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Clearly Agile

The future is CLEAR; the future is AGILE.

Clearly Agile is more than just a book on business agility. It’s an essential guide for anyone aspiring to lead successfully in a fast-changing business world. Step into the future with confidence, equipped with the knowledge and tools to master the art of business agility and lead your organization to sustained success.

‘In Clearly Agile, Giles connects the dots of agility, guiding readers from the importance of leadership and mindset to team and enterprise agility… This book will leave you with actionable strategies to improve how your organization works – no matter what the future brings.’ Laura M. Powers,Chief Executive Chief Executive Officer, Business Agility Institute.

‘Any leader who is hoping to evolve their organization in an agile enterprise will discover actionable and impactful insights in this book.’ Scott Ambler, Co-creator of Disciplined Agile

‘Giles is well known as an excellent executive and agile coach. I am very pleased that he has shared his comprehensive knowledge in this excellent book. It covers a wide spectrum of guidance on business agility and is definitely worth a read.’ Mark Lines, Co-creator of Disciplined Agile

Giles Lindsay, CEO of Agile Delta Consulting, is a seasoned technology and Agile leader and coach with 25+ years of tech industry experience. Known for his strategic acumen in aligning technology with business goals, he has successfully scaled high-performing teams in both startups and leading enterprises, driving innovation and growth through his visionary approach and adept stakeholder management.

Closing the Influence Gap

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

Women leaders across the globe are experiencing the influence gap. They struggle to get their voice heard in meetings. They can’t get a seat at the table for the decisions that matter. It’s a systemic problem, not a problem with women.
It’s no wonder so many talented women experience imposter syndrome!

Closing the Influence Gap empowers women leaders to successfully navigate the workplace, leading their way and changing it for the better. It is a reference tool packed with practical strategies and a troubleshooting section which women can draw on daily to tackle the challenging conversations, decisions and situations they face.

It shows women how they can believe in themselves in challenging situations, helps them to get the recognition they deserve as leaders and provides them with the influencing skills they need to get their voices heard and increase their impact.

Carla Miller is a leadership coach and chart-topping podcast host who works with women in management and leadership roles to develop their careers and their confidence. Hundreds of women leaders from global companies, the public sector and charities have taken part in her Influence & Impact programme.

Choose Depth

What if depth, not speed, is the missing piece in your success?

Many of us find ourselves achieving at pace, chasing more, yet feeling less anchored. Shallow living can silently drain energy by blurring purpose, straining relationships, and leaving behind a lingering sense of emptiness.

In Choose Depth, Deboleena Dasgupta sets out an uncomfortable truth: ‘If you are restless, you haven’t touched real success.’ This book is your guide to a reset. Through a blend of timeless wisdom, neuroscience and psychology, it will help you pause, reflect on what truly matters, and reconnect with the real YOU through the everyday dilemmas of life and leadership.

Depth comes from simple daily micro-practices that turn insight into habit. Discover how to:

  • Anchor yourself in calm even when life feels chaotic
  • Balance ambition with restraint, presence, and perspective
  • Integrate clarity, courage and compassion into daily choices.

Coach Your Sales Team

If you want to turn your sales team into top performers, the secret is not to tell them what to do but to coach them so that they can think for themselves. Discover how to get the best from your people so that they – and you – succeed faster, in just 6 minutes!

Coaching Outdoors

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.

Coaching Outdoors supports practitioners to step outside and make the most of what nature can offer the coach, client, organisation and planet.
It contains essential practical advice and activities, together with engaging case studies and research – all laid out in an accessible and logical format.

Discover how to:

  • Articulate the benefits of coaching outdoors from a place of experience
  • Contract for psychological safety outdoors
  • Find resources in nature
  • Collaborate with nature as a coaching co-facilitator
  • Engage with nature when working remotely with clients

Coaching Outdoors is the first handbook specifically on the value of coaching with nature. It is an invitation to leave the fast-paced, technology-focused world and reconnect with what really matters, in an environment where we were born to thrive.

LESLEY ROBERTS BEd, MSc is an executive coach and adventurer who has been coaching outdoors since 1999. Her academic research focused on how nature can support coach and client. After 16 years with Mars Inc she founded Brave Conversations, working with global teams and individuals to unlock their potential. In 2019 she founded Coaching Outdoors to bring the benefits of partnering with nature to as many people as possible.

The Choir Effect

How do we design for connection?

