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You Are Awesome

Posted June 29, 2020 in Communication, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Neil Pasricha Reviewed by: Susan MacKenzie The Premise: This is a book about resilience. I read “You are Awesome” for the first time sitting on a tropical beach. Shortly after, our world shifted personally and professionally. I then picked up the book 10 weeks into socially distancing. I couldn’t have imagined while on the beach, all the changes and reasons that would test anyone’s resilience. It turns out, whether pre-pandemic or right in the […]

The Alter Ego Effect

Posted May 28, 2020 in Communication, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Todd Herman Reviewed by: Liyana Johan The Premise: Todd Herman is a high-performance coach for ambitious people who want to achieve outrageous goals. He’s coached athletes, entrepreneurs, leaders, and companies that have become internationally known. In The Alter Ego Effect, Todd shows readers how to tap into the human imagination to create hidden versions of ourselves that help us overcome the challenges we’re facing. He takes readers on a journey of exploration to find […]

Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

Posted April 30, 2020 in Communication, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Nancy Koehn Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn highlights the profiles of five remarkable leaders and uses their profiles and stories to produce of book full of tools to help facilitate courageous leadership behaviours. Featuring Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rachel Carson – five leaders who are so drastically different in every which way, Koehn helps us to explore a specific type of leadership: […]

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Posted March 27, 2020 in Communication, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: John Carreyrou Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In Bad Blood, Wall Street Journalist John Carreyrou gives a play-by-play recounting of the rise and fall of Theranos, a media-darling silicon valley startup that fell like a house of cards and destroyed lives and reputations along the way. Carreyrou was the Journal reporter that blew open the story of Theranos despite immense pressure by an incredible cast of well connected characters and a legal team […]

Book Cover: How to own the room by Viv Groskop

How to Own The Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

Posted February 28, 2020 in Communication, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Viv Groskop Reviewed by: Leah Parkhill Reilly The Premise: Don’t let the title scare you off, if you don’t happen to be a woman. This is a great and practical book on developing solid mindset approaches to breakthrough your own inner dialogue and command a room. In the upfront framing for the book the author does set the context that the methods apply both for men and women and she regularly runs workshops for […]

The Secrets of Facilitation: The SMART Guide to Getting Results with Groups

Posted January 31, 2020 in Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Michael Wilkinson Reviewed by: Jennifer Hanna The Premise: Michael Wilkinson is the founder and managing director for Leadership Strategies – The Facilitation Company. He is one of the most influential experts in the field of facilitation. If you are a leader, trainer or facilitator, this book will provide the strategies necessary to lead actionable and impactful group sessions. Most of us have experienced meetings that were highly ineffective, and in the worst cases, went […]