Jonni Ressler (center) is a Seattle area improviser and ensemble member of Seattle Comedy Theater. She can be found playing with independent groups around Seattle and at ComedySportz.
Have you ever been part of a long conversation with a group of people that was so good that, by the end, you felt like you had created new meaning together, and that everyone felt seen and heard?
In my experience, such conversations are difficult to achieve without having an assigned facilitator. That’s why I believe for lengthy group discussions, someone should assume the facilitator role to invite everyone to contribute and to identify and summarize themes.
Understanding what needs to happen to create good self-facilitated conversations eluded me.
That is, until I recently discovered long-form improv at Lumora, a nonprofit theater space founded by my friend Heath Hollensbee.
“Improv” is short for improvisation and it refers to an unscripted style of theater. Because there is no director, or designated facilitator, I liken it to a self-facilitated conversation. Many people are more familiar with short form improv, in which 2 to 5 min scenes are created based on audience prompts. Actors listen just enough to deliver quick punchy jokes.
In long form improv, an ensemble of actors gets their prompt from a single source at the beginning of a 20 to 45 min set. During the set, a few actors at a time take turns at center stage
to perform scenes that are developed in real time.
Over the course of time, all of the actors listen carefully for what is said and not said, even when it isn’t their turn to act. This allows them to reference earlier scenes in a way that contributes to the overall story. At Lumora, I got to watch and compare two different long form improv ensembles. The first group was good. The second was great. I got the impression the second ensemble listened to each other better. As a result, their scenes felt more connected and the overall story, by the end of the set, was more cohesive.
Back to how this relates to lengthy self-facilitated group conversations. I realized the reason so many of these conversations fall flat is that people don’t listen to each other deeply. They are too busy thinking about what they want to say. While having a conversation facilitator can improve the chances of a good conversation, long form improv has convinced me it’s deep listening, intense curiosity, and active reflection by everyone involved that can transform a conversation into something memorable and unique.
For your next group conversation, pay special attention to how much people are listening and reflecting on what others are saying, instead of just focusing on what they will say when it’s their turn to speak.
I’d love to hear what you notice. And please consider sharing this email with anyone who wants to have more effective group discussions.
Julie getting ready to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “largest dim sum dinner” with 800 other people in Seattle’s Chinatown International District.
On June 18, I got to participate in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the most number of people gathered to eat dim sum. We succeeded, and set a new record with 830 eaters, beating the one set by Australia in 2019, by 66 people.
What started as a free marketing tool used in pubs for Guinness beers in 1955, has become the primary source for verifying records of individual and institutional achievements. As a child, I grew up reading the Guinness Book of World Records. We had the book at home and I would look through the grainy black and white photos of oddities like the person with “the most limbs” and “the longest fingernails” with awe. It wasn’t until I participated in this record breaking attempt, that I heard so many other people claiming the same childhood experience. This is a company that has learned how to evolve and reinvent itself. It’s a testament to the Guinness World Records brand.
Nowadays, Guinness World Records makes the bulk of their money from aspiring record breakers who pay sizable fees to organize events for publicity. What the organizers of this dim sum event, Seattle’s Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area, paid to Guinness seems nominal compared to all the media coverage and word-of-mouth buzz the event drew. Within a week of registration opening, 1000 people registered for the event and an additional 700 opted to waitlist.
Some criticize Guinness for making money by leveraging its brand this way. I see it as an example of a company being inventive when its book sale revenue, its primary source, dried up. Reinvention takes a lot of curiosity. I understand this personally because my family publishes a Vietnamese newspaper. We, along with many other small print newspapers, are in major decline because we haven’t been able to reinvent ourselves.
Moreover, Guinness is meeting a genuine need for event-based marketing that engages real people. I am extremely proud to claim I helped break a world record and that I, and the 829 other participants, were in this together.
By finding ways to stay relevant, Guinness World Records has been able to stay in business, despite technology changes, while staying true to who they are at their core.
What stories of reinvention at the institutional or individual level have you heard of?
Please consider sharing this email with anyone who could benefit from a reinvention story.
181 Leadership Books Written by Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx Authors (2026)
In honor of Latin American History Month, we updated our list of leadership books with 181 leadership books written by Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx authors. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.
Hispanic Women Seeking Higher Leadership Roles in Business — Syliva C. Motta, PhD
Homeless by Choice — Roy Juarez Jr.
How to Implement Self-Service Without Failing: A Practical Guide for Retailers and Decision-Makers — Adriana Rivas
I Got This: To Gold and Beyond — Lauren Hernandez
In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror — Anthony D. Romero
In My Own Words: A Memoir — Eva Peron
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided — Diane Guerrero
In The Dream House: A Memoir — Carmen Maria Machado
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage — Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace — Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism — Laura E. Gómez
Isabel’s Hand-Me-Down Dreams — Isabel Lopez
Journey to the Future: A Roadmap for Success for Youth — Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch
Justice & Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community — Kathy Bussert-Web, et. al.
La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millenials — David Hayes-Bautista
Latina Empowerment Through Leadership: Mindful Stories from Inspiring Women — Catherine Munos Garces, Monica Rivera, et al
Latina Leadership Lessons: Fifty Latinas Speak — Delia Garcia (editor)
Latina Madrina: Stories, Lessons, and Hard Truths From A Brown Latina In Tech — Julissa S. Germosén
Latinas in Aviation — Jacqueline S. Ruiz
Latinas in Corporate: Overcoming Cultural Obstacles While Juggling a Career and a Family — Myriam Del Angel
Latinas in Real Estate: Stories of Passion, Resilience, and Breaking Barriers of Latinas in the Real Estate Industry — Maggie Antillon-Mathews
Latinas Rising Up in HR — Priscilla Guasso
Latinas Rising Up In HR Volume III Executive Edition: Inspirational Stories of Human Resources Professionals Leading, Thriving, and Breaking Barriers — Priscilla Guasso
Latinization and the Latino Leader: How to Value Professionals — Cristina Benitez & Marlene Gonzalez
Latino and Latina Leaders of the 21st Century — Kay (Kayla) S. Garcia
Latino Leaders Speak: Personal Stories of Struggle and Triumph — Mickey Ibarra, Maria Pérez-Brown
Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit Hispanic Professionals — Robert Rodriguez
Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition — Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana
Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity are Driving Some of the World’s Biggest Companies — Frank Carbajal and José Morey
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics — Ed Morales
Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows — Charles P. Garcia
Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education — Annmarie Caño
Leading with Psychological Safety: 52 Essential Practices for a Year of Building Trust and Empowering Teams — Amervis López Cobb
Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs — Nathalie Molina Niño
Leaving Little Havana: A memoir of Miami’s Cuban ghetto — Cecilia M. Fernandez
Life Is A Beautiful Journey: 15 Ways To Create A Life Full Of Joy and Gratitude — Janine Hernandez
Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America — Margarita Longoria
Love Is the Path: An Immigrant’s Journey to Belonging Through the Workplace — Claudia Cardozo
MAMI on a Mission! Mujeres Alcanzando Metas Imposibles: A Guide Towards Healing, Self-Discovery, and Walking in Confidence! — Mariana Moreno Monterrubio
Me — Ricky Martin
Mean — Myriam Gurba
Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines — Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget — Reyna Grande
More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise — Cecilia Muñoz
My (Underground) American Dream — Julissa Arce
My Beloved World — Sonia Sotomayor
My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey Through Chile — Isabel Allende
My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race — Ilia Calederon
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America — María Hinojosa
ulie’s stock of sticker name tags and trusty Sharpie pen.
Summer means outdoor gatherings, sometimes with many people who don’t know each other. Whether you’re hosting or attending such a party, I have a tool to reduce awkwardness among guests: name tags.
I first learned this from organizing formal networking events where name tags are essential to helping people keep track of everyone they meet. I also use them in my workshops for my clients. I bring tags so I can address participants by their name.
While some people like printed out name tags with pins or magnetic backings, I prefer the simple blank sticker so people can hand write their own name (and whatever other details they want to share). Sticker tags adhere to any surface. They’re also inexpensive and easy. As a result, I always have blank sticker name tags and Sharpie pens on hand.
After seeing the benefits of name tags for work events, I started providing them for my personal social gatherings and my guests really appreciate them.
While some think name tags feel “too formal,” I consider them to be an accessibility aid to support those who have less than perfect memory or hearing. For those with difficult to pronounce names, they can even write the phonetic version of their name.
I even bring my own name tag to social gatherings with unfamiliar groups. The most common response when other guests see my name tag is, “Hey, where are the name tags?” Then I tell them I brought my own. If my partner accompanies me as my guest, I bring one for him, too. To help others place him, he usually writes underneath his name, “I’m with Julie”.
During some events, I’ve had distant acquaintances come up to me and call me by my name. I’m sure they wouldn’t have been confident in remembering who I am if not for my name tag. One person I met at a mutual friend’s birthday party found me on LinkedIn afterwards and messaged me to say, “I’ve been telling people about your name tag.”
This past summer, I’ve been invited to birthday parties where I don’t know many of the other guests. I started offering to the host to bring blank sticker name tags for the other guests. The hosts love it because it makes it easier for guests to introduce themselves to each other, lightening the host’s load.
Social gatherings with strangers can be awkward. Name tags are my trick. What tips do you have to make socializing easier?
Please consider sharing this email with anyone you know who wants to make socializing easier for themselves or for their guests.
Image caption: The main street in downtown Tacoma, Pacific Ave, was nearly empty on a Saturday afternoon. The Washington State Historical Museum is on the left.
The word “vacation” often evokes images of exotic, or at least faraway, places. Last month, my partner and I decided to travel to a nearby regional city for our annual summer vacation.
Even though Tacoma is only 35 miles south of where I live in Seattle, it feels quite different. I love its low-key, chill vibe. It has a quarter of Seattle’s population, half its density, and 70 percent of its median household income.
To experience local living, we rented an AirBnB in a residential neighborhood instead of staying downtown. We visited the city’s history and art museums, parks, and waterfront for the first time. Just as I would when I travel to places a lot farther away, I paid special attention to what looks different from home.
There were a lot fewer people walking on the streets.
I didn’t see any homeless encampments, open drug use, or black markets anywhere – not even downtown or near freeway entrances.
The cars people drove are generally much older, gasoline models, rather than electric powered vehicles.
There were more families with young children.
There were fewer people of Asian heritage
Here are my two big takeaways: 1) I don’t have to travel far to experience cultural differences, and 2) what I notice says a lot about what I consider to be normal: busy streets; homelessness and open drug use; newer, electric vehicles (Seattle has the third most Tesla owners in the US); more dogs than young children; and a 20% Asian population.
Practicing curiosity can make any destination feel more exotic. As summer winds down, you may consider “vacationing” nearby. If you do, please share what you notice and what it reveals about what you consider normal. I’d love to hear from you.
Also, please consider sharing this email with anyone you know who is about to travel near or far.
Julie’s friend’s orange bloom bush is thriving once again after it was moved from a crowded garden and replanted in a more spacious location with more room to grow.
I recently reconnected with my friend, “Colleen,” and was so inspired with how she initiated a major life transition that I asked if I could share her story here.
Colleen spent most of her life building a family and running a business with her husband. Then, about eight years ago, they divorced and ended their business together. After employing sizable teams for years, she had to get a job at a small start-up that shut down shortly thereafter. She went to another company that also had massive layoffs, then another one. After each layoff, it became harder and harder to get the next job. For another 18 months, she tried to find employment with no success. As a woman in her early sixties, she suspected she was dealing with ageism in an expensive city dominated by young professionals.
Colleen was withering. She was living on her dwindling savings. She began questioning her self-worth. Her kids were grown and didn’t seem to need her anymore, either. The continual rejection exhausted her.
Earlier this spring, she realized she needed to change her environment, even though it meant leaving behind everything that she knew. So, Colleen rented out her little house, packed her car with a few belongings and moved to a small tourist town in another state where there were more people her age. If it didn’t work out there, she reasoned at least it was a change from stagnating where she was. It was the first time in her life she prioritized her own needs.
Within a week in the new town, she found a part-time retail job and a one-bedroom apartment.
Within two months, she secured a good job that made use of leadership experience.
When Colleen recounted her story, what surprised me was her lack of bitterness. “(Seattle) was good to me for a long time. I still love it,” she said. “But it’s not the place for me any more. I had to admit that and move on.”
I am a big fan of finding the “lessons learned” from bad experiences. But, I realized that focusing on the bad may reduce these experiences to being useful only for what they teach us not to do. Colleen reminded me to acknowledge how many of those same experiences were also once sources of joy.
Honoring the good times doesn’t mean downplaying the bad times. We can accept that our experiences are made up of both “bitter” and “sweet” parts, hence the word “bittersweet.”
