**Business Book Awards 2024: Highly Commended**
Stop guessing and start using market research to build what customers actually want. If you run a small business, it’s easy to waste time and money on ideas that don’t land.
Do Penguins Eat Peaches? shows founders, freelancers and small-business owners how to use simple market research tools to understand your audience and build what sells. From customer interviews and surveys to real-world testing, including how emerging AI tools can help you research faster and smarter, this book will help you find clarity and confidence in your next business move.
From sending smart surveys and asking quality questions to desk research and the rise of social listening, this book teaches you how to discover what your customers want.
Katie Tucker is an inspirational product leader with over twelve years’ experience leading teams and delivering stand-out products and services. In 2020 she founded Product Jungle, helping hundreds of businesses understand customers better. She is also a mentor, speaker and the pen behind the popular newsletter Jungle Juice.
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
Most managers who’ve tried to deliver business change have felt frustrated and disempowered by the experience. If you want to stand up and make a difference igniting and inspiring successful change but don’t know where to start, this book is for you.
Discover why change so often fails, and how to overcome those problems and make change stick. Chartered psychologist and change expert Lucinda Carney will help you change the way you do Change, in just 6 minutes!
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***
Disruption is everywhere: it presents both great opportunities and significant threats.
Do you know how to shape your strategy to respond?
What if you had a game plan to navigate disruption?
The Disruption Game Plan presents a tried and tested framework to help senior leaders think differently about disruptive trends and emergent risks, and to act differently when making decisions, joining up thinking on innovation, risk, sustainability and strategy.
By revealing how we can more effectively deal with challenging business environments, this book will help any curious and ambitious senior leader to go beyond a short-term, fire-fighting response, and instead set out to ‘change the game’.
Ruth Murray-Webster is a consultant and expert in risk and organizational change. A former head of the Risk in the Boardroom practice for a major consultancy with extensive senior practitioner experience, Ruth now works with a wide range of public, private and third sector clients through her consultancy Potentiality UK to unlock the potential performance from uncertainty and change.
Eleanor Winton is a consultant and expert in disruption, innovation and foresight and the former head of the Future Institute for a major consultancy. She has extensive experience of working with senior teams to stimulate creative thought and action. Through her consultancy Foresightfully, Eleanor works with organizations to understand what the future might hold for them and to develop innovative strategies in response.
**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024**
You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact.
Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines.
The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, morale is low.
Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention.
Do Sweat the Small Stuff challenges you to notice and own the profound impact of your micro-interactions. To explore how your speaking and listening, your habits and your behaviours affect those around you, whether you realize or not. Finally, it reveals how to reinvent those interactions to reshape how you show up as a leader and build trusting, productive relationships with your people.
Sarah Langslow distils more than two decades of hands-on experience building effective leadership skills and behaviours in the corporate and sporting world and as an executive coach into an actionable plan for sustainable transformation.
What if the organizations we work for, volunteer for, or support had a much simpler way of understanding, measuring and maximizing the difference they make in the world? And what if we could cut through complication and put social impact at the heart of strategy?
This is easier to do than ever before, but very few organizations manage it. This is largely due to impact measurement being over-complicated, not central to strategy, and not prioritized. This book sets out to change that.
Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist
‘Read this and be the change that’s needed’ Prof Helen Pankhurst CBE
‘Here, at last, is a book that aims to change the narrative and fix the system. Every boss should have a copy.’ Kate Bassett, Financial Times
‘Joy clearly articulates the benefits of diversity and the systemic reasons it has proven elusive, but this book’s power lies in its tangible and practical solutions.’ Nathan Coe, CEO, Auto Trader Group Plc
Struggling to find ways to retain and reward women and meet your diversity targets?
Wondering why your female-led diversity initiatives are not working?
Don’t Fix Women reveals how achieving gender balance at work isn’t about ‘fixing’ the women, it’s about changing the system. Packed with simple, practical recommendations, this book provides a route-map to improve gender equality in your organization, develop a truly diverse, modern leadership culture, and reap the rewards that this brings.
Be informed: Learn from over 100 senior business leaders and CEOs about what they are doing to accelerate progress towards gender equality.