A sense of belonging is not a nice-to-have but a fundamental human need. At work, at home and in our communities, belonging shapes our health, wellbeing and ability to thrive. Yet as society becomes increasingly individualized and workplaces evolve, many people are left feeling disconnected and isolated.

The Choir Effect introduces 12 practical principles for building trust, connection and belonging, drawn from scientific research, real-world examples and lived experience. Inspired by the remarkable bonding effects of communal singing, it explores what singing together reveals about human nature and translates those insights into practical tools for application in our everyday lives. Discover how to create environments where people feel safe, valued and connected, whether leading a team, strengthening personal relationships or building a community.

At a time when loneliness, polarization and social fragmentation are on the rise, The Choir Effect offers a timely and hopeful response. Combining compelling stories, accessible research and practical exercises, it provides a framework for creating shared experiences that foster trust, connection and belonging.

ChangeStories

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

‘A crucial tool for all Change Leaders.’ – Ket Patel

Organization change can be messy. Much of what matters takes place under the surface, and overlooking these hidden factors – as most change programmes do – too often results in failure and frustration. What’s the answer? More thoughtful conversation, inquiry and storytelling, which enable leaders to understand more fully what is happening under the surface in their organization and have better communication and engagement with their teams.

Based on her academic research and over 25 years of consultancy practice, Dr Susanne Evans’ ChangeStories approach enables leaders and change practitioners to have more meaningful conversations about change, create stories that can reduce resistance to change and increase engagement, and ultimately ensure the benefits of a change programme are realized.

This is a complete guide to building storytelling, inquiry and conversation into your everyday practice, including step-by-step guides, templates and case studies.

The Change Ninja Returns

**Goody Business Book Awards 2024: Self-Help – Personal Transformation Winner**

Following an unexpected and unwanted personal upheaval, Dr Tammy Watchorn, the original Change Ninja, became her own real-life case study.

She decided to test just how effective the change management and neuroscience tools she’d been using professionally might be outside the workplace, when the stakes were high, the emotions raw and a wrong decision could end in disaster.

Building on The Change Ninja Handbook’s gamified approach, Tammy’s story unfolds in parallel to you gaining fresh insights with practical tools that will equip you to navigate your own life’s challenges, from managing your emotions to making the right decision when you’ve no idea what to do next.

If you’re facing unwanted change in your life, you might be surprised to find that you already have many of the resources and skills you need, and this story and toolkit will ensure you can easily access them when needed.

Discover how to Ninja your life!

“I love this book. It’s practical, accessible, and full of humour.” – Jenny Landreth, Writer and script editor

“Read this book to find your own recipe and awaken your hidden ‘doer’.” – Margo Waldorf, Founder at Change Awards

Dr Tammy Watchorn’s experiences of leading transformational change in complex highly resistant environments led to The Change Ninja Handbook. She now focuses on writing, training, facilitating and coaching at all levels within and across organizations with a strong focus on change management, neuroscience, behaviours and resistance to change, effective delivery and productivity.

The Change Ninja Handbook

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

“An essential guide for any professional interested in understanding how to implement and influence change”
Prof. Adam Boddison, – Chief Executive, Association for Project Management

Leading change in organizations is always hard, but this original, game-based handbook will at least make it much more fun! Based on real-life case studies and reflecting the most common challenges facing any change ninja, this is a story where you get to make the decisions at each stage, and discover the impact of your choices.**

This interactive approach will appeal particularly to non-linear thinkers and those who learn best through action and application. It’s pragmatic, focusing on tips for getting people on board and on identifying small, doable ‘ninja moves’ that gain traction and build momentum by stealth.

After lots of training in things like project management, agile change and leadership, Dr Tammy Watchorn discovered none of this really helped as the focus was always on process rather than people. By understanding how people work instead, she soon found she could deliver successful change by stealth with ninja moves.

Change the Game

Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive for the benefit of the economy and society.

But how? And what does that mean for YOUR business?

This pioneering book is a route map to help leaders get started and navigate the way to leading a high-performing gender-balanced business. It features:

  • An easy-to-follow 6-step guide with practical advice and solutions
  • Case studies to illustrate how businesses like yours have implemented winning ideas
  • A compelling 5-minute pitch to inspire your team to take action

Fixing the gender gap is a key indicator of an effective leader in the 21st century, and gender balance is essential to enable transformational business growth.

Julia Muir is the award-winning Founder of the Automotive 30% Club and CEO of Gaia Innovation Ltd.