The way Colleen uprooted her life and started over in a new environment reminded me of a friend’s once healthy plant that got crowded out by other plants and became sick. Sometimes we also get crowded out and have to transplant ourselves to a place that gives us more space to grow. Many of us will find that we have to re-root ourselves in new environments, workplaces, relationships to continue to thrive.
When have you had to “re-plant” yourself so that you could thrive again? Have you acknowledged both the bitter and sweet of the former experiences?
I’d love to hear what these reflections brought up for you.
What I learned by trying to dance like Michael Jackson
Julie following along to the video, “BEAT IT” Dance ❤️ Michael Jackson ❤️ Beginner Dance Tutorial ❤️ Step-by-Step Choreography.” The instructor has her back to the viewer.
Is there something you’ve been struggling to learn? Maybe you should look at how you’ve been learning it. I just realized this for myself.
When the biopic of Michael Jackson came out, I went to see it three times. I was inspired by how the lead actor, Jaafar Jackson (Michael’s nephew), took two years to learn how to dance like Michael Jackson. So, I decided to look up tutorials on how to do some “MJ” moves myself.
I’ve always been a big fan of Michael Jackson’s music. Whenever Billie Jean plays at weddings, I’m the first person on the dance floor. What I lack in skills as a dancer, I make up for in enthusiasm. But, when I’ve taken group dance lessons as an adult, I’ve felt frustrated because I couldn’t keep up with the other adult learners. I figured that I must actually be uncoordinated. The movie inspired me to try again, and also to exercise different parts of my brain.
There are a lot of tutorials on how to mimic Michael Jackson’s moves on YouTube. With Carrie and her YouTube channel, Beginning Dance Tutorials, I was able to learn the basic steps of “Beat It” in a 20 min video. I couldn’t believe it.
What changed?
After comparing this video to others, I realized that Carrie, the instructor, had her back to me, which meant I was shadowing her as we danced in the same direction. In almost every other tutorial, the teacher is facing the camera, like in a mirror. It made me realize that my real life dance instructors also faced me. This observation gave me an epiphany. What I thought was my own lack of coordination was actually my brain’s inability to make the cognitive flip to translate the instructor’s moves to how I should move because we were facing opposite directions.
I imagine feeling like someone who is diagnosed with dyslexia that comes to understand why it’s hard for them to read in a standard way. Once I learned how I learn differently, I knew I was capable of mimicking moves as long as I shadowed from behind.
As someone who conducts training, it reminds me to try to approach teaching my concepts in a variety of different ways to accommodate different learning styles.
Have you ever had this experience of discovering you just needed a different teaching style? Or is there something with which you’ve been frustrated that you can’t learn? Maybe you just need to explore what is making it difficult for you to learn.
I’d love to hear from you. something because it feels like you risk rejection? If so, please tell me about it, or ask away. I’d love to hear from you.
Since last fall, I’ve been focused on conducting research for my next book which will focus on respect in friendships. It’s one thing to write a book. It’s another thing to market and sell one.
While I’m proud that the sales from 7 Forms of Respect® are in the top 10% of self-published books, I dream this next book will reach many more people. I want total strangers across the country to approach respect with curiosity in everyday conversations. I envision the book being on people’s shelves and coffee tables. I hope it will lead to opportunities to grow CuriosityBased’s business and brand. And sometimes that dream seems so elusive, I wonder if it will ever happen.
Everything we’ve achieved to sell and market the 7 Forms of Respect® thus far has been through word of mouth, earned media, and consistent content creation. I recognize that to get to the next level, I’m going to have to get an agent and a traditional publisher who can distribute my book widely.
Last month, I was sharing my desire for higher distribution with another writer friend. He tried to soothe me by saying, “As long as you’re trying your hardest.” His words made me realize, “I don’t think I am trying my hardest. I don’t actually think I’m doing the things that make me uncomfortable, that risk rejection. I could be asking for a lot more help.”
This is where you come in. I have to strengthen my “platform” to prove to potential agents there’s an existing market for my work on which they can build.
So, I am asking you for help in three simple ways:
I want to grow newsletter subscribers by 20% by the end of summer. Could you please recommend to a few people to subscribe to this newsletter?
If you read the book, 7 Forms of Respect®, please review it on GoodReads and/ or Amazon. We have 95 reviews across both platforms and I’d like to get to 200 by the end of the summer.
Follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook and like or share our content.
Phew. There, I did it. I asked you for help.
Since that conversation with my friend, I’ve risked rejection daily by directly asking people if I can add them to my newsletter subscriber list. Fortunately, everyone has said, “Yes.”
Are you struggling to ask me for help with something because it feels like you risk rejection? If so, please tell me about it, or ask away. I’d love to hear from you.
Julie’s father, Kim Pham, standing third from the right with his friends and supporters of their family newspaper, Nguoi Viet Tay Nac (Northwest Vietnamese News), circa 1988.
Did you observe the kinds of friendships that your parents, or whomever raised you, had while you were growing up? What did you learn from them about how to treat your own friends? My next book will focus on respect in friendships. As part of my research, I ask people these questions.
While some say their caregivers explicitly taught them how to treat their friends, most say they learned through observations. There was a mix of positive and negative models of friendship. Some said their parents didn’t have friends and, as a result, they themselves didn’t learn how to form friendships until well into adulthood. Many say they had never thought about their parents’ friendships before.
I hadn’t made the connection between my parents’ friendships and my own until I asked myself these questions. As the co-founders of the local Vietnamese newspaper, they were very involved in our immediate Vietnamese community. The line between personal and professional was thin. Many of my parents’ friends were entrepreneurs. Even the doctors and lawyers owned their own practices that served others in our refugee community. Being a friend meant supporting each other’s businesses. My brothers and I were always reminded when we went to a shop or a restaurant that it was owned by someone who advertised in the newspaper.
My parents taught me that friendship means helping each other out with whatever resources we have. This may include giving advice, making key introductions and referrals, and whenever possible, being customers. Many of my friends today are other entrepreneurs, creatives, founders, or have leadership roles at their organizations. We talk about work in the same way others talk about their hobbies or vacations. When it comes to other friends who don’t want to talk about work outside of work, I try to show respect by asking about their families and hobbies. Still, I like to be asked about CuriosityBased because my work is a core part of who I am.
What did you learn about friendship from those who raised you? How is that showing up in your expectations of respect in your own friendships now?
I’d love to hear from you. If you’re interested in having a one on one interview or participating in a focus group, please let me know.
n honor of Pride Month, CuriosityBased curated this 2026 LGBTQIA+ Authored Leadership Book List of books written by authors that identify as LGBTQIA+. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are listed in alphabetical order by book title. Check out all of the CuriosityBased curated leadership book lists.
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays — Audre Lorde
A Place for Us: A Memoir — Brandon J. Wolf
A Queer History of the United States — Michael Bronski
A Year of Pride and Joy — Simon James Green
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto — George M. Johnson
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir — Sean Hewitt
All In: An Autobiography — Billie Jean King
All Pride, No Ego — Jim Fielding
All The Things She Said — Daisy Jones
Allies at Work — Dr. David M. Hall
Alphabet Soup: The Essential Guide to LGBTQ2+ Inclusion — Michael Bach
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings — Harvey Milk
And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir — Joan Baez
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party — Nicola Griffith
Another Word for Love — Carvell Wallace
Authentic Leadership — Lemuel W. Watson & Joshua Moon Johnson
Bad Feminist — Roxanne Gay
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life — Alan Cumming
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life — Alan Cumming and Dey Street Books
Banned from California — Robert C. Steele
Be a Revolution — Ijeoma Oluo
Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir — Adam Rippon
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender — Dr. Kit Heyam
Belonging At Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization — Rhodes Perry
Beyond The Rainbow — Jenn T. Grace
Binge — Tyler Oakley
Black Boy Out of Time — Hari Ziyad
Blood, Bones & Butter — Gabrielle Hamilton
Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation — Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza — Gloria Anzaldúa
In honor of AANHPI Heritage Month, CuriosityBased curated this 2026 AANHPI Authored Leadership Book List of books written by AANHPI authors. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are listed in alphabetical order by book title.Check out all of the CuriosityBased curated leadership book lists.
13 Key Strategies to Make Money Fast in Business by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication by Julie Pham, PhD
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States by Gordon K. Hirabayashi
Acitivites of Daily Living by Lisa Chen
Actions Speak Louder: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace by Deanna Singh
Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw
All in by Jerry Yang
All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession by Monisha Das Gupta
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Ambitious Women Rise by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
Anchored, Aligned, Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work by *Aiko Bethea*
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian In a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
Art of Gathering, The: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
Art of Stillness, The: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
Art of Strategy, The: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success by Avinash K. Dixit
Art of the Start 2.0, The by Guy Kawasaki
Asian American Achievement Paradox, The by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
Asian Women Trailblazers Who BossUp by Tam Luc, et al.
AugmentAsian: Professional & Leadership Success by AsianUpward & Elevate Teams
Authentic Inclusion: Drives Disruptive Innovation by Frances West
Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance by Suneel Gupta
Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Sharon Lee
Be Your Own Cheerleader: An Asian and South Asian Woman’s Guide by Neelu Kaur
Behind Closed Doors, Career Decisions: What HR Executives Know About Career Decisions That Nobody Will Tell you (The Career Reality Series Book 4) by Ringo Nishioka
Behind Closed Doors, Hiring Decisions: What the Room Knows About Hiring Decisions That Nobody Will Tell You by Ringo Nishioka
Behind Closed Doors, Interview Questions: What Recruiters Know About Interview Questions That Nobody Will Tell You by Ringo Nishioka
Behind Closed Doors, Resumes: How Resumes are Judged Before Anyone Speaks to You (The Career Reality Series Book 1) by Ringo Nishioka
Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Champion by Feng-Hsiung Hsu
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Being There: Memoir of an Asian American Journalist by Lori Matsukawa
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald
Best We Could Do, The by Thi Bui
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People by Jenn Lim
Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon
Big We, The by Hali Lee
Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Korean-Black Conflict in New York City by Claire Jean Kim
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
Boat Baby by Vicky Nguyen
Boldly You: A Story about Discovering What You’re Capable of When You Show Up for Yourself by Janet Phan
Boundaries by Maya Lin
Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians by Jane Hyun
Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World by Sheena Yap Chan
Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream by Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Budding Lotus in the West by Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần
Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde
Checklist Manifesto, The: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Color of Success, The: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu
Come into My Office: Stories from an HR Leader in Silicon Valley by Mai Ton
Conversations that Change Everything by Dr. Zachary Van Rossum and Dr. Tammy Wang
Cooked Seed, The: A Memoir by Anchee Min
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee, Diane Elliott-Lee
Creating Culture: Empowered Leadership for Systems Change by Jyoti Jani
Creating the Digital Future: Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel by Albert Y.c. Yu
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Dat: Tackling Life and the NFL by Dat Nguyen
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice by Ali Wong
Death of Truth, The: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner by Arvind Gupta and Po Bronson
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
Diversity Advantage, The: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace by Ruchika Tulshyan
Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
Edge: Turning Adversity Into Advantage by Laura Huang
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai
Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment by Simon Alexander Ong
Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness by Richard Lui
Every Day Is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth
Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry
Fault Lines: A Memoir by Meena Alexander
FEISTY: Dangerously Amazing Women Using Their Voices by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu & Gwendolyn Mink
Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice by Karen Chen
Fixing Fairness: 4 Tenets to Transform Diversity Backlash into Progress for All by Lily Zheng
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive Teams by Anh Dao Pham
Go Back to Where You Came From by Wajahat Ali
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American by Peter M. Jamero
Hawaii’s Story by Liliuokalani
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul by Satya Nadella
Holding Serve: Persevering on and Off the Court by Michael Chang
House Barbie: A Memoir by Geena Rocero
House of Sticks: A Memoir by Ly Tran
How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life by Jeanie Y. Chang, LMFT
How to Raise a Feminist Son by Sonora Jha
How to Speak Machine by John Maeda
Hyderabad Days: The code we lived by before we coded by Ravi Vedula
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir by Lac Su
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Now What? by Dr. Sweta Chawla
I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon
I’m the One That I Want by Margaret Cho
If Lin Can: How Jeremy Lin Inspired Asian Americans by Richard Ho, et al.
