This book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul’s Drag Race. It begins with their childhood and then tells of their coming out and coming to terms with their sexuality, gender and how those things impact their journey as an artist. It then follows them through their experience on Drag Race (season 11 and All Stars, All Winners), and their rise to super stardom. It’s a close glimpse into their wonderful and sometimes turbulent relationships with their friends, family, and all the people they met along their journey. And it’s an exploration of Yvie’s unique expression of drag as an art form.

Yvie Oddly’s memoir will inspire readers as Yvie candidly shares their evolution into their current identity and learning to balance their private and public personas. Readers will follow them on a journey they will sympathize with, and many may even see themselves in their struggles.

As a leader, you have a unique opportunity to influence the people around you in profound ways. To make a difference. To leave behind a lasting legacy.

International business speaker, Michael Kerr, believes you owe it to your employees and their families, to your colleagues and customers, and to yourself to embrace your role as a culture leader to create a kinder, more compassionate, and ultimately inspiring workplace that works for everyone.

Packed with practical ideas, Small Moments, Big Outcomes will help you lead with greater confidence and purpose – all while having more fun along the way.

Ultimately, it’s a reminder that it’s the small moments that often fuel the biggest outcomes!

Hall of Fame speaker Michael Kerr is a dynamic and energizing international speaker and trainer. A renowned expert on workplace culture and leadership, his nine books and celebrated blog have inspired leaders and organizations around the globe.

The rapid advance of technology and rising demand for social equity and environmental stewardship have forever altered the corporate landscape. In this new world, leadership is a way to be — not a thing to do. To succeed, leaders need to shift their focus from holding up a mirror to opening a window to appreciate and harness the lived experiences of others. Filled with practices you can use every day on the job, The Compassion Advantage holds the key to making well-informed decisions; empowering and engaging teams; delivering on goals; and creating a happier, healthier, and more productive workplace that attracts and retains the best and brightest employees.

Throughout, strategic advisor and CEO Dr. Jill Birch provides the framework for furthering your career through groundbreaking techniques in relational leadership. Combining insights from dozens of renowned CEOs and luminaries with hard-won lessons from her own storied career, Birch shares seven simple, actionable practices that will transform your leadership style. Whether you are an aspiring leader or a seasoned pro, this book will up your game, teaching you how to become more self-aware, read the room faster, rally people around a common cause, and channel your experience so that you can become a better mentor and more confident leader.

With on-the-ground examples and concrete steps you can take to start developing these skills today, The Compassion Advantage offers the strategies you need to be a better, more caring leader for the people around you.

What if you could have whatever you want, produced and provided immediately and affordably no matter how customized—with minimal environmental impact? Products, services, and experiences on demand. Just-in-time everything, everywhere, always. This radical change is already underway, as digital technologies push the production and provision of value ever closer to the moment of demand.

Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it’s transforming every industry—and our lives. Offering unparalleled foresight for leaders and innovators, they reveal how pervasive and profound this trend will be. Proximity-driven delivery represents an entirely new way to serve customers, with critical implications for corporate strategy, investing, public policy, supply chain resilience, and even sustainability. Incremental changes to existing business models won’t suffice. Through interviews and compelling examples, Proximity shares stories of the people and companies leading the way. The book places rapidly advancing technologies—from generative AI and 3D printing to lab-grown meats, renewable energy, and virtual reality—in context and explores the factors accelerating the shift toward just-in-time.

Proximity offers a playbook for business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to win this rapidly emerging game—and for each of us to consider what this revolution might mean for our lives.

Bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin looks ahead and warns that the inflation that took the world by surprise in 2021 is in fact the front of a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, and energy scarcity that will change everything.

During the pandemic, the borrowing patterns of the Canadian government inflated a national deficit by a factor of ten in just two years—and the time has come to pay for it. The ramifications of international COVID-19 spending could potentially last for decades, and inevitably one of the first manifestations of these consequences will be that central banks will lose control of interest rates, and therefore of growth and inflation targets. The genie will be out of the bottle.

That is just the first symptom of a series of cascading upheavals. Supply-chain disruptions have already shown the vulnerability of the globalist model that has fueled growth for the past decades. War has not only shown the fragility of the status quo, but has revealed diplomatic and economic rifts that promise to shift trading patterns, which means access to markets and to resources. At the same time, the precarity of the US dollar underlines the life-or-death importance of those resources, energy in particular. And consolidation of a Eurasian bloc, from Russia to China, and encompassing old enemies like Iran and former US ally Saudi Arabia, hint that the upheaval of Covid was just the beginning.

Tracking trade wars and kinetic wars, central banks and runs on banks, pipelines blown up and startups knocked down, A Map of the New Normal gives us a glimpse of a near future that will look very different from the recent past. It reminds us that our mortgage rates and job security, our grocery bills and investments, are all tied to events set in motion by governments, corporations, and black swans around the world.

Potential: an oft-used word that is both enticing and elusive—enticing because it is a “thing,” an “energy” that draws us forward, and elusive because it is often not realized amidst the clamor and stress of busy work and busy lives.

In Potential, Pam August cuts through the noise and makes potential real, relevant, and relatable, teaching how to amplify your impact by connecting the potential—within yourself as an individual, between you and your relationships, and around you in organizations. Synthesizing her learning from a decades-long career in higher education, leadership, team, and organizational development, Pam weaves stories, insights, and practical actions into an engaging experience with immediate and lasting results.

In a complicated and complex world where we are often strained, stressed, and stuck, it is possible to have energy, ease, and effectiveness—no matter the circumstance or the challenge.

And what if connecting potential was both simple and powerful? It can be! All you need is ONE mindset shift, ONE operating system, ONE core practice, and THREE dimensions of exponential impact. This is the promise that Potential delivers on.

Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It’s only when we do, that we can actively resist being manipulated, and make informed decisions that improve our lives.

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance, and empowerment, drawing on the expertise of top psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, and thought leaders. These contributors include Dr. Gabor Maté, Liz Plank, Mary Simon, Dr. Gordon Neufeld and more.

Jane Philpott has spent her life learning what makes people sick and what keeps people well. She has witnessed miracles in modern medicine. She has also watched children die of starvation in a world that has plenty of food. With Health for All, she sounds a clarion call for a radical disruption in a health care system that is broken–but not beyond repair. The vision is rooted in a deep-seated commitment to health equity.

Decades ago, a few visionary Canadian leaders put laws in place to ensure health care insurance for all. But the structures to deliver that care were never fully developed as envisioned. As a result, our health systems are not comprehensive or well-coordinated. In the wake of a pandemic, we risk it all falling apart. More than six million people have no family doctor, nor any other access to primary care. Emergency rooms are routinely closed. Exhausted health workers wonder if it will ever get better. Some say we should hand health care over to the private sector. But to abandon our commitment to publicly funded health care now would only lead to more expensive and less equitable care. Philpott outlines a different solution–an ambitious, once-in-a-generation reset of health systems with universal access to primary care teams.

In UnLeadership: Make Building Relationships Your Business, you’ll learn how to use old-fashioned, authentic, and raw humanity to lead your people and build connections. Authors Alison and Scott Stratten deliver their signature combination of business snark and timeless advice, drawing on dozens of interviews with finance, entertainment, tourism, and hospitality leaders to show you how to ditch the spreadsheets and remember how to be awesome! The book is full of case studies perfect for brand-new business leaders, solopreneurs, as well as people who run bigger teams.

Resilience is not a given. You need a strategy.

Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient.

But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could never be you. You are fabulous and at risk of burning out.

Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan.

Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves―not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.

Pelletier uses relatable stories and activities to bring her concepts into context. By working through the exercises in this practical guide, you will have a goal-oriented, custom strategy with the knowledge to implement and sustain it, to protect your health and success into the future.

“You Belong Here” is a statement that every person longs to hear. It’s the assurance that frees us to face our future because others have got our back. It’s also one of the greatest compliments we can receive. It means we are part of a community that celebrates us as one of their own—with all the love and connection that comes with that status.

In a peri-pandemic world where every day brings unpredictable shocks and surprises, the chief role of a leader is to make people feel safe to be their best and take bold risks to win. Safety and risk are not opposites. They depend on each other. People will only swing for the fences if they know they will be rewarded for their courage.

In this pioneering partnership between a renowned professional coach and an acclaimed psychiatrist, Mike Lipkin and Dr. Diane McIntosh take you on a journey to becoming a Keeper of the Safety Flame—that’s someone who creates belonging in a hybrid world, grows enriching relationships, owns their power, wins on the brink, and shows the way.

You Belong Here gives you the tools and strategies, backed by science, to create an environment where others flourish so you will too.

30 Steps to Sales Success
9 Tactics for Human-Centered Leadership
1 Book to Make Work Better

When you prove you can be a top-producing salesperson, leadership opportunities appear.

But when they do, are you prepared to grab them?

Ryan and Chad Estis weren’t.

Prepare for Impact reveals the playbook the Estis brothers used to succeed, first by using thirty simple steps to reach ambitious goals and then by following nine tactics that address how leaders can help the people on their teams achieve their potential and find fulfillment at work and in life.

Today, Ryan is a globally recognized sales and leadership expert, founding partner of ImpactEleven, and keynote speaker helping many of the world’s best-known brands deliver growth. Chad leads business operations for the Dallas Cowboys, the most valuable sports franchise on the planet.

With determination and resolve, Ryan and Chad get results and encourage strong connections. Prepare for Impact is entertaining and invites you to take action in creating your own impact, no matter where you’re at in your career. In turn, that approach will help make the world of work a better place.

Learn the mindset shifts needed to level up your mood, energy, and focus, and catapult your success! Drawing from his own experience as a screenwriter, author, and speaker, Anthony McLean combines best practices from the self-care movement with proven strategies from the business world to help you drive your life forward.

McLean shares wisdom for managing anxiety, prioritizing work-life balance, and developing self-awareness —an often-overlooked skill crucial for a successful life. You’ll discover tools to bounce back from failure, boost your confidence, and enrich your relationships.

A smart, inspiring, and motivating read, All Fired Up will help you approach every day with enthusiasm and joy.

Have you ever accomplished something amazing but been too burned out and broken to actually enjoy it?

This is the Type A Trap. The things that help us succeed early in our career—the grind, the hustle, hard work, and long hours—can be the exact things that lead us to burn out later. But because this behavior is so programmed into who we are, we don’t know any other way. We’ve gotten ahead in every aspect of life through hard work, but unfortunately, this tactic doesn’t work with burnout, which can be deceiving and sneak up on you over time. And then, before you know it, you’ve fallen into its trap.

To escape, we do what we do best—just work harder. But this only leads to more exhaustion. More disillusionment. More burnout.

So how do we stay at peak performance without burning out?

After studying, surveying, and interviewing thousands of peak performers across all different walks of life, including New York Times bestselling authors, Olympians, celebrity coaches, leading doctors, retired US Navy SEALS, Fortune 500 founders, and people like you looking for a way out of burnout’s grip, Erin Stafford has unlocked five mindset shifts to move from burnout to sustainable peak performance.

Erin’s practical and easy-to-implement tools and mindset shifts will help you break free from burnout to thrive again, and will leave you feeling motivated, reengaged, inspired, and fired up again—not only about your work, but also about your life.