Books – Page 9 – Practical Inspiration Publishing

Revolting Women

**Business Book Awards 2024: Diversity, Inclusion & Equality Book of the Year**

**The People’s Book Prize 2023/24 Shortlisted Title**

There’s one group consistently ignored in most companies’ diversity strategies, but which could be your business’s secret weapon.

Professional women over 50 are faced with a triple-whammy of discrimination: they are not male, young, or linear in their career paths. As a result, they are leaving corporate life and taking their career into their own hands. And with it, they take their abundant wisdom, energy and ambition.

Drawing on new research by Dr Lucy Ryan that fills a longstanding data gap, this book shows that assumptions about declining midlife motivation and energy just aren’t true for women and reveals how you can retain and develop this invaluable talent pool with a better understanding of their challenges and a few simple changes.

Professional women have transformed our world. And women over 50 are deserving of your attention and ready to step up in your business.

Dr Lucy Ryan is a leadership coach, consultant, author and passionate advocate for women’s professional development. Her doctoral research project explored the phenomenon of midlife for professional women, a long-standing data gap, and she works with companies internationally to unlock the potential of this key talent pool.

The Resilience Dynamic

As a leader, do you feel you face a straight choice between high performance versus wellbeing?

Strategic resilience allows you to achieve both, without compromise.

At The Resilience Engine, we believe that everyone deserves to perform well without compromising their wellbeing.

We know our approach works because it’s backed up by ten years of research and experience with thousands of clients in over 75 organisations.

The Resilience Dynamic® illustrates, with practical tools, how to develop resilience as a buffer to stress and how it can transform how you lead change and increase performance in a complex and uncertain world.

Sales Coaching Essentials

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

Need your new sales hires to get up to speed faster?
Want your salespeople to stop depending on you? Like to get the very best from your sales team?

“This is the book you keep on your shelf and ‘dog-ear’ as a new or seasoned manager with tips you can action immediately. A rare find among sales books today.”
Ashton Williams – Senior Manager Revenue Enablement ADA

“A masterpiece in sales coaching. Your salespeople will become autonomous in their thinking, discovering their own answers, mastering their own objections, and you will be the guide to their success.”
Caroline McCrystal – Senior Account Manager UK&I GTM Banking Experian

“Mark does a phenomenal job demystifying sales coaching and making it actionable for frontline managers. A must-read for any sales leader unlocking the performance of their team.”
Matthew Dixon – Co-author of The Challenger Sale and Jolt

More than ever you need to coach your team so they can think for themselves, take responsibility for their performance and do what you hired them to do. If you want to turn your team into top sales performers, sales coaching must be your focus. Let this practical and easy-to-read book show you how.

Mark Garrett Hayes is an accredited coach and trainer, and is passionate about helping sales leaders to dramatically boost sales performance and accountability.

Smart Conflict

Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in People, Culture and Management category

A highly practical, immediately implementable guide to getting good at conflict at work.

The ability to engage with healthy conflict is a crucial element of high performance, and the foundation of collaborative, inclusive and innovative cultures.

Drawing on the latest evidence and thinking from psychology and coaching research, Smart Conflict will equip you with the skills you need to manage conflict with confidence and compassion.

As experienced conflict and leadership team coaches, Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst know that not enough conflict, of the right kind, is just as damaging to teams and organizations as having too much of the wrong kind. Whether your default conflict style is avoidant, inflexible or aggressive, this book will give you the tools to embrace Smart Conflict and transform your leadership, your team and maybe your life.

Scientifically Speaking

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

Now more than ever, the scientific and medical community is under the microscope and in front of the media. Science matters, and in a post-truth world it’s more important than ever for scientists and physicians to be heard.

But there’s a challenge. To get people to listen, you can’t communicate in writing alone anymore. You need to speak up and be seen – on stage, online, and on camera. To do this well you need to master the art of influential speaking, which is something you weren’t taught at university or medical school.

This book teaches you how to become a compelling scientific speaker so that you can put your message across with confidence and clarity, both online and in person. It’s written by a speaking coach with 25 years of experience in science communications.

Part One shows how speaking can help you to win the war of attention, benefiting both your field and your career.

Part Two explains how to craft your scientific message in a way that connects with your audience and achieves your goal. Including how to be memorable, handle the Q&A, and communicate risk.

Part Three gives you a tool kit for speaking with energy and conviction in all types of situations. These include virtual channels, which are particularly important in the post-COVID era.

Jo Browning is the Founder and Managing Director of Filshie Browning Associates, and its Principle Consultant. She has 25 years of experience in verbal communication skills, and helps scientists and physicians to improve their content, competence, and confidence, so that they can communicate with impact and authority. This enables them to enhance their reputations and build more effective relationships with both their peers and others.

Reimagine Your Career

Ready for a change? Want to integrate your personal and professional life in a more satisfying way? Whether you’re considering going it alone or you just want more fulfilment at work, Ollie Henderson can help. He’s reimagined his own career, and he’s interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, leaders and experts to find out their secrets, too.

Discover 10 principles that will help you take control of your future and generate new opportunities, so you can reimagine your career for good.

Experienced founder and CEO Ollie Henderson believes work/life balance is a myth. Rather than seeing career and personal life as two opposing forces, he argues that the secret is to design an integrated approach that allows them to work in harmony. Ollie pivoted his own career while raising a young family, and he can help you make the changes you’re dreaming of too!

Remarkable Business Growth

‘This book is a secret weapon, providing clarity and confidence in scaling to seven figures’
Sebastian Bates, The Warrior Academy

The average B2B business takes 5 years to double its revenue; remarkable businesses double revenue every 12 months. In Remarkable Business Growth, Richard Mawer reveals how you can make YOUR B2B business remarkable and unlock predictable 7-figure business growth.

You know you need proven strategy, processes and systems to be successful. What you’re missing is the secret of making your business remarkable at every touchpoint, a business that your customers not only use, but love and remark upon.

From working with hundreds of business owners and building eight businesses of his own, Richard has developed the STEPS Growth method, to give business owners a step-by-step blueprint of processes and principles to put in place the five strategies, processes and systems that a modern business needs to grow predictably towards seven figures and beyond.

www.goberemarkable.com

Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa

‘A living manual for the renaissance of an eminent African country!’ Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa, 1999–2008

A practical roadmap for transforming the largest economy in Africa.

Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa is an insider’s account of how to take Nigeria and Africa from its current potential to a lasting legacy for posterity.

Drawing on long experience in both the private sector and government, Olusegun Aganga provides practical and pragmatic insights that all Nigerians, and anyone concerned about the broader economic future of Africa, should consider.

Remarkable Business Systems

Big-company systems, small-business budget.

AI and automation have just put the kind of systems that once needed a corporate budget within reach of a five-person firm. For the first time, a small business can build them affordably. But affordable systems are only the start. What they really buy you is your time back, and a business that finally runs without you.

Most small business owners are the engine their business runs on. Remarkable Business Systems shows you how to stop being the bottleneck, using the BUILD method, a five-step path to systems that fit how you really work and that your people will actually use. Whether you are a micro-business owner who wants their time back or you are heading up a growing team, this is the plain-English, step-by-step way to do it.

Includes:

Ready-to-use AI prompts in every chapter
Real small-business case studies
The 90-Day Planner, a free interactive companion tool to track your progress and momentum week by week.

Richard Mawer is the founder of Ignite Growth and Leadnamic Systems, and the author of Remarkable Business Growth. He helps small business owners build systems that grow the business and give them their time back.