Impressive First Impressions by Vu H. Pham
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs
Inclusion on Purpose by Ruchika Tulshyan
Innovation Starts With I: Increase Your Influence. Ignite Your Impact. by Saleema Vellani
Inspiring Women of Hawaii by Loretta Chen
Invitation to Lead: Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders by Paul Tokunaga
It Is Done: 15 Secrets to Manifest Your Dream Life by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei by George Takei
It Takes Moxie by Maureen Francisco
It’s Always Sunny Above the Clouds: Getting into the Cockpit by Nick Tran
Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong by Dawn B. Mabalon, PhD, Gayle Romasanta
Joyful Living: Find Joy in the Journey by Lien Ngu
Karma of Success, The: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius by Liz Tran
Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias, The by Anne Chow
Leadership and Crisis by Bobby Jindal
Leadership Toolkit for Asians by Jane Hyun
Legal Heroes in the Trump Era by Tahmina Watson
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster by Jim Kwik
Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Internet Strikes Back by George Takei
Living for Change by Grace Boggs
Local by Jessica Machado Born
Loneliest Americans, The by Jay Caspian Kang
Love for Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim
Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles by Eric C. Wat
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi
Ma and Me by Putsata Reang
Madame Wu Chien-shiung: The First Lady Of Physics Research by Tsai-chien Chiang
Magical Language of Others, The: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
Making a Scene by Constance Wu
Making of a Manager, The: What to Do When Everyone Looks At You by Julie Zhuo
Making of Asian America, The: A History by Erika Lee
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong
Mid-Career Momentum: Design Your Next Phase with Purpose and Joy. by Sharmin Banu
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo by Jo Koy
Modern Asian Mom: A Memoir by Juliet Dang
Money Makers: Build A Business WITHOUT Paid Ads by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
Monsoon Diaries, The: A Memoir by Calvin D. Sun
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story by Ava Chin
Moving Beyond Boxes: The Journey to Self-Discovery by Dr. Nhu Truong
Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories by Seema Yasmin and Fahmida Azim
My Forty Years as a Diplomat by Feng-Shan Ho
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi
My Life: Growing up Asian in America by CAPE and SuChin Pak
My Money My Way: Taking Back Control of Your Financial Life by Kumiko Love
My Unforgotten Seattle by Ron Chew
Myth of the Model Minority, The by Rosalinda Chou and Joe Feagin
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Next American Revolution, The by Grace Lee Boggs
Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry by Diane C. Fujino
Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty by Dr. Aziz Gazipura
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Oh My Mother! A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang
Oh Myyy!: There Goes the Internet by George Takei
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America by Weijian Shan
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work by Reshma Saujani
Perfect Enough: How to be happier and more productive by Judy T. Dang
Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health by Jenny Wang
Postcolonial Leadership, A by Hee An Choi
Power of Unwavering Focus, The by Dandapani
Power Your Purpose: A Leader’s Guide by Shian Chuan
Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees by Akhtar Badshah
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation by David Eng
Radical : Fighting to Put Students First by Michelle Rhee
Radical Curiosity by Priyanka Raha
Reflections of Seattle’s Chinese Americans: The First 100 Years by Ron Chew
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rise of Chinese American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education, The by Honggang Yang, Wenying Xu
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang
SAVING FIVE; A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen
Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life by Scott Shigeoka
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The by Deepak Chopra
She Made It Happen: 15 Inspiring Stories from Female Entrepreneurs by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
Sheer Determination: Swimming Upstream in a Downstream World by Kay Hirai
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less by Alex Soojun-Kim Pang
Show Your Worth: 8 intentional Strategies by Shelmina Babai Abji
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir by Phuc Tran
Silent Master, The: Awakening the Power Within by Tae Yun Kim
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work by Jessica Chen
Soil of Leadership, The by Britt Yamamoto
Somewhere Inside by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Still life with Rice by Helie Lee
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo
Suitable Boy, A by Vikram Seth
Sun Shining on Morning Snow by Ingrid Hu Dah
Talk it Up! A Guide to Successful Public Speaking by Mr. David Suk Brown
Tao of Self-Confidence, The by Sheena Yap Chan
The Hyakusho Way: Japanese Wisdom for a Flourishing Life by Britt Yamamoto
They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta’
Thick Face, Black Heart by Chin-Ning Chu
Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, The by Haemin Sunim
This is Not a T-Shirt by Bobby Hundreds
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays by Sejal Shah
To The Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei by George Takei
Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century by Bianca Mabute-Louie
Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success by Ruchika T. Malhotra
Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind by Elaine Lin Hering
Unprecedented: The Masters and Me by Tiger Woods
Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone by Vanessa Priya Daniel
Unshrink Yourself: 12 Mini-Shifts to Ditch Self-Doubt and Own Your Life by Thanh Nguyen
Unspoken Rules, The: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right by Gorrick Ng
Unsung Hero: The Col. Young O. Kim Story by Woo Sung Han
Uplifted: Journeys of Abundance, Community, and Identity by Geena Chen
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu
Visibility Mindset, The by Bernice M. Chao & Jessalin Lam
Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle Mijung Kim
War on Normal People, The by Andrew Yang
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
What if Pigs Can Fly? by Van Lai-DuMone
What My Bones Know: A Memoir by Stephanie Foo
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
When Fish Fly by John Yokoyama
When Invisible Children Sing by Chi Cheng Huang
Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity by Soo Jin Lee
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan
Who We Are Becoming Matters by Norma Wong
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
With Schwarzkopf: Life Lessons of The Bear by Gus Lee
Woman On Top: The Art of Smashing Stereotypes by Loretta Chen
Woman Warrior, The by Maxine Hong Kingston
Women Who Lead by Dr. Izdihar Jamil
Working Well: How to Build a Happier, Healthier Workplace Through the Science of Attunement by Nidhi Tewari, MSW, LCSW
We curated this list 2026 Women Authored Leadership Book List to promote women authored leadership books. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement and the books listed are in alphabetical order. Check out our other leadership book lists by authors who identify as LGBTQIA+, AANHPI, Native American, Black, and Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx. View all of our leadership book lists here.
#KeepGoing: From 15-Year-Old Mom to Successful CEO & Entrepreneur – Mari Tautimes
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women – Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale (eds)
[Un]framing the “Bad Woman” – Alicia Gaspar de Alba
10 New Rules for Women at Work – Deb Liu
101 Reasons to Get Out of Bed – Natasha Milne
12 Tools for Managing a Selfish Leader – Josefine Campbell
3HAG Way – Shannon Byrne Susko
50 Billion Dollar Boss – Kathey Porter
7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership – Kate Coleman
7 Forms of Respect – Julie Pham, PhD
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain – Christina Crosby
A CEO for All Seasons – Carolyn Dewar
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir – Jacinda Ardern
A Face for Picasso – Ariel Henley
A Good Cry, What we Learn from Tears and Laughter – Nikki Giovanni
A House of My Own: Stories From My Life – Sandra Cisneros
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground – Alicia Elliott
A Mythic Life: Learning to live our greater story – Jean Houston
A Passion for the Possible – Jean Houston
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
A Writer’s Diary – Virginia Woolf
Abandon Me: Memoirs – Melissa Febos
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader – Hermina Ibarra
Acting Up: Winning in Business and in Life – Janice Bryant Howroyd
After the Idea – Julia Austin
After the Rain – Alexandra Elle
Against White Feminism – Rafia Zakaria
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
All About Love – Bell Hooks
All In: An Autobiography – Billie Jean King
All It Takes Is a Goal – Jon Acuff
All That She Carried – Tiya Miles
All the Leader You Can Be – Suzanne Bates
Ally Leadership – Stephanie Chung
Almost a Woman – Esmeralda Santiago
America for Americans – Erika Lee
American Indian Stories – Zitkala-Sa
An Indian Among Los Indígenas – Ursula Pike
An Overachiever’s Guide to Breaking the Rules – Heather Whelpley
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness – Kay Redfield Jamison
Anchored, Aligned, Accountable – Aiko Bethea
And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir – Joan Baez
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party – Nicola Griffith
Annapurna: A woman’s place – Arlene Blum
AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes – Lynda Lopez
Apocalyptic Best Practices – Elisebeth VanderWeil
Are You Mad at Me? – Meg Josephson
As Long As Grass Grows – Dina Gilio-Whitaker
As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Ask For It – Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever
ASL Saved My Life…Until it didn’t – Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
Atlas of the Heart – Brene Brown
Audition – Katie Kitamura
Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work – Susan David
We created this list to promote Black authored leadership books. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement and the books listed are in alphabetical order. Check out our other leadership book lists by authors who identify as LGBTQIA+, AANHPI, Native American, Women, and Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx. View all of our leadership book lists here.
12 Notes: On Life and Creativity – Quincy Jones
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership – Kathey Porter
9 Laws of Success: Attracting the Life, Love, Health & Success You Want! – Stormy Wellington
A Conscious Leadership Collective Volume I: Leading From Within: Ceasing and Desisting the Internal BS – Chantée L. Christian (editor)
A Good Cry, What we Learn from Tears and Laughter – Nikki Giovanni
A Lucky Man – Jamel Brinkley
A Promised Land – Barack Obama
A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights from the leadership Journeys of African American Executives – Chuck Wallington, PhD
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story – Raphael Warnock
Acting Up: Winning in Business and in Life Using Down-Home Wisdom – Janice Bryant Howroyd
After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love – Alexandra Elle
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America – Gregory Pardlo
All About Love – Bell Hooks
All That She Carried – Tiya Miles
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution – Elie Mystal
American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition – Taymullah Abdur-Rahman
Anchored, Aligned, Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work – Aiko Bethea
And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self – Common
Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work – Jodi-Ann Burey
Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
Balancing Work and Life: The Nia Guide for Black Women – Sheryl Huggins & Cheryl Mayberry McKissack
Bamboozled: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams – Yvonne Orji
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” – Zora Neale Hurston
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – Ijeoma Oluo
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies – Eddie Brown
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid – Mikaila Ulmer
Believe Bigger: Discover the Path to Your Life Purpose – Marshawn Evans Daniels
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do – Jennifer Eberhardt
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America – Michael Harriot
Black and White: The Way I See It – Richard Williams
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur – Dante Lee
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists – Leah Penniman
Black Entrepreneur Survival Guide: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful African American Entrepreneur – Dunneille D. Anderson
Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness – Randal Pinkett & Jeffrey Robinson
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit – Mary-Frances Winters
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires – Shomari Wills
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider – Stacy Spikes
Black Futures – Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic, Rocking Our Truth – Beverly Bond
Black Power Inc.: The New Voices of Success – Cora Daniels
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire – Carol Jenkins & Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District – Hannibal B. Johnson
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism – Jenn M. Jackson, PhD
Black, White, and The Grey – Mashama Bailey & John O. Morisano
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah
Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook for Love and Success – Charreah Jackson
Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing – Erin Jones
Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire – Herman J. Russell
Burn the Blueprint: Reject the Lies, Embrace the In-Between, and Begin Again – Carlos Whittaker
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel – Loretta Ross
CEO of My Soul: The Self-Love Journey of a Small Business Owner – Nic Cober Esquire
Chasing Youth Culture and Getting it Right: How Your Business Can Profit by Tapping Today’s Most Powerful Trendsetters and Tastemakers – Tina Wells
Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life – Michelle Gadsden-Williams & Carolyn M. Brown
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in A White World – Wil Haygood
Constructing a Nervous System – Margo Jefferson
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership – Ed Gordon
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History – Hoke S. Glover & V. Efua Prince
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell
Death of Innocence – Christopher Benson & Mamie Till-Mobley
Decoded – Jay-Z
DEI-ing: A Guide to Navigating the Gotdamn Mess They’ve Made of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Dr. Cheryl Ingram
Display of Power – Daymond John
Double Down: Bet on Yourself and Succeed on Your Own Terms – Antionette M. Clarke & Tricia Clarke-Stone
Driven by Intention: Own Your Purpose, Gain Power, and Pursue Your Passion as a Woman at Work – Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less – Tiffany Dufu
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White – Kitt Shapiro
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower – Brittney Cooper
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds – adrienne maree brown
Everybody’s Got Something – Robin Roberts & Veronica Chambers
Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth – And How You Can Too – Chris Hogan
Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success From a Wall Street Vet – Carla A. Harris
Feeding the Soul – Tabitha Brown
Finding Me: A Memoir – Viola Davis
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward – Valerie Jarrett
Fire Shut Up in My Bones – Charles Blow
First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game – Nadirah Simmons
From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America’s Future – Charles Booker
FutureProofed: How to Navigate Disruptive Change, Find Calm in Chaos, and Succeed in Work & Life – Natalia Peart
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole – Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche
Get the F Out Your Own Way: A Guide to Letting Go of the Sh*t that’s Holding You Back* – MJ Harris
Get Up And Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur’s Lessons on Creating Legacy and Wealth – Dana Frank
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic – Sonja Thomas & Lilly Workneh
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion – Dr. David A. Anderson
Green Power: The Successful Way of A.G. Gaston – A.G. Gaston
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law – Haben Girma
Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly
Hood Feminist: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
How Boards Work and How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World – Dambisa Moyo
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power – adrienne maree brown (eds)
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir – Shayla Lawson
How to Succeed in Business Without Being White: Straight Talk on Making It in America – Earl G. Graves
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community – Mia Birdsong
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free – Tabitha Brown
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction – Kidada E. Williams
Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote – Dinah Johnson
Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits – Emmanuel Acho
I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual – Luvvie Ajayi
I’m Not Yelling – Elizabeth Leiba
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
I’m That Girl – Jordan Chiles
Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion – Cora Daniels & John L. Jackson Jr.