Be ahead of the game: Access research data, new tools and frameworks for your leadership kitbag.
Be the change: Discover practical actions to help you make change happen in your organization today.
As a ‘curator of confidence’, and with over 70 articles published on Forbes.com, Joy Burnford has inspired thousands of women across the globe to find their confidence. But this is only one side of the equation. Her research makes it clear that making women more confident isn’t enough: we also need to change the organizations they work for to clear the path for true gender equality.
Being able to connect deeply with other people will help you succeed and flourish at work and enhance your career or business development.
And more than this, meaningful connection with other people is what gives most of us true joy and a sense of purpose in our personal lives.
But connecting and communicating isn’t always easy. Perhaps we’re fearful of being judged or rejected, or we lack the confidence to speak out in a group, or to approach what we believe will be a difficult conversation.
In this thought-provoking and practical book, you’ll discover how connecting with yourself gives you a foundation for better relationships with others. You’ll find ideas that you can apply to one-to-one conversations, to group interactions such as networking meetings, teamworking and leadership, and in family and social settings.
As you progress through three dimensions of connection, you’ll build skills and confidence in relating to yourself and others.
‘Crafting Connection is a must-read guide to communication and building better relationships.’
Jess Annison, OBE. Jess Annison Coaching
‘… an elegant, accessible, and practical guide to creating a more meaningful, authentic life by deepening the connection you have with yourself and with others.’
Sarah Grant. Nutritional therapist, Gut Reaction
Felicity Dwyer is a facilitator, trainer, coach and speaker. She helps individuals, leaders and teams to connect and communicate, so that people feel heard and understood.
Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in Business Self Development category
Most pitches and presentations suck. Yours don’t have to.
Whenever you speak you’re not just sharing information, you’re asking your audience to buy into you and your ideas. In a world where attention is at a premium, you have to cut through the noise. Pitches and presentations aren’t something to wing. The best presenters prepare with purpose, crafting what to say and how to say it. Get it right and you will supercharge your influence, your impact and your results.
Cut-Through reveals a proven six-step process for developing your ideas and giving a winning performance. You’ll discover how to crystallise your thinking into ‘sticky’ key messages, shape them into a narrative your audience can’t ignore, then deliver your words with confidence. Packed with easy-to-implement tools and techniques, you’ll also have access to a library of powerful resources including a diagnostic scorecard, bite size videos, downloadable cheat sheets and more.
Dominic Colenso started his career as an actor, most famously playing Virgil Tracy in the Hollywood remake of Thunderbirds alongside Sir Ben Kingsley. He now works with businesses around the world, helping individuals and teams take centre stage and deliver outstanding results.
Managing people has never been harder. Remote work, AI integration, generational friction and constant change have made the job almost untenable. But at its core, managing people comes down to an ongoing series of conversations — and managers are overwhelmed by the sheer volume and variety of conversations every day. Most managers receive no management training before inheriting people to manage, and those who do often develop one or two approaches to these conversations and apply them universally. But the managers who consistently get the most from their teams are the ones who can read a situation clearly and shift their approach deliberately.
Award-winning organizational psychologist and executive coach Dr. Jake Tuber introduces the Manager Conversations Framework – a practical tool that maps eight distinct postures managers can adopt across the dimensions that matter most in any interaction.
Written for managers at every level – from first-time supervisors to senior leaders across every industry and sector – and packed with diagnostic tools, checklists and pro tips, this practical, research-backed guide has everything needed to help every manager become more effective.
This book will challenge everything you’ve been told about confidence and show you how to lead without having to change who you are.
Decoding Confidence is your go-to guide for building the kind of leadership confidence that transforms not just you, but everyone around you. It’s about getting real, digging deep, and finding the confidence you need to lead with authority and courage. Patel takes you on a journey of self-discovery helping you understand your strengths, embrace vulnerability, and cultivate a positive internal dialogue that will help you achieve your goals.
It’s not about being perfect; it’s about being impactful. With practical strategies, relatable examples, and a bonus 30-day confidence habit tracker to help you turn insights into daily action, the habits in this book will show you how to make confidence accessible and actionable, so you can show up as the leader your team needs.
