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Untapping Innovation

Innovating in R&D is tougher than ever.

R&D teams are working harder than ever, yet most innovations still fail. Traditional approaches often overlook the user and don’t dig deep enough into product points of difference, leading to generic solutions, costly rework cycles and missed opportunities.

Untapping Innovation offers a smarter way forward. This essential playbook, from the founders of the hugely successful Untapped Innovation, offers simple, flexible tools to help R&D teams build products that users truly love. Discover how to extract deep user insights, craft Ideal Product Models, create Minimum Viable Products and write compelling product stories that resonate with both consumers and stakeholders, to bridge the gap between innovation and market success.

During their 30+ years at Procter & Gamble then Untapped Innovation, Sally Kemkers, Suzanne Allers and Deirdre Walters have relentlessly focused on optimizing tools to help R&D innovators develop breakthrough products and stories.

Uptick

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!

The Way We Talk Around Here

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

The unspoken rules and unquestioned assumptions that make up an organization’s culture are so well hidden that, once we become insiders, we stop noticing them. They’re just ‘the way we do things around here’. But shared internal language – ‘the way we talk around here’ – both reflects and sustains the unconscious patterns of thought, behaviour and interaction that add up to culture. So examining an organization’s language is a powerful and pragmatic way to shed light on its culture.

Gill Ereaut describes how to uncover organizational and team cultures through paying close attention to the language used by insiders. Discover:

• How and why an organization’s internal language can point to the silent assumptions that underpin its culture

• How to use language patterns to identify unconscious rules and norms, often rooted in the past, so people can work out which still serve the organization well, and which don’t

• Practical tools to help everyone reshape unhelpful shared habits of thinking, and generate effective, continuous and positive change.

If you’re responsible for guiding an organizational or team culture – or if you’re trying to thrive within one – find out how listening to language can help you map, understand and even inspire change within that culture.

Uncharted Spaces

What happens in boardrooms? How are decisions made?

How can board directors keep on top of rapid, unpredictable change in the business environment?

How are boards and business leaders changing to remain relevant for the future?

Whether you are a business leader or a board director, this book will help your stewardship of businesses, as you navigate the dynamic world of strategic decisions in the face of complex challenges and rich opportunities.

Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is an experienced independent non-executive director and committee chair. She has served on boards of listed and privately held companies, a university and an LLP. She brings over three decades of multi-sector experience and multidisciplinary training to questions of technology and innovation, risk and foresight, and governance practices.

True Profit Business

*SHORT-LISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2020!*

We need to change the way we do business.

If you’ve decided to go it alone and grow your own business, you’re probably finding it tough to make things work.

The pace of life is getting faster, our benchmarks for success ever higher, and thousands of micro-business owners are facing entrepreneurial burnout, trying to cover up their stress and exhaustion with ‘love-my-life’ smiles and filtered images on social media.

It’s not just the cashflow that needs fixing: your mental health and well-being are at stake here.

If you are ready to make money, make an impact and thrive in the process, True Profit Business gives you a simpler, more connected path to business success:

· Clarity – understand what your bigger vision of success looks like and how business growth really works

· Structure – get clear on the five Growth Pillars to ensure sustainable growth

· Flow – discover when to Lean Back and when to Lean In to enable an effective energy flow between thinking, planning and taking action

· Process – discover which of the five True Profit Business Models will enable you to thrive.

True Profit Business not only helps you diagnose what’s going wrong for you, it focuses you on your bigger game and shows you the building blocks – the processes and people – you need to turn your expertise and talents into a purposeful, playful and profitable business.

Trusted

Shortlisted for the Judges’ Choice Award, The Business Book Awards 2017
In a world of increasingly digitised interactions it’s more essential than ever for businesses to connect with their customers and staff on a human level.
Trusted gives clear strategies to build and maintain deep professional relationships, authentically. The revolutionary T-spot model explores the five essential areas that must be aligned to create professional trust – mindset, communication, interaction, behaviour and professional image – and reveals where the ‘credibility thief’ is damaging that trust and, ultimately, your profits.
Beautifully designed with concepts illustrated visually throughout, Trusted is full of inspirational ideas, top tips and insights drawn from the authors’ work with world-class organisations. It shows leaders how to focus on the skills that impact on the client experience and the company’s ability to deliver outstanding service, resulting in improved profits, employee retention, company growth and competitive advantage.

Unlocking Authenticity

In Unlocking Authenticity, author, leadership coach and workplace culture expert Shivani Uberoi delivers a powerful and refreshingly honest exploration of what it really means to be yourself at work… and why so many of us struggle to do it.

From subtle workplace norms to deeply ingrained beliefs about who we need to be to succeed, Unlocking Authenticity unpacks the hidden cost of constantly ‘fitting in’ and what it takes to break free.