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose – Alice Walker
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs
Inside Out: The Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism – Caprice D. Hollins
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education Book – Mychal Denzel Smith
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership – Colin Powell
It’s About Damn Time – Arlan Hamilton
It’s About Time: The Art of Choosing the Meaningful Over the Urgent – Valorie Burton
Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
Know What Makes Them Tick: How to Successfully Negotiate Almost Any Situation – Shonda Rhimes
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change – Stacey Abrams
Leadership Unlocked: Harness the Power of Your Ambition – Jesse Rhodes
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir – Leslie Jones
Let Love Rule – Lenny Kravitz
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers – Valorie Burton
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina – Misty Copeland
Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women – Otegha Uwagba
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America – James Forman, Jr.
Love and Rage – Lama Rod Owens
Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear Based World – John Hope Bryant
Lovely One: A Memoir – Ketanji Brown Jackson
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew – Julius Lester
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – Antonia Hylton
Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative – Keke Palmer
Meaty: Essays – Samantha Irby
Men We Reaped – Jesmyn Ward
Mental Detox: The Power and Guidance to Implement Peace, Joy, Balance, and Financial Abundance in Your Life – Cheyenne Bryant
Miles: The Autobiography – Miles Davis
Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business From Scratch — Naturally – Miko Branch
Mom & Me & Mom – Maya Angelou
More Myself: A Journey – Alicia Keys
More than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) – Elaine Welteroth
More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty – Erica Campbell
Mo’s Bows: A Young Person’s Guide to Start-up Success – Moziah Bridges & Tramica Morris
My Bondage and My Freedom – Frederick Douglass
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies – Resmaa Menakem
My Life: Queen of the Court – Serena Williams
My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing & Hope – Karamo Brown
Nothing is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly – Nicole Walters
Nothing Personal – James Baldwin
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements – adrienne maree brown (eds)
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All – Deborah G. Plant
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope – DeRay Mckesson
On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life’s Great Labors – Brandi Sellerz-Jackson
Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History – Rozella Kennedy
Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
Own Your Phenomenal Self: A Guide on Character, Success, & Leadership – Rita P. Mitchell
Playing the Game Without a Coach: How Courage, Resilience and Forgiveness Helped One Man Seize the American Dream – Benjamin Raymond
Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes – Phoebe Robinson
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good – adrienne maree brown
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – Susana M. Morris
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks – Crystal Wilkinson
Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success Without Losing Your True Self – DeVon Franklin
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear Fighter Manual – Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Purple Harvest: Planting Goals, Growing Truths – Dr. Rashonda Harris
Purpose Driven Leadership: Building and Fostering Effective Teams – Brigette Tasha Hyacinth
Quantum Leaps: 10 Steps to Help You Soar – Gloria Mayfield Banks
Queer Eye: Love Yourself, Love Your Life – Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, & Karamo Brown
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation – Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding – Ben Jealous & Trabian Shorters
Reimagine Equity: Leading Strategically to Fulfill the Promise of DEI – James Whitfield & Kristen Whitfield
Responsible Marketing – Lola Bakare
Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey – Alvin Ailey & A. Peter Bailey
Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace – Minda Harts
Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life – Daymond John & Daniel Paisner
Self-Esteem is the New Black: How to become the confident woman you have always wanted to be! – Monique Mays
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself – Nedra Glover Tawwab
Singing Away the Hunger – Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use – Amanda Seales
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir – Ashley C. Ford
Speaking Truth to Power – Anita Hill
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Ibram X. Kendi
Standing Above the Crowd – James Donaldson
Starting at Zero – Jimi Hendrix
Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career – Carla Harris
Strength to Love – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, and Selective Amnesia – Moe Anderson
Success Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My Nose and Found My Passion – Lisa Price & Hilary Beard
Successful Women Think Differently: 9 Habits to Make You Happier, Healthier & More Resilient – Valorie Burton
Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All – Russell Simmons
Swimming with Sharks in Dark Waters – Athene Brinson
Talk it Up!: A Guide to Successful Public Speaking – David Suk Brown & Danny Suk Brown
Talk to Me Nice: The Seven Trust Languages for a Better Workplace – Minda Harts
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Art of Ronin Leadership – Mike Howard
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X & Alex Haley
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell – W. Kamau Bell
The Beautiful Ones – Prince
The Black Girl’s Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams – Paris Woods
The Black Woman Millionaire: A Revolutionary Act that DEFIES Impossible – Dr. Venus Opal Reese
The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love – Sonya Renee Taylor
The Book of Awesome Black Americans – Monique Jones
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions – Quincy Jones
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding – Julian Randall
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto – Charles Blow
The Elevation Approach – Tina Wells
The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility – Marilyn Gist
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
The Gatekeepers Are Gone: Hustle + Technology = Success – Lamar Tyler
The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish
The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women – Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, & Rhonda Joy McLean
The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation – John Hope Bryant
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table – Minda Harts
The Mentor Leader – Tony Dungy
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire – Robert E. Weems
The Mind of a Winner – Steve Canal
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl – Issa Rae
The One Week Budget – Tiffany Aliche
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose – Oprah Winfrey
The Perfect Day to Boss Up – Rick Ross & Neil Martinez-Belkin
The Power of Broke – Daymond John
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart – Alicia Garza
The Pursuit of Happyness – Chris Gardner
The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race – Melanye Price
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery – Sarah Lewis
The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond – Lillian Lincoln Lambert
The Secrets to Success: When You Want to Succeed as Bad as You Want to Breathe – Eric Thomas
The Souls of Queer Folk: How Understanding LGBTQ+ Culture Can Transform Your Leadership Practice – Dr. Joel A. Davis Brown
The Source of Self-Regard – Toni Morrison
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
The Transformational Consumer – Tara-Nicholle Nelson
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey – Kamala Harris
The Urgent Life – Bozoma Saint John
The Wealth Choice: Secret Success of Black Millionaires – Dennis Kimbro
The Work: Searching for a Life that Matters – Wes Moore
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home – Bayo Akomolafe
Thick: And Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism – Don Lemon
Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga: Rest, Reflect, Renew – Gail Parker
Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms – Shellye Archambeau
Unbowed – Wangari Maathai
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Unprecedented: The Masters and Me – Tiger Woods & Lorne Rubenstein
Up from Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed – John Hope Bryant
Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us – Sherrell Dorsey
We Are Bridges – Cassandra Lane
We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power – Rachel Rodgers
We Will Not Cancel Us – adrienne maree brown
Werk 101: Get Your Life Together Guide – Koereyelle DuBose
What I Know for Sure – Oprah Winfrey
When Leadership Matters – Robert Britten
When the Miracle Drops: How Instagram Helped Turn a Quick Fix Into a Million-Dollar Product – Jessica Dupart
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Where You Are is Not Who You Are – Ursula Burns
White Girls – Hilton Als
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? – Reginald Lewis & Blair S. Walker
Wildflower: A Memoir – Aurora James
Will – Will Smith
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators – Susanne Tedrick
Worthy – Jada Pinkett Smith
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison – Shaka Senghor
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person – Shonda Rhimes
You Are Before the World: Lessons on Doing Good without Being Undone – Tara Jaye Frank
You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World – Maya Penn
You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why – Eric Thomas, PhD
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America – Karen Arrington
You’ve Got to Be Hungry: The Greatness Within to Win – Les Brown
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
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2025 Native American & Alaska Native Authored Leadership Book List
In honor of Alaska Native & Native American Month, we’ve updated our Native American & Alaska Native Authored Leadership Book List. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.
We created this list to promote leadership books by disabled authors. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.
1. A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain — Christina Crosby
2. A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome — Ariel Henley
3. Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer’s World — Thom Hartmann
4. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness — Kay Redfield Jamison
5. And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life — Nicola Griffith
6. Apocalyptic Best Practices: A unique approach to fear and change — Elisebeth VanderWeil
7. ASL Saved My Life…Until it didn’t — Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
8. Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work — Jodi Ann Burey
9. Be Different — John Elder Robison
10. Being Heumann: an unrepentent memoir of a disability rights activist — Judith E. Heumann
11. Black, Blind, In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity — David A Paterson
12. Blind: A Memoir — Belo Cipriani
13. Body, Remember: A memoir — Kenny Fries
14. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness — Susannah Cahalan
15. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure — Eli Clare
16. Calling all Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor — Temple Grandin
17. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
18. Chef Interrupted — Trevis Gleason
19. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity — Simi Linton
20. Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome — Jason Kingsley (Author), Mitchell Levitz (Author)
21. Crazy, Who Me?: My Journey as a Leader Overcoming Depression — John Panigas
22. Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity — Karen Nakamura
23. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir―and a Love Letter to a Way of Life — Coauthored by Nyle DiMarco
24. Defiant — Michael Scott Monje Jr.
25. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally — Emily Ladau
26. Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada — Liat Ben-moshe (editor), Allison C. Carey (Editor), Chris Chapman (Editor), Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)
27. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century — Alice Wong
28. Disabled Leadership — Dr. Tom A. Wiggins
29. Disarm Your Limits: The flight formula to lift you to success and propel you to the next horizon — Jessica Cox
30. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disabiity and Making Space — Amanda Leduc
31. Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives — Michelle Owen, Diane Driedger (Editor)
32. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot — John Callahan
33. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio — Anne Finger
34. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation — Eli Clare
35. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
36. Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History — Corbett O’Toole
37. Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy caught multiple sclerrosis and didn’t tell nobody — David Lander
38. Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage — Mickey Rowe
39. Feminist Queer Crip — Alison Kafer
40. Find Another Dream — Maysoon Zayid
41. Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices — Gaby Brimmer (Author), Elena Poniatowska
42. Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street — Peter Street, Lorraine Worsley-Carter (Foreword)
43. Golem Girl — Riva Lehrer
44. Haben: The deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law — Haben Girma
45. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation — Adrienne Maree Brown
46. House of Prayer No. 2 — Mark Richard
47. How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man’s Quest for Independence — Mark O’Brien, Gillian Kendall (Contributor)
48. How I See It: A Personal and Historical View of Disability — H Penny Mishkin
49. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memior — Shayla Lawson
50. I Am Not a Label — Cerrie Burnell
51. I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry from a beautiful brain — Kerenza Ryan
52. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir — Jan Grue
53. I’ll Scream Later — Marlee Matlin
54. If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny — Zach Anner
55. In the Province of Gods — Kenny Fries
56. Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom, Respect, and Inclusion — Arielle Silverman, PhD
57. Laughing at My Nightmare — Shane Burcaw
58. Life in the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education — Katie Rose Guest Pryal
59. Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstances — Mallory Weggemann
60. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s — John Elder Robison
61. Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking — Julia Bascom
62. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life — Margaret Price
63. Madness: A Bipolar Life — Marya Hornbacher
64. Marbles: Mainia, Depession Michelangelo, and Me — Ellen Forney
65. Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up — Selma Blair
66. Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir — Terry Galloway
67. More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities — Lorraine Cannistra
68. Moving Violations: Warzones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence — John Hockenberry
69. My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church — Amy Kenny
70. Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability – A Memoir — Francine Falk-Allen
71. Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment — James I. Charlton
72. On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity — Daniel Bowman Jr.
73. Planet of the Blind — Stephen Kuusisto
74. Poster Child: A Memoir — Emily Rapp Black
75. Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People — edited by Alice Wong
76. Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Sotry of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution — Judith Heumann
77. Rough Waters: From Surviving to Thriving with a Progressive Muscular Dystrophy — Heather C. Markham
78. Sick: A Memoir — Porochista Khakpour
79. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Oridinary Resilient Disabled Body — Rebekah Taussig
80. Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism — Dawn Prince-Hughes
81. Speedbumps: Florring it through Hollywood — Teri Garr
82. Staring: How We Look — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
83. Still Me — Christopher Reeve
84. Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse — Shane Burcaw
85. Successfull to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum — Karletta Abianac
86. Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening — John Elder Robison
87. The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength — Dale Archer, MD
88. The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled — Robert Francis Murphy
89. The Difference That Disability Makes — Rod Michalko
90. The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging — Hannalora Leavitt
91. The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Franklin Roosevelt
92. The Fully Recovered Mindset — Maddie Neibanck
93. The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back — Clark Elliott
94. The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory — Kenny Fries
95. The Obsessive Joy of Autism — Julia Bascom
96. The pretty one: on life, pop cultue, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me — Keah Brown
97. The Story of My Life — Helen Keller
98. The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s — Temple Grandin
99. The White Album — Joan Didion
100. The World I Live In — Helen Keller
101. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism — Temple Grandin
102. To Know As We Are Known: Education as spiritual journey — Parker Palmer
103. Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life — Harriet McBryde Johnson
104. Typed Words, Loud Voices — Various (Author), Amy Sequenzia (Editor), Elizabeth Grace (Editor)
105. Unleash Different: Achieving Business Success Through Disability — Rich Donovan
106. Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding social mysteries theough autism’s unique perspectives — Temple Grandin
107. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled — Nancy Mairs
108. Walking Papers: The Accident that Changed My Life, and the Business that Got Me Back on My Feet — Francesco Clark
109. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life — Smantha Irby
110. What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt — Tessa Miller
111. When the Chant Comes — Kay Ulanday Barrett
112. Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability — Paul K. Longmore
113. Wishful Drinking — Carrie Fisher
114. Year of the Tiger: An Activists Life — Alice Wong
115. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me — Sherman Alexie
133 Leadership Books Written by Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx Authors (2025)
In honor of Latin American History Month, we updated our list of leadership books with 132 leadership books written by Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx authors. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.
1. Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from a Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quinones-Hinjosa
2. [Un]framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and othe rebels with a cause by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
3. The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are by Alicia Menendez
4. You Don’t Hae to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent
5. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice by Alma Zaragoza-Petty
6. The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of Us All by Andrés Tapia (coauthor)
7. The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self Care by Anna Borges
8. In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil LIberties in the Age of Terror by Anthony D. Romero
9. Frida by Barbara Mujica
10. Growing American Roots by Bob Menendez
11. Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García. et al.
12. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race by Caprice Hollins and Ilsa Govan
13. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement by Carlos Munoz Jr.
14. The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light by Carlos Santana
15. In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
16. Latina Empowerment Through Leadership: Mindful Stories from Inspiring Women by Catherine Munos Garces, Monica Rivera, et al
17. Leaving Little Havana: A memoir of Miami’s Cuban ghetto by Cecilia M. Fernandez
18. More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You… and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
19. An Organizer’s Tale by Cesar Chavez
20. Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows: Learn How to Inspire Others, Acheive Greatness, and Find Success in Any Organization by Charles P. Garcia
21. Latinization and the Latino Leader: How to Value, Develop, and Advance Latino Professionals by Cristina Benitez & Marlene Gonzalez
22. Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change by Cristina Jiménez
23. The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamcis by Cyndi Suarez
24. Burnt out to Lit Up by Daisy Auger-Dominguez
25. Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace by Daisy Auger-Dominguez
26. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández
27. Undocumented: A Dominican boy’s odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
28. El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by David Hayes-Bautista
29. La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millenials by David Hayes-Bautista
30. Ready, Set, Manifest: A Handbook for the in-between and leaps in life by Debbie Lacey
31. Dream Big by Deborah Rosado Shaw
32. Latina Leadership Lessons: Fifty Latinas Speak by Delia Garcia (editor)
33. Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change by Denise Padin Collazo
34. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
35. The Story of Latinos and Education in American History by Dr. Abdín Noboa-Ríos
36. The Leadership Shift: The strategic Positioning of Latino Business Leaders by Dr. Nilda Perez
37. Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition by Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana
38. Latinx: The New Force in American Politics by Ed Morales
39. American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter
40. Dream First: How to Quit Overthinking and Make it Happen by Ellen Marie Bennett
41. Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child by Emma Gonzalez
42. Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
43. When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
44. In My Own Words: A Memoir by Eva Peron
45. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carment G. González
46. Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices by Gaby Brimmer (Author), Elena Poniatowska
47. The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger by Gaby Natale
48. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
49. Breaking Ground and Barriers: Hispanic Women Developing Effective Leadership by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D.
50. Take Charge of your Brand: Quck and simple techniques to help you own and manage your personal brand for professional and personal success by Guisselle Nuñez
51. The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success From Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto
52. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Hermina Ibarra
53. The Secret Principles of Genius: The Key to Unlocking Your Hidden Genius Potential by I.C. Robledo
54. My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calederon
55. My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende
56. The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
57. Isabel’s Hand-Me-Down Dreams by Isabel Lopez
58. Latinas in Aviation by Jacqueline S. Ruiz
59. Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use it by Jamie Margolin
60. The Buena Salud Guide to Understanding Depression and Enjoying Life by Jane Delgado
61. The Latina Guide to Health: Consejos and Caring Answers by Jane Delgado
62. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
63. Crux: A cross-border memoir by Jean Guerrero
64. ¡Rise up, Mi Gente! A Roadmap for Latinos to Acheive Success in Corporate America by Jesse A. Mejia
65. And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir by Joan Baez
66. Powerhouse Principles: The Ultimate Bluepring for REal Estate Success in an Ever-Chaning Market by Jorge Perez
67. Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels by Jorge Ramos
68. Dear America: Notes of an undocumented citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
69. From Farmworker to Astronaut by Jose Hernandez
70. Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a multicultural age by Juana Bordas
71. The Power of Latino Leadership: Culture, inclusion, and contribution by Juana Bordas
72. An Unlikely Journy: Waking up from My American Dream by Julián Castro
73. My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa Arce
74. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Conejo Villavicencio
75. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
76. Justice & Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community by Kathy Bussert-Web, Maria Eugenia Diaz, Krystal A Yanez
77. Latino and Latina Leaders of the 21st Century: Ordinary Beginnings, Extraordinary Outcomes by Kay (Kayla) S. Garcia
78. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez
79. I Got This: To Gold and Beyond by Lauren Hernandez
80. The Far Away Brothers: Two young migrants and the making of an American life by Lauren Markham
81. Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question by Lázaro Lima
82. Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto
83. Wealth Warrior: 8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market by Linda Garcia
84. Dream in Color: How the Sánchez Sisters are Making History in Congress by Linda Sánchez
85. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little pep talks for me & you by Lin-Mauel Miranda
86. Journey to the Future: A Roadmap for Success for Youth by Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch
87. The Devil’s Highway, A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
88. Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill by Luis Gutiérrez
89. Always Running: La Vida Loca – gang days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
90. Healing Journey: Surviving Domestic Violence by Lupe Valdez
91. AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes by Lynda Lopez
92. Children of the Land: A Memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
93. An American Son: A Memoir by Marco Rubio
94. Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America by Margarita Longoria
95. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa
96. Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real by Mariana Atencio
97. The Latino Advantage in the Workplace by Mariela Dabbah, Arturo Poiré
98. Taking On the System: Rules for Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
99. From the Texas Cotton Fields to the United States Tax Court, the Life Journey of Juan F. Vasquez by Mary Theresa (Terry) Vasquez, Anthony Head
100. Latino Leaders Speak: Personal Stories of Struggle and Triumph by Mickey Ibarra (editor), Maria Pérez-Brown (Editor)
101. Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito
102. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez
103. Mean by Myriam Gurba
104. Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneuers by Nathalie Molina Niño
105. Hermanas: Deepening our identity and growing our influence by Natialia Kohn Rivera
106. Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self Reliant and Rich in Every Way by Nely Galán
107. Spirit Run: A 6000 Mile Marathon Through America’s Stolen Land by Noe Alvarez
108. Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
109. Tias and Primas, On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
110. Latinas Rising Up in HR: Inspirational Stories of Human Resources Professionals Leading, Thriving, and Breaking Barriers by Priscilla Guasso
111. Bird of Paradise: How I became a Latina by Raquel Cepeda
112. The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco
113. Me by Ricky Martin
114. Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno
115. Brown Church: Five centuries of Latina/o Social justice, theology, and identity by Robert Chao Romero
116. Autentico: The definitive guide to Latino career success by Robert Rodriguez
117. Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Develop Hispanic Professionals by Robert Rodriguez
118. Get Rooted: Reclaim Your Soul, Serenity, and Sisterhood Throughthe Healing Medicine of the Grandmothers by Robyn Moreno
119. Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing up Mexican American by Rose Castillo Guilbault
120. Homeless by Choice by Roy Juarez Jr.
121. Presevere with Power: What Heaven Starts, Hell Cannot Stop by Samuel Rodriguez
122. A House of My Own: Stories From My Life by Sandra Cisneros
123. Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell (Editor)
124. This Little World: A How-To Guide for Social Innovators by Shelly Kurtz
125. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN: A MEMOIR OF COURAGE by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
126. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
127. Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
128. Hispanic Women Seeking Higher Leadership Roles in Business by Syliva C. Motta, PhD
129. Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist―A Latina Engineer’s Odyssey from the Brownies to NASA by Sylvia Acevedo
130. Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets and Rising Together by Valerie Aloe
131. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family by Yasmin Ramirez
In honor of Women’s History Month, we created this list of 500+ 2025 leadership books written by women, and by people who identify as women. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked in any particular order.
[Un]framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and othe rebels with a cause by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
#Not Your Princess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors)
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entreprenuership and Leadership by Kathey Porter
A House of My Own: Stories From My Life by Sandra Cisneros
A Mythic Life: Learning to live our greater story by Jean Houston
A Passion for the Possible: A guide to realizing your true potential by Jean Houston
Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos
After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love by Alexandra Elle
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
All Bout Love by Bell Hooks
All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King
Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa
And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir by Joan Baez
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life by Nicola Griffith
Annapurna: A woman’s place by Arlene Blum
AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes by Lynda Lopez
Apocalyptic Best Practices: A unique approach to fear and change by Elisebeth VanderWeil
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standig Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Laeanne Betasamosake Simpson
Ask For It: How women can use the power of negotiation to get what they really want by Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever
ASL Saved My Life…Until it didn’t by Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah Miranda
Balancing Work and Life: The Nia guide for Black Women by Sheryl Huggins, Cherly Mayberry McKissack
Bamboozled: How God Tricked Me inot the Life of My Dreams by Yvonne Orji
Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Sharon Lee
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Being Heumann: an unrepentent memoir of a disability rights activist by Judith E. Heumann
Believe Bigger: Discover the Path to Your Life Purpose by Marshawn Evans Daniels
Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do by Jennifer Eberhardt
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bird of Paradise: How I became a Latina by Raquel Cepeda
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham
Black Indian: A memoir by Shonda Buchanan
Black Power Inc.: The New Voices of Success by Cora Daniels
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook for Love and Success by Charreah Jackson
Boundaries by Maya Lin (artist)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing by Erin Jones
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Caring: A feminine apporach to ethics and moral education by Nel Noddings
Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction,Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life by Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Carolyn M. Brown
Come into My Office: Stories from an HR Leader in Silicon Valley by Mai Ton
Common Fire: Leading lives of commitment in a complex world by Sharon Parks, et. al.
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee, Diane Elliott-Lee
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies by Joanne Barker
Crux: A cross-border memoir by Jean Guerrero
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, woment, places by Ursula LeGuin
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown
Dear Female Founder: 66 Letters of Advice from Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Made $1 Billion in Revenue by Lu Li
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
Disarm Your Limits: The flight formula to lift you to success and propel you to the next horizon by Jessica Cox
Dog Flowers: A Memoir by Danielle Geller
Double Down: Bet on Yourself and Scuceed on Your Own Terms by Antionette M. Clarke, Tricia Clarke-Stone
Dream Big by Deborah Rosado Shaw
Dream in Color: How the Sánchez Sisters are Making History in Congress by Linda Sánchez
Driven by Intention: Own Your Purpose, Gain Power, and Pursue Your Passion as a Woman at Work by Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Drop the Ball: Achieving more by doing less by Tiffany Dufu
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan
Eat, Pray, Love: One woman’s search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesisa by Elizabeth Gilbert
Edge: Turning Adversity Into Advantage by Laura Huang
Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio by Anne Finger
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive by Dorie Clark
Everybody’s Got Something by Robin Roberts & Veronica Chambers
Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success Froma a Wall Street Vet by Carla A. Harris
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing up Mexican American by Rose Castillo Guilbault
Fault Lines: A Memoir by Meena Alexander
Feeling Power: Emotions and education by Megan Boler
Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer
Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child by Emma Gonzalez
Fierce Conversations: Achieving success at work & in life, one conversation at a time by Susan Scott
Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valarie Jarret
Finding Our Way: Leadership for uncertain times by Margaret Wheatley
Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice by Karen Chen
Frida by Barbara Mujica
FutureProofed: How to Navigate Disruptive Change, Find Calm in Chaos, and Succeed in Work & Life by Natalia Peart
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur by Cara Alwill Leyba
God is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine deLoria, Jr.
