluable media relations toolkit with actionable templates, scripts and cheat sheets for transformational results
FELICITY COWIE is a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organisations and former BBC News and Panorama journalist. She’s worked on 100,000 story pitches from both sides and now makes her insider secrets available to YOU…
“A must-read for founders. This is truly a game-changing guide” Eileen Burbidge MBE
Discover what helps financial professionals stay ethical—and the unexpected forces that threaten to derail us.
Why do smart, capable and caring financial professionals sometimes make ethical mistakes? In this groundbreaking work, a seasoned financial services lawyer joins forces with a neuropsychologist to expose the hidden psychological currents and power dynamics that threaten to drive high-stakes ethical failures. Through riveting case studies of real-world frauds and moral crises, they take you beneath the surface of everyday decisions to reveal the invisible forces that can compromise even the most principled professionals.
This isn’t abstract ethical theory. It’s a practical roadmap that reveals:
- How ethical breaches actually occur in real-world scenarios
- Why scandals persistently plague financial services
- The common psychological blind spots that leave everyone vulnerable
- Concrete strategies that will transform integrity from aspiration to deliberate practice
Whether you’re a veteran adviser, team leader, or rising professional, this book provides essential tools to build resilience against ethical failure. It will help you safeguard your career, reputation and the integrity of your industry.
** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **
‘A really powerful book.’ – Bruce Daisley
Simple tools, extraordinary results.
Everything we’re learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the pen and the page.
Exploratory writing – writing for ourselves, not for others, writing when we don’t know exactly what it is we want to say – is one of the most powerful and lightweight thinking tools we have at our disposal. It’s also been, until now, one of the most overlooked.
But the world’s most influential leaders are increasingly using the techniques in this book to support the key skills of the 21st century – self-mastery, creativity, focus, solution-finding, collaboration – and so can you.
Alison Jones has been helping business leaders identify and articulate what matters over a 30-year career in publishing and as a coach. The founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast and community, she is passionate about the power of writing to change ourselves and the world.
“If you’re brilliant at what you do, why are you still undercharging?”
You’re smart, experienced, and get incredible results for your clients. But if you’re still charging by the hour, underpricing your value, and ending each month exhausted and underpaid… something’s broken — and it’s not your work ethic.
Fearless Pricing is the no-fluff pricing guide for coaches, consultants, and freelancers who are tired of trading time for money. Using the powerful MONEY framework, business coach Robin Waite shows you how to shift your mindset, build irresistible offers, master sales conversations, position yourself as a premium provider, and take full ownership of your value — without compromise.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
- Break free from imposter pricing and self-doubt
- Design offers that reflect your true worth
- Sell with confidence (without sounding “salesy”)
- Attract better clients and charge more with ease
- Build a pricing model that works for you
It’s time to stop surviving and start thriving. Because fearless pricing isn’t about charging more — it’s about finally getting paid what you’re truly worth.
2026 International Book Awards Finalist
Flip the Script on Failure
By exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life’s tripping hazards. It’s time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.
Dr. Melisa Buie is a problem-solver, lean leader and thought-challenger with 30+ years of experience in industry, government and academia. She can often be found hunting opportunities for improvement in manufacturing or playing with data.
Keeley Hurley is a squirrel-herding multipotentialite who has spent her career in the laser industry, always striving to leave the role, people, company, and industry better than she found it.
Noël Kreidler is an Associate Director of Career Development at the Santa Clara University Career Center and has 30+ years of work experience in talent acquisition, human resources, and career services.
The cookbook for a better working life
From sustained energy to improved focus and mood, each chapter in this extraordinary cookbook pairs the latest nutritional research with practical culinary applications, offering readers scientifically backed recipes designed to address the challenges they face in their day-to-day lives.
Whether you need a morning boost, an afternoon pick-me-up or a calming meal after a stressful day, you will have a deeper understanding of why certain foods can enhance your mental and physical states. This is more than just a collection of recipes; it’s a tool to help you make mindful, informed decisions about your diet. Blending culinary expertise with scientific rigor, this cookbook equips you with the knowledge and recipes to nourish both your body and mind.
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
‘This book will transform the way you lead’ – Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of Energize, international Keynote Speaker and award-winning Coach.
To be the kind of leader that inspires others to grow, you need to embody the timeless principles that allow you to evolve and elevate continuously.
In our unpredictable and uncertain world, where the only constant is change, your commitment to evolution isn’t just a personal advantage — it’s an organizational necessity. So, keep evolving, because every new version of you offers fresh perspectives, richer experiences, and greater resilience. And in that continual evolution, you’ll find not just success but a deeper, more meaningful form of leadership.
TALES FROM THE ‘INDIANA JONES OF CULTURAL ADVENTURES’…
From New York to Beijing, Paris to Juba, Moscow to Mexico City, Ken Pasternak’s distinguished career as a banker, management consultant, executive educator, author and keynote speaker has provided a wealth of experience with people and organizations internationally. In this book he shares some of the most memorable stories from his wide-ranging travels and his many encounters with different cultures, and draws out truths that still apply today in both life and business.
‘Inspiring!… Stories that pack profound insights… A great read for the fundamentals of business.’
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
A former Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Vice President at Citibank, Ken’s unique background combines experience in executive development, management consulting, institution building and corporate banking.
He is the co-author of Managing Your Strengths and Performance at the Limit, Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing.