Through real-life stories, including experiences of navigating race and identity, challenging stigma around masculinity and fatherhood, redefining possibility after disability, and the hidden pressures of privilege, motherhood and neurodiversity, the book brings to life the complex realities behind how we show up at work and in life.

Full of insight, inspiration and practical wisdom, Unlocking Authenticity invites you to reflect on your own journey and gives you the tools to show up more fully as yourself, while creating a culture where others can do the same.

Inside the book:

  • Relatable, real-life stories that reveal how and why we cover different parts of ourselves at work.

  • Practical tools and reflective exercises to help you build self-awareness, challenge bias and strengthen psychological safety.

  • Insightful frameworks to create cultures where people don’t have to fit in but can thrive as their best selves.

An essential read for leaders, managers and individuals who want to create environments where people can do their best work without pretending to be someone they’re not.

Transform to Outperform

Ever wonder how to achieve extraordinary results in a disruptive world? Exceed your own expectations and those of your competitors by unleashing your superpower. Learn how to develop your best self, build your brand, influence, engage others and transform your team and organization’s results.

In Transform to Outperform: 7 powers to transform you, your team and your results, Susie Robinson reveals practical steps towards personal, team and organization transformation, and seven powers that help you deliver extraordinary performance. Leadership is transforming outcomes, it begins with the release of personal power, activated, and amplified by goal and process power. When the right conditions are created, a performance double helix occurs between the leader and their team – people power. Those leaders who embed a concern for people, accountability, customer intimacy and excellence create culture power and a corresponding flywheel effect; an ever-increasing performance momentum which is sustained with smart power and staying power.

Informed by the latest developments in psychology, neuroscience, and performance science, this is a powerful guide to personal development and life transformation as well as a manual for modern leadership and a practical, innovative route through the maze of leading change.

UNBLOCK

More productive people and processes, fast.

In many countries, productivity growth has been sluggish for over 15 years. It is the reason why we are all working harder for less money, and yet despite many attempts to overcome this, it remains a significant challenge.

Yet productivity is a poorly understood concept – few companies measure it effectively, and even fewer understand how they can change it for the better. In UNBLOCK, Amanda Sokell sets out the root cause of a poor productivity culture and outlines four levers to transform your productivity, and therefore your profits, in only 100 days.

Amanda Sokell is a process and productivity expert who helps companies thrive. She’s also a popular speaker, author, entrepreneur, creative, polymath and educationalist; lover of learning, chocolate, dancing and difference.

In a 25-year career spanning public relations, software development, coaching, mentoring and training, Amanda has helped transform the productivity culture of organizations from global pharmaceuticals to family-run microbusinesses.

The Thriving Giver

Stop the energy drain – recharge, rebalance and thrive!

Are you stressed, exhausted, or tending to neglect your own needs? If so, this book is your essential guide to emotional resilience, stress management, and burnout prevention—whether you’re a nurse, doctor, therapist, teacher, parent, carer, non-profit worker, or simply find it hard to say “no”.*

“A gem in the burnout prevention, self-care literature.” *

—Thomas Skovholt, Psychologist, Author of The Resilient Practitioner

Short chapters with evidence-based strategies that make it easy to:

  • Shift your mindset to make self-care guilt-free
  • Manage pressure and build resilience
  • Say “no” with confidence and kindness
  • Calm anxiety and stress quickly and easily
  • Release difficult emotions with a simple, research-based strategy

Start thriving today— choose the practical tools that suit your needs.

“Meticulously researched and highly relevant for professionals and non-professionals alike.”

—Sue Schraer, Psychotherapist and guest editor of The Psychotherapist

From Exhaustion to Thriving: Real Stories, Real Tools, Real Hope

Sarah knows firsthand the challenges of overwhelm, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Balancing a demanding practice with being a single parent led her to profound exhaustion—fuelling her passion for real, evidence-based solutions.

Sarah has a Master’s in stress research and over a decade teaching her 7 Thriving Giver principles to doctors, nurses, therapists, and caring professionals. She equips you with practical tools for inner strength and wellbeing that integrate easily into a busy schedule.

Discover inspiring, real-life stories of individuals who found balance, resilience, and empowerment by mastering stress, setting boundaries, and nurturing themselves—with practical strategies you can apply today.

Remember, self-care is not selfish—it’s the fuel that allows your light to carry on shining.

You’re not alone—join a community of Thriving Givers who have already transformed their lives. With this book, you too can:

• Balance your own needs with the care of others • Stay calm and confident – even under pressure • Reignite your motivation for work and life • Build lasting vitality and wellbeing – at work and at home

“I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is powerful, authentic and guides us towards true self-compassion.”

—Dr Sarah Eagger, Consultant Psychiatrist, and Senior Lecturer

“Valuable tool for mental health workers – to enhance their own lives as well as their clients.”

—Caroline Black, Psychotherapist

Make today the turning point — reclaim balance, vitality and resilience with The Thriving Giver. Join empowered nurses, therapists, teachers and others who want to thrive – get your copy now.