Leadership Bookshelf

Radical Candor

This book is a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from years of Kim Malone Scott’s experience, and distilled clearly giving actionable lessons to the reader; it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people both love their work and their colleagues.

In The Company Of Women

With practical and inspiring advice, Grace Bonney lays out the keys to success. This book celebrates women from around the world who’ve chosen to embrace entrepreneurship and creativity within their professional lives. A diverse group of more than 100 women is featured through interviews and images in their workspaces.

Contagious You

For anyone who has sought to create change, or felt sucked into the drama and chaos of a toxic work environment, this book advances the notion that everyone at an organization is a leader - for good or for bad - and that leaders have tremendous power to influence those who follow their example.

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay eloquently offers a fresh definition for feminism based on her “understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics,” personal experiences, and a deep desire for inclusion and awareness. She addresses what womanhood implies today, what it should become, and rallies for growth and change.

The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias

Bias is the result of mental shortcuts, our likes and dislikes, and is a natural part of the human condition. Teaching you how to overcome unconscious bias, Pamela Fuller provides more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheet and a list of ways to reframe your unconscious thoughts.

The Confidence Code

Written for any woman in any stage of her career, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman give practical advice for navigating through predominately male-centered corporations to get the opportunities we want and deserve.

Lunch With Lucy

Sherry Stewart Deutschmann attributes her success to leadership through empathy. In this book, she describes how and why a company with an employee-first, empathetic leadership business model is not only a place where people are happy to work but also more profitable than it would have been otherwise.

More Than Enough

As the first Black beauty editor and youngest editor-in-chief at Condé Nast, journalist Elaine Welteroth shares personal stories about office politics, burnout, and “imposter syndrome,” encouraging readers to claim space for themselves despite naysayers or self-doubt. Welteroth shares the profound lessons and struggles of being a barrier-breaker across so many intersections.

Connection Culture

Organizations thrive when employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm. This requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization. Michael Lee Stallard’s Connection Culture provides a fresh way of thinking about leadership and offers recommendations for how to tap into the power of human connection.

The Pink Elephant

Janice Gassam Asare explores tools for effective racial dialogue, how to unpack and understand our privilege, best practices for anti-racism workshops, and strategies to break the habit of systemic racism in the workplace. For anyone looking to transfer the lessons learned in the summer of 2020 into corporate America, this is the book for you

Dare to Lead

Brene Brown is asking us to step up and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it's necessary to do good work.