Great Asian Americans: Ellison Onizuka by Stephanie Cham
Great Asian Americans: Michelle Kwan by Stephanie Cham
Great Asian Americans: Patsy Mink by Stephanie Cham
Great Asian Americans: Tammy Duckworth by Stephanie Cham
Great Asian Americans: Yo-Yo Ma by Stephanie Cham
Grit: The power of passion and perseverence by Angela Duckworth
Haben: The deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Hawaii’s Story by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono (politician)
Hermanas: Deepening our identity and growing our influence by Natialia Kohn Rivera
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hispanic Women Seeking Higher Leadership Roles in Business by Syliva C. Motta, PhD
Hood Feminist: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life by Joanna Barsh
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power by adrienne maree brown (eds)
How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family by Sonora Jha
Deborah Smith Pegues by Sally Helgesen (& Marshall Goldsmith)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry from a beautiful brain by Kerenza Ryan
I Got This: To Gold and Beyond by Lauren Hernandez
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston (author)
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve by Kate White
I’m Judging You: The do-better manual by Luvvie Ajayi
I’m the One That I Want by Margaret Cho
In a Different Voice: Psychological theory and women’s development by Carol Gilligan
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist prose by Alice Walker
In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine by Donna M. Loring
Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace by Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace, & The Will To Change by Jennifer Brown
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez
Isabel’s Hand-Me-Down Dreams by Isabel Lopez
It Takes Moxie by Maureen Francisco
It’s About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton
It’s About Time: The Art of Choosing the Meaningful Over the Urgent by Valorie Burton
Journey to the Future: A Roadmap for Success for Youth by Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch
Just as I am by Cicely Tyson
Know What Makes Them Tick: How to successfully negotiate almost any situation by Shonda Rhimes
Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Genting What You’re Worth by Mika Brzezinski
Lakota Woman by Mary Brave Bird
Latina Empowerment Through Leadership: Mindful Stories from Inspiring Women by Catherine Munos Garces, Monica Rivera, et al
Latinas in Aviation by Jacqueline S. Ruiz
Latinas Rising Up in HR: Inspirational Stories of Human Resources Professionals Leading, Thriving, and Breaking Barriers by Priscilla Guasso
Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition by Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
Leadershp the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless strategies from the first lady of courage by Robin Gerber
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneuers by Nathalie Molina Niño
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough
Leaving Little Havana: A memoir of Miami’s Cuban ghetto by Cecilia M. Fernandez
Legal Heroes in the Trump Era: Be Inspired. Expand Your Impact. Change the World. by Tahmina Watson
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstances by Mallory Weggemann
Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women by Otegha Uwagba
Living for Change by Grace Boggs
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
Madame Wu Chien-shiung: The First Lady Of Physics Research by Tsai-chien Chiang
Marbles: Mainia, Depession Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
Martina by Martina Navratilova
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entreprenuers Who Want to Go Big by Julia Pimsleur
Mindset: The new psychology of success by Carol Dweck
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business From Scratch — Naturally by Micho Branch
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys
More than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
More Than Pretty: Doing the Sould Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty by Erica Campbell
More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You… and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
Multipliers: How the best leaders make everyone smarter by Liz Wiseman
Muscogee Daughter: My sojourn to the Miss America Pageant by Susan Supernaw
My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa Arce
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi (business)
My Life: Queen of the Court by Serena Williams
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy Williams
My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calederon
Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: Unonscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel, PhD
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative by Ignatia Broker
Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake by Diane C. Fujino
Nooping: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements by adrienne maree brown (eds)
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa
One Life by Megan Rapinoe and Emma Brockes
Own It: The Power of Women at Work by Sallie Krawcheck
Own Your Phenomenal Self: A Guide on Character, Success, & Leadership by Rita P. Mitchell
Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real by Mariana Atencio
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood by Maude Kegg
Postcolonial Leadership, A: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges by Hee An Choi
Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose by Lauren McGoodwin
Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy
Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes by Billie Jean King
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carment G. González
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Purpose Driven Leadership: Building and fostering effective teams by Brigette Tasha Hyacinth
Radical : Fighting to Put Students First by Michelle Rhee
Radical Candor: Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity by Kim Scott
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
Reality Is Broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world by Jane McGonigal
Recovering the Sacred: The power of naming and claiming by Winona LaDuke
Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Representation Matters: How Victory Fund, Victory Institute, and LGBT Leaders are Transforming America by Karen Ocamb
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts
Rising Strong: How the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, prent, and lead by Brene Brown
Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno
Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World by Stephanie Schriock & Christina Reynolds
Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a multicultural age by Juana Bordas
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self Reliant and Rich in Every Way by Nely Galán
Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen Degeneres
Serving in Silence by Margarethe Cammermeyer
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García. et al.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Oridinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use by Amanda Seales
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Speedbumps: Flooring it through Hollywood by Teri Garr
Stand Out: How to find your breakthrough idea and build a following around it by Dorie Clark
Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Still life with Rice by Helie Lee
Strategize to Win: The New Way to Star Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career by Carla Harris
Successful Women Think Differently: 9 Habits to Make You Happier, Healthier & More Resilient by Valorie Burton
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Swimming with Sharks in Dark Waters by Athene Brinson
Take Charge of your Brand: Quck and simple techniques to help you own and manage your personal brand for professional and personal success by Guisselle Nuñez
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom by bell hooks
That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (And Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together by Joanne Lipman
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
The Black Widow’s Guide to Killer Pool: Become the Player to Beat by Jeanette Lee
The Book of Awesome Black Americans: cientific Pioneers Trailblazing Entrepreneuers, Barrier-Breaking Activists and AFro-Futurists by Monique jones
The Buena Salud Guide to Understanding Depression and Enjoying Life by Jane Delgado
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir by Anchee Min
The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging by Hannalora Leavitt
The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace by Ruchika Tulshyan
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
The Far Away Brothers: Two young migrants and the making of an American life by Lauren Markham
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (Latin America Otherwise) by Gloria Anzaldua
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
The Holly Woodlawn Story: A Low Life in High Heels by Holly Woodlawn
The Holy Intimacy of Strangers by Sarah York
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez
The Latina Guide to Health: Consejos and Caring Answers by Jane Delgado
The Leadership Shift: The strategic Positioning of Latino Business Leaders by Dr. Nilda Perez
The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are by Alicia Menendez
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women by Elaine Meryl Brown; Marsha Haygood; Angela Burt-Murray
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks To You by Julie Zhuo
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School by Selena Rezvani
The Obsessive Joy of Autism by Julia Bascom
The One Week Budget by Tiffany Aliche
The Power of Latino Leadership: Culture, inclusion, and contribution by Juana Bordas
The pretty one: on life, pop cultue, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me by Keah Brown
The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the political uses of race by Melanye Price
The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond by Lillian Lincoln Lambert
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
The School Days of an Indian Girl, and an Indian Teacher Among Indians by Zitkala-Sa
The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within by Tae Yun Kim (martial artist)
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
The Transformational Consumer: Fuel a lifelong love affair with your customers by helping them get healthier, wealthier, and wiser by Tara-Nicholle Nelson
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Silko
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Conejo Villavicencio
The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger by Gaby Natale
The White Album by Joan Didion
The World I Live In by Helen Keller
Thick Face, Black Heart: The warrior philosophy for conquering the challenges of business and life by Chin-Ning Chu
Thrive: The Thrid Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Truth or Dare: Encounters with power, authority, and mystery by Starhawk
Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding social mysteries theough autism’s unique perspectives by Temple Grandin
Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us by Sherrell Dorsey
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
Werk 101: Get Your Life Together Guide by Koereyelle DuBose
What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
What Will it Take to Make a Woman President? by Marianne Schnall
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan
Whiteness Visible: The meaning of whiteness in American literature and culture by Valerie Babb
Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Nativve American Film and Video by Beverly Singer
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Women of Color in Tech: A Bluepring for Inspiing and Menotring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators by Susanne Tedrick
Women’s Ways of Knowing (10th Anniversary Edition): The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind by Mary Field Belenky, et. al.
You Are a Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself, and Do It Now by Tiffany Pham
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America by Karen Arrington
Force Majeure: A Futurist’s Guide to Boldly Thriving on Your Terms in the Future of Work by Dr. Terri Horton
Blue Ocean Strategy by Renee Mauborgne
101 Reasons to Get Out of Bed by Natasha Milne
In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman
Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
The Change Masters by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Groundswell by Charlene Li
Open Leadership by Charlene Li
Leadereship and the new Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World by Margaret Wheatley
Nimble, Focused, Feisty: Organizational Cultures that Win in the New Era and How to Create Them by Sara Roberts
Key to Yourself by Dr. Venice Bloodworth
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Slide-ology by Nancy Duarte
Resonate by Nancy Duarte
The Shift by Lynda Gratton
Hot Sports by Lynda Gratton
The 100 Year Life by Lynda Gratton
The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova
The Moonshot Effect by Kate Purmal & Lisa Goldman
Branding Pays by Karen Kang
The End of Competative Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality by Lori Greiner
I’d Rather Be In Charge by Charlotte Beers
Think Like a Negotiator by Eldonna Lewis Fernandez
ROAR: How to Build a Resilient Organization by Sandy Asch
Bridge Builders by Maria Keckler
#Values by Dr. Betty Uribe
Leading by My Ponytail by Karen M. Walker & Judy Ducharme
Business as Unusual by Anita Roddick
Thanks for the Feedback by Sheila Heen & Douglas Stone
The New Social Learning by Marcia Conner
Show Your Work by Jane Bozarth
Darling, You Can’t Do Both by Janet Kestin & Nancy Vonk
How to Wow by Francsis Cole Jones
All the Leader You Can Be by Suzanne Bates
Profit from the Positive by Senia Maymin & Margaret H. Greenberg
Awakening Compassion at Work by Jane Dutton & Monica Worline
Leading so People Will Follow by Erika Andersen
It’s Not Rocket Science: 7 Game Changing Traints for Uncommon Success by Mary Spio
Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter
A to Z: Your Navigator to Success by Chin-Ning Chu
Rising to the Challenge, My Leadership Journey by Carly Fiorina
Rookie Smarts by Liz Wiseman
The Theat and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity by Peggy Holman
Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert’s Roadmap to Getting Out There by Morra Aarons-Mele
Notorious BIG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
The New IT: How Technology are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age by Jill Dyche
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace by Mikaela Kiner
Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion by Rebekah Bastian
Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating of Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshyan
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead End-Work by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart
Show Your Worth: 8 Intention Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work by Shelmina Babai Abji
Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work by Julie Pham, PhD
Power Your Purpose: A Leader’s Guide to Creating a Better Life and a Better World by Shian Chuan
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha Lapointe
Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie
Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence by Nicola I. Campbell
White Magic by Elissa Wshuta
An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Native American DNA by Kim TallBear
Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch’in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
Blonde Indian: an Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
Cormorant Hunter’s Wife by Joan Naviyuk Kane
Roughly for the North by Carrie Ayagduk Ojanen
Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends & Stories by Ticasuk Emily Ivanoff Brown
Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History by Rozella Kennedy
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Francis Winters
Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
How Boards Work and How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World by Dambisa Moyo
Chasing Youth Culture and Getting it Right: How Your Business Can Profit by Tapping Today’s Most Powerful Trendsetters and Tastemakers by Tina Wells
Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms by Shellye Archambeau
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
Black Entrepreneuer Survival Guide: The complete guide to becoming a successful African American entrepreneuer by Dunneille D. Anderson
CEO of My Soul: The Self-Love Journey of a Small Business Owner by Nic Cober Esquire
Success Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My Nose and Found My Passion by Lisa Price & Hilary Beard
We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power by Rachel Rodgers
9 Laws of Success: Attracting the Life, Love, Health & Success You Want! by Stormy Wellington
Self-Esteem is the New Black: How to become the confident woman you have always wanted to be! by Monique Mays
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendshop, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
The Black Woman Millionaire: A Revolutionary Act that DEFIES Impossible by Dr. Venus Opal Reese
When the Miracle Drops: How Instagram Helped Turn a Quick Fix Into a Million-Dollar Product by Jessica Dupart
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose by Oprah Winfrey
Mental Detox: The Power and Guidance to Implement Peace, Joy, Balance, and Financial Abundance in Your Life by Cheyenne Bryant
Quantam Leaps: 10 Steps to Help You Soar by Gloria Mayfield Bangs
Meaty: Essays by Smantha Irby
Where You Are is Not Who You Are by Ursula Burns
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A guide to reclaiming yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
I’m Not Yelling by Elizabeth Leiba
Responsible Marketing by Lola Bakare
Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown
Ready, Set, Manifest: A Handbook for the in-between and leaps in life by Debbie Lacey
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Through the Dark by Yolanda Nava
Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change by Denise Padin Collazo
Justice & Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community by Kathy Bussert-Web, Maria Eugenia Diaz, Krystal A Yanez
Breaking Ground and Barriers: Hispanic Women Developing Effective Leadership by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D.
