Building your future with our Business Blueprint Shelf
Presenting our new Business Blueprint Shelf! This collection features books by Innovation Women members that offer cutting-edge insights and strategies for success in business and life. From mastering new technology to reimagining your professional journey, each read provides the tools to redefine your approach and achieve your goals. Let these voices inspire you to change the game.
1. Choose To Soar: Navigating Disruption in Business And Life by Annie Meehan
Author Annie Meehan offers a guide for navigating life’s challenges, or ‘storms,’ such as professional setbacks, personal crises or natural disasters. Inspired by surviving Hurricane Ian, it provides strategies and techniques to help you not just survive but to thrive and become stronger. Annie encourages readers to take control of their mindset and circumstances to soar above any disruption they face.
2. Launch: How To Take Your Business To New Heights by Lady Jen Du Plessis
Jen Du Plessis, a veteran in the mortgage lending industry, shares her expertise in this book to help professionals in business achieve greater success. Based on her experience as a top loan originator and CEO of multiple companies, the book offers practical advice on systems, goal setting and implementation. It is designed to inspire both new and experienced professionals to act and launch their careers to new heights.
3. Mastering AI in Communications: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Efficiency with AI and the CREATE Prompt Framework by Kendra Corman
Mastering AI In Communications is a guide for entrepreneurs, coaches and consultants on how to use AI to improve their communication. Author Kendra Corman introduces a practical framework for leveraging tools such as ChatGPT and Claude.ai to save time on tasks such as personalizing messages and brainstorming ideas. The book aims to demystify AI, providing clear guidance for professionals who want to enhance their communication strategies without losing their personal touch.
4. Perfect Progression by Stephany Poe
Author Stephany Poe created a fictional narrative that explores the complexities of corporate culture. It aims to shed light on issues of toxicity in the workplace by following the distinct journeys of three women. By weaving together a story with characters like a passive-aggressive boss and an insecure supervisor, the author seeks to raise awareness and offer innovative solutions for creating more responsive work settings. The book’s ultimate goal is to help foster effective communication and practices that can boost employee morale.
5. Poker Woman: How to Win in LOVE, LIFE, and BUSINESS Using the Principles of POKER by Ellen Leikind
Ellen Leikind uses poker as a metaphor to teach women how to navigate life and get what they want. It provides principles for overcoming fear and doubt, thinking strategically and understanding different personalities. The book’s goal is to empower women to apply these skills to their personal and professional lives, helping them to “get in the game” and “play to win.”
6. Re-Creating The World: The Power and Joy of Collaborative Creativity by Lisa A Kramer
Lisa A. Kramer helps readers rediscover and reignite their creative power. She offers practical advice and exercises for artists, entrepreneurs or anyone looking to reconnect with their creative spark. The book’s goal is to show how creativity can be a powerful tool for solving problems, building communities and shaping a more compassionate world.
7. Rethinking Talent Decisions: A Tale of Complexity, Technology and Subjectivity by Sharna Wiblen
In her story, Sharna Wiblen challenges traditional beliefs about talent management, arguing that key talent decisions are often subjective and flawed. She aims to revolutionize how decision-makers think about and define talent by emphasizing the power of personal judgment, and the need for deliberate, informed conversations. The guide provides insights into understanding complexity and aligning perceptions to help leaders and their teams achieve greater success.
8. Retired and Killin’ It: The Ultimate Retirement Plan by Lisa Haynes
Author Lisa J. Haynes shows readers how retirement can be the start of a bold, purpose-filled second act. Retired and Killin’ It offers a roadmap for designing life on your terms, using the KILLIN’ IT formula to plan health, identity, legacy, learning, and lifestyle. It’s a practical guide to help you move from drifting through retirement to living intentionally, creating joy, meaning, and freedom in this new chapter.
9. The Power Couple: Navigating The Roller Coaster Of Business With Your Soulmate While Raising A Family by Richelle Pena
Richelle Pena tells her personal story of how she and her husband built a successful business empire while raising a family. Using their journey as pioneers in pediatric dentistry, the authors share their secrets to success, which include innovative thinking and a strong commitment to their values. Richelle provides a blueprint for couples to balance the demands of work, family, and personal well-being, focusing on a principle of prioritizing God, Family and Business.
10. The Power Lane: Why Keeping Moms in the Workforce REVS the Economy by Heather Powers
The Power Lane presents a business case for why organizations should focus on retaining mothers in the workplace. It argues that while mothers are a vital part of the economy, many are leaving their jobs due to a lack of support for balancing work and family life. The book provides a roadmap with five accelerators and four tools to help businesses create systems and structures that empower working mothers, which in turn can accelerate the success of the business and the economy.
About the Authors
These authors are Innovation Women Content Creator members, a group of speakers who are also authors and/or podcast hosts. We’ll be spotlighting their books regularly to help you discover your next favorite read. Be on the lookout for more!
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