What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day’?
The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive – you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.
This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team’s performance and productivity.
Workshop Culture gives you:
- Inspiring case studies from forward-thinking and innovative teams that have found success from a workshop culture
- A structured methodology that you can follow to bring more happiness, productivity and engagement to your team
- Practical exercises to help you build new skills and knowledge, and increase impact at work
Alison Coward is a team culture coach, consultant and founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to build high-performing, collaborative team cultures.
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED TITLE***
Stressed and unhappy at work, Celia Gaze thought to herself one day: “Surely there must be more to life than this?” She resigned from her high-powered health management role and started transforming a neglected farm into an award-winning wedding venue. She faced nearly every type of challenge an entrepreneur can face – tribunals, near bankruptcy, court hearings, staff issues, system problems – and survived to tell the tale.
But the moment that transformed her business from a struggle to a success was the moment she put a bow tie on a llama. Everyone thought she was crazy – why on earth would you do that?
But it turns out that the ‘crazy’ ideas are often the ones that change your life. This book is a roadmap for uncovering your crazy idea and implementing it.
From the pitfalls and problems to the practical details of making your idea happen, this is a roadmap for anyone who wants more out of life.
Are you ready to transform your energy and resilience to thrive in work and life?
The Wellbeing Advantage is a timely and transformative guide for modern professionals who want to feel more energised, focused and in control. Whether you’re seeking better balance, greater mental clarity or a smarter way to handle pressure, this book introduces seven simple science-backed habits to help you build resilience and protect your wellbeing, without overhauling your life.
Dr Janine van Someren, a leading wellbeing consultant and expert in wearable technology, combines insights from high-performance coaching, behavioural change and the science of wellbeing to deliver results. Learn how to:
- Build energy and resilience through small changes that deliver big results
- Unlock the power of wearable technology to monitor stress and recovery
- Maximise rest to increase your capacity and protect against burnout
- Apply coaching techniques to support sustainable personal growth
- Manage stress with practical, flexible strategies that fit real life.
From energising routines to rest that truly restores, The Wellbeing Advantage gives you the tools to bring your best self to work and home again.
The problem with most strategies is that they’re built for a world that doesn’t exist.
When Strategy Meets Reality is for leaders who have followed the established playbook – off-sites, frameworks, cascades – and discovered that the more they plan, the less the organization seems to adapt. Strategy produces documents, not direction.
The truth is that organizations are complex adaptive systems, not machines, which means strategy cannot be designed and then implemented in a linear sequence; it must be oriented, adapted and sustained through structures that enable intelligent action at every level.
Drawing on complexity, systems thinking and decentralization, When Strategy Meets Reality reframes strategy as orientation: the ongoing work of making sense, acting and adapting when the map no longer matches the territory. Rather than control and prediction, it focuses on coherence, adaptation and viable decision-making in uncertainty, supported by information that flows freely and authority that moves to where knowledge lives.
This is a book for CEOs, COOs and strategy leaders who want strategy to produce decisions and direction that survive contact with the world.
The Wellbeing Paradox challenges the assumptions underpinning today’s workplace wellbeing efforts. Despite increasing investment, burnout and stress continue to rise. This book explores why that is, and what it takes to create genuine, lasting change.
Rather than treating wellbeing as a programme to implement or a metric to manage, it reframes it as a living quality that emerges from relationships, meaning and energy within organizations. Drawing on systems thinking, philosophy and real-world practice, it shows how many well-intended initiatives fail by addressing symptoms rather than the deeper dynamics of how work is designed and experienced.
Written for HR, OD and workplace wellbeing leads navigating complex and demanding environments, The Wellbeing Paradox offers a different path – one grounded in participation, dialogue and collective learning. It positions workplace wellbeing as a complex adaptive challenge, requiring ongoing inquiry rather than fixed solutions.
The Five Shifts model provides a practical yet flexible framework for moving from fragmented initiatives to coherent, co-created cultures of thriving. It helps leaders move beyond surface-level interventions to cultivate the conditions where wellbeing can emerge and evolve.
Compassionate and thought-provoking, this is both a guide and a companion for those seeking to lead more human, adaptive and energizing ways of working amid constant change, competing demands and the pressures of modern organizational life.
Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in Smart Thinking category
The new reputation equity for diverse CEOs
People from diverse backgrounds struggle to land C-Suite jobs and their tenures are often shorter. One key but often overlooked reason for this is the failure to capitalize on reputation management and communication as an integral part of increasing diversity at the highest levels. We Need New Leaders helps aspiring leaders from diverse backgrounds to land and keep the top jobs.
Combining her MSc research with over 20 years’ professional experience, including several years leading a global executive communications team, Charlotte Otter shows how aspiring leaders can master reputation management as a bridge to success.
Beating the odds might seem hard, but the world needs a new and better cohort of leaders. Learn what you need to do to be seen and heard as the leader you are.
‘Shows how leaders can reshape themselves in practice.’ Rupert Younger, Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
‘A powerful call to action.’ Rosie Ginday MBE, CEO and Founder, Miss Macaroon
‘A must-read for aspiring leaders and those seeking to redefine the status quo in the C-Suite.’ Frank Wolf, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Staffbase, Author of The Narrative Age
‘A book that could change the world one leader at a time.’ David Pullan, Author of The DNA of Engagement
Charlotte Otter is an author, speaker and advisor. We Need New Leaders is grounded in her experience as a communications executive, as well as her novel research for her MSc in Change Leadership from HEC Paris. It is both a handbook and a manifesto for change at the leadership level.
‘I highly recommend this book for anyone who is seeking to embrace the power and potential of the new life stage of “redefinition”.’ – Berit Lewis, Author of Ageing Upwards
So, you’re leaving work: what’s next for you?
As part of the first generation of women who were told they could ‘have it all’, you’ve striven to succeed both in and out of work – to achieve status and feel valued, to have had a rewarding and fulfilling life and career. But once you leave work, what next? How will you fill your time in a way that has purpose and meaning, and how will you keep the sense of being relevant and valued? Jane Moffett will help you understand yourself better, and expand your thinking to open up new opportunities, and new ways of finding purpose in life. By determining what it is you need and want, and focusing on where you can get it, you can design your own unique map for the future and embrace this life stage!
As an executive coach, trainer and facilitator, Jane Moffett has 30 years of experience working with women at key points of change in their lives where the professional and the personal intersect. She writes and publishes regularly in this area and is a member of staff at the Henley Business School’s Coaching Centre, and regularly attends meetings of the Women and Work All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).
**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024**
**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**
Your gender stats are tumbling, women aren’t advancing, their feedback is poor, and too many are leaving. What’s going on?
Women navigating a traditionally male-dominated technical sector too frequently feel invisible, frustrated, and undervalued in the workplace. Lauren Neal has been there, and she’s developed tried-and-tested approaches that male-dominated organizations can take to motivate and retain women. Because only a truly empowered, diverse workforce can drive the best business outcomes and innovations.
Inspired by real-life stories, Valued at Work gives you the tools to take control and drive real change without alienating any of the workforce!
Lauren Neal is an award-winning chartered engineer and chartered project professional in the energy industry. Having worked with men and women offshore, onshore and onsite on multimillion-dollar projects across the globe since 2005, she is a sought-after speaker and writer championing gender equity within STEM.
Women make up the majority of university graduates. They enter the workplace in equal numbers with men. But many workplaces still operate with cultures developed over a century ago to reflect a predominantly male workforce and vastly differing social expectations. So all too often as women become parents they are forced to fix things in the only way they can – by downgrading their job expectations or dropping out of the corporate world.
Anna Meller believes it’s high time we #Upcycled our jobs and careers to fit today’s lifestyles and meet women’s changed expectations. Her PROPEL model offers ambitious working mothers new possibilities for progressing their corporate careers.
In this book, Anna leads you through an evidence-based six step process that supports you in finding the balance you need. Practical exercises enable you to craft a working arrangement that meets your employer’s expectations as well as your own aspirations, and to develop the key skills you need to maintain it.
What if the career you’ve built isn’t the one you want to keep?
Whether you’re a senior leader questioning the cost of success, or a professional at any stage sensing you’ve outgrown the path mapped, this book is your roadmap to Uptick what comes next.
A career pivot isn’t about throwing everything away; it’s about harnessing your transferrable skills, experience, knowledge and credibility to create an uptick, a new, planned direction built on what came before, one which aligns more with who you are today.
With practical exercises, honest stories, and strategies that take you from reflection to action, this book will help you find clarity, overcome fear, plan your finances, embrace change and build a confident future that balances fulfilment with freedom.
If you’ve ever wondered ‘Is this it?’ – here’s your answer: it doesn’t have to be!