Latinization and the Latino Leader: How to Value, Develop, and Advance Latino Professionals by Cristina Benitez & Marlene Gonzalez
Latino and Latina Leaders of the 21st Century: Ordinary Beginnings, Extraordinary Outcomes by Kay (Kayla) S. Garcia
The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self Care by Anna Borges
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Hermina Ibarra
You Don’t Hae to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
Year of the Tiger: An Activists Life by Alice Wong
What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People by edited by Alice Wong
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley
Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom, Respect, and Inclusion by Arielle Silverman, PhD
How I See It: A Personal and Historical View of Disability by H Penny Mishkin
Successfull to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum by Karletta Abianac
More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities by Lorraine Cannistra
Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability – A Memoir by Francine Falk-Allen
My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny
Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged, High-Performing Teams by Anh Dao Pham
Uplifted: Journeys of Abundance, Community, and Identity by Geena Chen
Sheer Determination: Swimming Upstream in a Downstream World by Kay Hirai
Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu & Gwendolyn Mink
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Now What? 21 Days to Confidence and Clarity by Dr. Sweta Chawla
The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians by Jane Hyun
Perfect Enough: How to be happier and more productive by letting go of perfectionism by Judy T. Dang
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle Mijung Kim
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
Innovation Starts With I: Increase Your Influence. Ignite Your Impact. by Saleema Vellani
Sound Is Not Enough: The Art of Captioning for Universal Access by Svetlana Kouznetsova
I’m Speaking: Every Woman’s Guide for Finding Your Voice and Using It Fearlessly by Jessica Doyle-Mekkes
Back to Business: Finding Your Confidence, Embracing Your Skills, and Landing Your Dream Job After a Career Pause by Nancy McSharry Jensen & Sarah Duenwald
Insight by Tasha Eurich
Build your dream team: Leadership based on a passion for people by Candela Iglesis
Conversational Intelligence: How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith Glaser
Dare to Inspire by Allison Holzer
Disrupt it Yourself by Simone Ahuja
Disrupters: Success strategies from women who break the mold by Patti Fletcher
Fearless Growth by Amanda Setili
Managing Up by Mary Abbajay
Power Your Tribe by Christine Comaford
Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy by Amy Edmondson
The Future Workplace Experience by Jeanne Meister and Karen Mulcahy
The myth of the nice girl by Fran Hauser
Brave Leadership: Unleash your most confident, powerful and authentic self by Kimberly Davis
Emotional agility by Susan David
Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott
Leading gracefully: A women’s guide to confident, authentic and effective leadership by Monique Tallon
The Fearless Organization by Amy C. Edmondson
The Insiders guide to culture change by Siobhan McHale
Thinking in Bets: Making smarter decisions when you don’t have al the facts by Anne Duke
The Good Boss: 9 Ways Every Manager Can Support Women at Work by Kate Eberle Walker
The Gray Rhino by Michele Wucker
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark
The Art of Change Leadership: Driving Transformation In a Fast-Paced World by Cheryl Cran
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World by Tina Seelig
Quirky: the remarkable story of how traits, foibles and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world by Mellisa Schilling
The 9 types of leadership by Beatrice Chestnut
How Innovation Really Works by Ann Knott
How Women Decide by Therese Huston
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
The Managers Path by Camille Fournier
Jennifer Riel & Roger Marting by Elizabeth Shassere
Build an A team: Play to their strengths and lead them up the learning curve by Whitney Johnson
From Supervisor to Super Leader by Shanda Miller
Leading with grit by Laurie Sudbrink
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
Powerful: Building a culture of freedom & responsibility by Patty McCord
The Art of Authenticity by Karissa Thacker
The Art of Quiet Influence by Jocelyn Davis
The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership by Sally Helgesen
The influence effect: A new path to power for women leaders by Kathryn Heath, Jill Flynn and Mary Davis Holt
Women Make Great Leaders by Jill Griffin
Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional wisdom for breakthrough performance by Sara Canady
Move: How decisive leaders execute strategy despite obstacles, set backs and stalls by Patti Azzarello
The language of emotional intelligence by Jeanne Segal
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers by Michele Gelfand
The Hope Driven Leader by Libby Gill
Bad leadership: What it is how it happens why it matters by Barbara Kellerman
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women by Valerie Young
Creating Great Choices by Jennifer Riel & Roger Martin
Counter Mentor Leadership by Kelly Riggs & Robby Riggs
How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You by Kelly McDonald & Teri Schmidt
The Art of Caring Leadership by Heather Younger
The Inspiration Code by Kristi Hedges
The Leader of the Future 2 by Frances Hesselbein & Marshall Goldsmith
Unleashed by Frances Frei & Anne Morriss
I Wish I’d Known This: 6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders by Brenda Wensil & Kathryn Heath
The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness by Lolly Daskal
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You by Lydia Fenet
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks Like You by Julie Zhuo
She Thinks Like a Boss: Leadership by Jemma Roedel
Lead Like a Woman by Deborah Smith Pegues
When Women Lead by Julie Boorstin
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen & Julie Johnson
The Black Woman in Leadership’s Survival Guide by Becca Bakre & Ashley Gray
The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir by Susan Lieu
In Her Own Voice: A Woman’s Rise to CEO: Overcoming Hurdles to Change the Face of Leadership by Jennifer McCollum
Sit Down to Rise Up by Shelly Tygielski
The Boldly Inclusive Leader by Minette Norman
Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering
The Creative Way Forward: A Guide for Navigating Change in Work and Life by Jen Martin
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan
Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung
The Survival Guide for Gen X Leaders: Building the Bridge from the Great Resignation to the Multigenerational Future We All Want by Amy Morrison
Creating Equity with Gracious Space: Applications in Inclusion and Belonging by Patricia Hughes
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Be BOLD Today: Unleash Your Potential, Master Your Mindset, and Achieve Success by Leigh Burgess
A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf
Chinese Cinderella:The true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Dust track on a road by Zora Neale Hurston
Blackbird:A childhood lost and found by Jennifer Lauck
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Desert Flower by Cathleen Miller and Waris Dirie
Female Innovators at Work: women on top of tech by Danielle Newnham
Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change by Cady Coleman
It’s Not (All) Your Fault: Self-Help and the Individualization of Oppression by Sharon Podobnik
This Little World: A How-To Guide for Social Innovators by Shelly Kurtz
Joyful Living: Find Joy in the Journey by Lien Ngu
Budding Lotus in the West: Buddhism from an Immigrant’s Feminist Perspective by Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
Thrive: How Learning Can Ignite a New Way Forward by Gina Anderson
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto
Get Up And Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur’s Lessons on Creating Legacy and Wealth by Dana Frank
DEI-ing: A Guide to Navigating the Gotdamn Mess They’ve Made of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Dr. Cheryl Ingram
Purple Harvest: Planting Goals, Growing Truths by Dr. Rashonda Harris
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriot Jacobs
Death of Innocence by Christopher Benson and Mamie Till-Mobley
We are bridges by Cassandra lane
Singing away the hunger by Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel by Loretta Ross
Men we reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
All that she carried by Tiya Miles
Constructing a nervous system by Margo Jefferson
Zami:A new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde
The source of self-regard by Tony Morrison
The light we carry by Michelle Obama
Barracoon “The story of The last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD
On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life’s Great Labors by Brandi Sellerz-Jackson
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Anotonia Hylton
First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game by Nadirah Simmons
Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote by Dinah Johnson
Praiseong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free by Tabitha Brown
Nothing is Missing: A Memoir of Living Bodly by Nicole Walters
The Elevation Approach by Tina Wells
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins & Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Black, White, and The Grey by Mashama Bailey & John O. Morisano
Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid by Mikaila Ulmer
Wildflower: A Memoir by Aurora James
Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
The Black Girl’s Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams by Paris Woods
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers by Valorie Burton
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All by Deborah G. Plant
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir by Leslie Jones
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
Inside Out: The Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism by Caprice D. Hollins
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Bozoma Saint John
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Acting Up: Winning in Business and in Life Using Down-Home Wisdom by Janice Bryant Howroyd
The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility by Marilyn Gist
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
A Good Cry, What we Learn from Tears and Laughter by Nikki Giovanni
Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill
Good Night Sotries for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic by Sonja Thomas, Lilly Workneh
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Moneu, and Religion by Cora Daniels & John L. Jackson Jr.
You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World by Maya Penn
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic, Rocking Our Truth by Beverly Bond
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
We hope that you enjoyed exploring our 2025 leadership books written by women and those that identify as women. You can check out our other leadership book lists by authors who identify as Black,Hispanic/Latino/Latinx, AANHPI, Native American, and those who identify as having disabilities.
4 Tips to Avoid Sounding Arrogant When Talking About Yourself
Self-promotion is an important skill in any professional setting. Being able to talk about your accomplishments helps others understand your value. However, it’s crucial to do this subtly and skillfully to avoid sounding arrogant or boastful. Here are four common mistakes people make when talking about themselves, and tips on how to avoid them.
1. Don’t Insert Self-Promotion Randomly
It’s completely fine to talk about your accomplishments, but make sure it’s relevant to the conversation. For example, if the conversation is about what everyone did over the weekend, it’s not the right time to mention that you won a Peace Prize three years ago. Randomly inserting self-promotion can make you seem out of touch and overly self-centered. Always ensure that what you share aligns with the context of the conversation.
2. Don’t Be Indirect or Coy
Omitting details or downplaying your accomplishments can backfire. This might seem like modesty, but it can be interpreted as false humility, which can come across as arrogant. For example, if the group is discussing where everyone went to college, and you say you studied in the Boston area without mentioning that you attended Harvard, it could be seen as trying too hard to appear humble. It’s better to be open about your accomplishments to avoid misunderstandings.
3. Don’t Give Unsolicited Advice
When talking about your achievements, focus on sharing what you learned rather than telling others what they should do. For example, saying, “I did this and learned X,” is much more impactful than “I did this and you should do it too.” Offering unsolicited advice can come off as preachy and arrogant. Keep the focus on your own experience and avoid imposing your opinions on others.
4. Don’t Give a Humble Brag
A humble brag is when you try to sound modest, but it ends up sounding like a brag in disguise. For instance, saying, “I wonder why I was chosen to lead this campaign when I have the least experience on the team,” is an indirect way of highlighting your success while pretending to be modest. Instead, simply say, “I was chosen to lead this campaign,” and let the facts speak for themselves.
Conclusion: Master the Art of Subtle Self-Promotion
Talking about yourself requires practice and self-awareness. By navigating these common mistakes, you can promote your accomplishments and avoid sounding arrogant. It’s all about balance—recognizing your achievements while remaining humble and considerate of others. For more tips on professional self-promotion, check out the video on how to promote yourself without bragging.
Admitting you’re wrong at work can be challenging, but it’s an essential part of professional accountability. We all make mistakes, and acknowledging them not only shows personal responsibility but also fosters a culture where it’s okay to make errors and learn from them. Here are six tips to help you admit your mistakes gracefully, strengthen trust, and enhance respect within your team.
1. Directly Admit It
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, address it as soon as possible. Simply acknowledge the mistake and take responsibility for it. For example, say, “This happened, and I’m responsible for it.” Being upfront shows that you’re aware of the mistake and ready to own it without deflection.
2. Don’t Blame Others
Avoid placing blame on others, even if the situation was influenced by factors outside your control. Focus solely on your role in the mistake. Blaming others can undermine your credibility and erode trust within your team. Owning your part in the mistake strengthens your accountability.
3. Don’t Over-Explain
While it may be tempting to go into detailed explanations, avoid over-explaining. Providing too much information can come across as defensive and may make it seem like you’re making excuses. Keep your explanation brief and to the point, focusing on the fact that you made an error and what you plan to do about it.
4. Acknowledge the Impact
Acknowledge how your mistake may have impacted others. Be open to hearing their feedback and concerns, and invite them to share any additional effects you might not be aware of. Demonstrating empathy for how others are affected shows that you’re genuinely concerned about the team and willing to make things right.
5. Suggest a Solution
Once you’ve acknowledged the mistake, suggest a possible solution to address it. Then, invite feedback from others to see if your solution is the best one. By involving the team in finding a solution, you not only demonstrate problem-solving skills but also show that you value their input.
