Last night was the 2026 Business Book Awards and we are delighted that we had 4 winners!
Congratulations to:
Dominic Colenso for winning in the Business Self Development category 🏆
Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas for highly commended in the Leadership category 🏅
Sasha Frieze for highly commended in the Sales and Marketing category 🏅
Virginia Cinquemani for highly commended in the Change and Sustainability category 🏅
Congratulations to Drs Schuster & Oxley for winning the 2026 Non-Fiction People’s Book Prize!
Congratulations to Tom Pullen, author of INNOVATOR, on his award wins below!
Eric Hoffer Book Award 2026 – Winner in Reference
Eric Hoffer Book Award 2026 – Grand Prize Finalist
Eric Hoffer Book Award 2026 – First Horizon Award Finalist
National Indie Excellence® Awards 2026 – Winner in Business-General
Axiom Business Book Awards 2026 – Bronze Medal in Business Intelligence / Innovation
International Book Awards 2026 – Finalist in Business: Reference
We have had an incredible 16 finalists for the Business Book Awards this year! Take a look at our finalists below:
People, Culture and Management: People People, Smart Conflict
Change & Sustainability: The Good Communicator
Leadership: Good Bye, Hope is a Strategy, Meaning Over Purpose, The Through Line
Business Self Development: Artificial Death of a Career, Cut-Through
Work & Life: A Groundhog Career
Specialist: Personal Threat Management
Diversity, Inclusion & Equality: M-Power
Smart Thinking: We Need New Leaders
Congratulations to Sara Nasser Dalrymple, Elena V. Amber and Tom Pullen for winning Axiom medals! See links to their books below:
We are delighted to see that Dr. Helmut Schuster and Dr. David Oxley’s book, Artificial Death of a Career, has been announced as a finalist at the 2025 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Winners will be announced on April 1st 2026!
Finalists 2025 | The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Below is a list of the 2025 FINALISTS in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. The children’s books were read and judged by children in 8 UK primary and secondary schools, the adult books by 2 Reading Groups, 1 in London and 1 in Stockholm.
We are delighted to announce that Alice Driscoll and Louise Van Haarst, authors of Smart Conflict, have been named named in the Thinkers50 Radar 2026 (the 30 business and management thinkers to watch worldwide).
Thinkers50 Radar 2026 | 30 Emerging Management Thinkers
Discover Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2026 featuring 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas are set to shape the future of management thinking.
A Groundhog Career by Dr David Oxley and Dr Helmut Schuster triumphed at this year’s Goody Business Awards, winning in both the Business Career Success and Self-Help Success categories and being named as a finalist in the Self-Help Happiness category.
2025 Awards – Career Success – Goody Business Book Awards
2025 Awards – Career Success
Smart Conflict, by Alice Driscoll and Louise Van Haarst, has been named one of the best HR books of the month by HR Magazine.
Best of HR books: October 2025 – HR Magazine
Our pick of the latest releases for HR professionals.