6. Use the Mistake as a Learning Opportunity
Talking about your mistake in other settings, such as team meetings, can signal that it’s okay to make mistakes as long as we learn from them. Sharing your experience openly with the team helps create a culture of accountability and growth. It shows that making mistakes is a part of the learning process and an opportunity to improve.
Conclusion: Strengthen Team Morale Through Accountability
Admitting you’re wrong at work and handling it with grace not only demonstrates accountability but also strengthens trust within your team. It signals that mistakes are opportunities for growth, and that learning from them is more important than perfection. By following these six tips, you can create a more open, respectful, and resilient work environment.
Burnout is a real issue that affects productivity, team morale, and the ability to achieve organizational goals. Preventing burnout is essential as people are a company’s most valuable asset. Ensuring that your team isn’t overwhelmed or constantly on the verge of burnout will improve overall well-being and contribute to a healthier, more productive work environment. Here are five practical tips to prevent burnout at work.
1. Reduce False Urgency
False urgency is when employees feel constantly busy, yet they aren’t accomplishing much. They are reacting instead of being proactive. This constant sense of urgency can lead to burnout because it keeps people in a state of stress. To reduce false urgency, take time to set clear expectations and deadlines, and make sure that team members are working toward meaningful goals. Avoid creating an environment where everyone feels the need to rush without a clear direction.
For more information on this, check out a video on how to reduce false urgency at work. https://curiositybased.com/reduce-false-urgency-at-work/
2. Encourage Taking Breaks
Trust your team to manage their workload and encourage them to take breaks during the day. Regular breaks can help break up the monotony of the workday and refresh the mind. Whether it’s taking a lunch break, stepping outside for a walk, or running errands, allowing employees to take breaks can help prevent burnout. It’s important to also model this behavior by taking breaks yourself. Leading by example helps normalize taking time to recharge.
3. Make Time to Reflect, Connect, and Celebrate
Creating a culture of recognition and appreciation is crucial. Employees need to feel valued not only for their work but for their humanity. Regularly connecting with your team and celebrating milestones or achievements fosters a sense of pride and accomplishment. You can implement team-building activities or icebreakers to enhance the work environment and encourage meaningful relationships. Taking time to reflect on successes and challenges will help build a supportive and balanced workplace.
4. Have Companywide Breaks
At CuriosityBased, a companywide break is implemented every quarter where everyone takes time off to rest and recharge. While not all companies may have the resources to provide an entire week, implementing shorter breaks—such as a half-day or a day each month—can have a big impact. Alternatively, providing employees with paid time off on holidays can help them disconnect and rejuvenate, reducing the risk of burnout.
5. Have a Backup Plan
Sometimes, employees feel pressured to do everything themselves, believing they are the only ones who can get the job done. This can lead to burnout when employees feel that the work will fall apart without them. To prevent this, establish a clear backup plan. Let employees know that if they are absent, there’s a temporary solution in place. Whether that means pausing the work or delegating it to someone else, having a plan in place reduces stress and ensures continuity.
Conclusion: Preventing Burnout is Key
Burnout is a real issue, but it is far easier to prevent than to recover from. By applying these five tips—reducing false urgency, encouraging breaks, reflecting and celebrating achievements, scheduling companywide breaks, and having a backup plan—you can help your team avoid burnout and create a healthier work environment.
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How to Plan an Interactive Online Experience: Essential Logistics
Planning an interactive online experience requires thoughtful preparation and attention to detail. Whether you’re hosting a workshop or creating content, the logistics of an online event can make or break the experience. In this post, you’ll find three essential tips on how to plan an interactive online experience to help ensure smooth event management and make your online event a success.
1. Test the Technology
Technology is always evolving, and what worked last month might not work the same way this month. That’s why testing the technology beforehand is crucial. Make sure your slide deck displays correctly, the sound quality is clear, and the polls are functioning properly. To get a complete picture, launch your presentation from your computer and then call in using your phone. This allows you to experience the event from a user’s perspective and helps you identify any issues that could arise.
2. Schedule a Rehearsal
Rehearsals are essential for any online event. If you’re working with others to facilitate the event, schedule a rehearsal to go through the flow of the event. This allows you to clarify who will speak when, work out transitions, and make last-minute adjustments. If you’re facilitating solo, try rehearsing with coworkers or asking a friend for support. A rehearsal helps you get comfortable with the setup and ensures everything runs smoothly during the event.
3. Set Up Guidelines for Participants
To ensure full participant engagement, provide clear guidelines. This can include instructions embedded in your slides or a follow-along document. If you anticipate that your audience may be unfamiliar with the technology, consider offering a quick demo or adding slides that explain the features they’ll need to use during the event. Having these resources ready makes it easier for participants to follow along and engage in the experience.
Conclusion: Planning a Successful Online Experience
By following these three tips how to plan an interactive online experience —testing technology, scheduling rehearsals, and providing participant guidelines—you’ll be well on your way to creating a smooth and successful online event. These strategies will help you design engaging and interactive online experiences that leave a lasting impact. If you’re interested in diving deeper, consider exploring courses on Mastering Interactive Online Experience Design. Start learning how to create even more successful online events today.
How to Promote Yourself Professionally Without Bragging
Talking about your accomplishments is an important part of career growth. However, it can feel uncomfortable or awkward, especially when you don’t want to come across as bragging. Dr. Julie Pham shares five practical tips on how to promote yourself professionally without bragging and in a humble and impactful way. These strategies allow you to share your achievements without feeling boastful, helping you gain recognition and build stronger connections in your career.
1. Focus on the Impact
When sharing an accomplishment, shift the focus to the impact it had on others. For example, rather than just saying “I created a business development program,” talk about how it helped generate new revenue and customers for 10 independently owned restaurants. By highlighting the results and the benefits to others, you demonstrate your value without sounding self-centered.
2. Share a Lesson Learned
Talking about a lesson you’ve learned not only shows your growth but also adds value to the listener. Dr. Pham shares her experience of creating a program to connect people across different industries. In the process, she learned how to tailor her communication style to suit different audiences. By framing your accomplishments as learning experiences, you make your success relatable and valuable to others.
3. Share the Glory
When discussing your achievements, it’s a great opportunity to give credit to others involved. For example, Dr. Pham mentions how she created a program with three other inspiring entrepreneurs. By sharing the credit, you show that you value teamwork and collaboration, which also makes your accomplishment feel more genuine and grounded.
4. Share Why It Matters
When talking about your accomplishments, explain why it’s meaningful to you. Sharing the personal significance behind an achievement allows you to connect with others on a deeper level. Dr. Pham, for example, is proud of earning a graduate degree because no one in her family went to college. Providing context and showing what you value makes your accomplishments more relatable.
5. Share What Others Have Said
You can also promote yourself by referencing positive feedback you’ve received from others. For instance, Dr. Pham shares how many audience members have told her that her keynote was meaningful. This provides external validation and reinforces your achievements without you having to say much about it yourself.
Conclusion: Promoting Yourself with Confidence
Promoting yourself can be difficult, but sharing your accomplishments adds value to a conversation and helps others get to know you better. It’s not about bragging—it’s about showcasing your contributions and experiences in a way that builds connection and recognition.
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Seven Free Ways to Boost Your Creativity and Learn New Things
7 Free Ways to Boost Your Creativity and Learn Something New
If you’re looking to open yourself up to creative inspiration, here are seven free ways to boost your creativity and learn something new. These simple activities can spark fresh ideas and help you engage with the world around you in a new way.
1. Volunteer for an Unfamiliar Organization
Volunteering for a cause outside of your usual interests is an excellent way to expand your perspective and learn. Dr. Julie shares her experience volunteering with an organization that brings visitors to prisons. During her time at Monroe prison, she had meaningful conversations with incarcerated individuals, gaining incredible insights into the prison system and justice. Volunteering in unfamiliar settings can broaden your knowledge and inspire creative thinking.
2. Browse the Library’s “How-To” Section
The library is a goldmine for learning new skills—especially practical ones. Check out the “how-to” section to pick up a book on home maintenance or another topic that sparks your curiosity. Libraries offer free access to a wide variety of knowledge and skills, providing countless opportunities for creative learning.
3. Go for a Phone-Free, GPS-Free Walk in an Unknown Area
Take a walk in a new part of town without your phone or GPS. This forces you to engage your mind, look for landmarks, and navigate without technology’s help. If you get lost, you’ll have to ask for directions, turning the experience into a fun and interactive way to engage with your surroundings.
4. House Sit in a Different Neighborhood
House sitting offers a unique way to experience new environments without spending money. Look for house-sitting opportunities in different neighborhoods or house styles than you’re used to. It gives you the chance to immerse yourself in a new setting, see how others live, and embrace the experience of living in a different space for a while.
5. Talk to a Stranger
Stepping out of your comfort zone and talking to someone you don’t know can be a source of new ideas and inspiration. Unexpected conversations can offer valuable insights, historical context, and creative sparks that you might not otherwise encounter.
6. People Watch
Engage in people-watching to boost your creativity. Visit a local park, community center, or shopping mall and observe the interactions around you. As an amateur anthropologist, you’ll notice body language, behaviors, and social dynamics that can inspire new ideas. This simple activity can provide a fresh perspective on human behavior and inspire creative thinking.
7. Play Tourist in Your Own City
Tourism doesn’t have to mean traveling far. By playing tourist in your own city, you can gain a fresh perspective on familiar places. Explore with the eyes of an outsider, rediscovering hidden gems and new spots in your area. This shift in perspective can be eye-opening and inspire new creative ideas.
We hope these tips help you break out of your routine, embrace new experiences, and spark your creativity. If you found this post useful, please like and share it!
Whether you’re looking for new experiences, preparing for an upcoming staycation, or hosting out-of-town visitors, these low-budget travel activities can help you enjoy how to be a tourist for cheap in your own city.
1. Start with a Guidebook
Find a tourist guidebook for your city. These books often list activities and provide a price range for each. Just be sure to check that the prices are current, as they may change over time.
2. Check the Local Newspaper’s “Things to Do” Section
Your local newspaper will likely have a “Things to Do” section, which includes updates on upcoming events. These events will often include the cost, helping you choose options that fit within your budget.
3. Visit a Local Historical Society
Many cities have historical societies, and some even have multiple options. In Seattle, for example, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society offers pay-what-you-can pricing, making it a great low-cost way to learn about the city’s history.
4. Take the Local Bus for a Tour
Take a ride on the local bus and explore your city from a new perspective. If your city has a Hop On, Hop Off bus for tourists, Dr. Pham recommends it as a low-cost and time-efficient way to see many attractions quickly. These buses often include audio tour explainers, adding an extra layer of enjoyment to the experience.
5. Treat Yourself to a Local Food Specialty
You don’t have to go to a fancy restaurant to experience local food specialties. Instead, buy a popular food item from a market or street vendor. For instance, in Seattle, you can purchase candied smoked salmon by the pound at Pike Place Market or enjoy a Seattle hot dog topped with cream cheese.
We hope these budget-friendly tips help you start to explore how to be a tourist for cheap in your own city. If you found this post helpful, please like and share it! Also, be sure to check out our post on How to Be A Tourist for Free in Your Own City
We all fail sometimes, but learning how to embrace failure can lead to growth. Failure is not the end; it’s a stepping stone to success. Three mindset shifts are crucial as you prepare for potential failure, endure it during the process, and recover from it so you can grow stronger. Whether struggling with setbacks in work, relationships, or personal goals, these strategies will help you get stronger, overcome failure, and reframe success.
The Three Stages of Failure
There are three stages to failure: before, during, and after. Each stage requires a different mindset to handle it effectively.
1. Before Failure: Preparing for the Risk
Before taking a risk or starting a new project, it’s natural to focus on what you want to achieve and your goals. But pause to ask yourself: What will I learn, even if I don’t achieve my goals? This shift in mindset allows individuals to approach challenges with the understanding that learning from failure is just as valuable as succeeding.
2. During Failure: Embracing the Struggle
During failure, when things seem to be falling apart, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure how to solve the problem. At this point, take a moment to ask: What is this problem teaching me? This mindset helps individuals focus on the lessons being learned rather than fixating on the failure itself, turning the struggle into an opportunity for growth.
3. After Failure: Sharing and Growing
After a failure, when feelings of embarrassment or shame arise, the natural response is often to withdraw. However, it’s important to share stories of failure with others. Vulnerability can be incredibly powerful, and by sharing your experience, you can help others learn and grow as well. This models a growth mindset—showing that failure is an opportunity for self-improvement and personal development.
We hope these three mindset shifts for each stage of failure help individuals navigate their own challenges. If you found this video useful, please like and share it with others!
