From The Battlefield to the Boardroom: The Infinite Desire to Win is a book that explores a
woman's journey toward success in life, business, and career. The book is structured into seven
chapters, each focusing on a unique aspect of success. From developing the right mindset in
Chapter One to transferring skills from battlefields to boardrooms in Chapter Seven, the book
provides practical advice and inspiring stories to motivate readers to pursue their goals with an
infinite desire to win.
Dr. Sonja is a highly decorated combat veteran with a 21-year military career and a mother of
three boys. She has faced numerous challenges in her life, including a harrowing divorce that left
her financially and emotionally bankrupt. However, Dr. Sonja has used her past pain to ignite her
inner strength and connect to her infinite purpose. Today, she runs an 8-figure consulting and
marketing firm and serves as a beacon for women striving to conquer their battlefields.
From The Battlefield to the Boardroom: The Infinite Desire to Win is the perfect resource for
women seeking to succeed personally and professionally by using their personal battlefields in
order to change the world and build a lifelong career. This book offers practical insights into
developing resilience, cultivating a solid network, balancing personal and professional life, and
turning setbacks into step-ups. The book is an invitation to join Dr. Sonja on a transformative
journey toward infinite success, where the lessons from the battlefield will illuminate the path to triumph in the boardroom and beyond.
First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the smart cookies who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who were in for a rude awakening because an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. But by the 1980s, as the market went into turbodrive, women were being plucked from elite campuses to feed the belly of a rapidly expanding beast, playing for high stakes in Wall Street's bad-boy culture by day and clubbing by night.
In She-Wolves, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street from the swinging sixties to 9/11--starting at a time when No Ladies signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and (more discretely) inside its brokerage houses and investment banks. If the wolves of Wall Street made a show of their ferocity, the she-wolves did so with subtlety and finesse. Research analysts signed their reports with genderless initials. Muriel Mickie Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE, threatened she'd have port-a-potties delivered if the exchange didn't finally install a ladies' room near the dining room. The infamous 1996 Boom-Boom Room class action lawsuit, filed by women at Smith Barney, pulled back the curtain on a bawdy subculture where unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm.
As engaging as it is enraging, She-Wolves is an illuminating deep dive into the collision of women, finance, and New York.
WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLER
Pick up this book now! Every woman wants to believe she is on the precipice of something major and this book gives you the tools to get yourself there. Randi Braun has created a fun and practical way forward for women who are looking to channel their inner bad-ass, crack the leadership code, and soar! - Jen Mormile, Chief Business Officer of Condé Nast
She's changing women's lives, one play at a time.
Women are natural leaders but they've been taught to play the game by an outdated set of rules. So certified executive coach, Randi Braun, wrote them a new playbook.
In Braun's book, Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work, women will discover how to play the leadership game on their own terms and win when it comes to achieving their goals: whether it's cracking the code on your self-doubt by ditching perfectionism, external validation, and the tyranny of your inner critic, or learning new tactics for owning your message (don't miss 16 things she forbids you to say at work). Braun's book provides a fresh take on one of the most tremendous challenges of our time: empowering women at work to chart their own course to the top - dialing up confidence and fulfillment, and dialing down burnout in the process.
In Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work, Braun takes the field and re-writes the plays of the game. She is a sought-after thought leader, speaker, and CEO of the women's leadership firm, Something Major. Her book delivers stories for today's women leaders in a conversational style that's packed with sage advice and wildly entertaining.
This is not your typical leadership book.
It's the story of two very different women, Judith M. Judee von Seldeneck and Aileen K. Alexander, who built their careers in two very different eras. Each started out in public service--Judee on Capitol Hill in the '60s and Aileen in the military in the '90s. Each had a front row seat to observe leaders through challenging and historic times. And they share a common purpose: widening the circle of leaders for a changing world.
In Deliberately Different, Judee, founder of Diversified Search Group, and Aileen, now DSG's CEO leading one of America's top ten executive search firms, share their inspiring leadership journeys. From Judee launching the firm early in the women's movement to Aileen steering it through this transformational era, they share tough decisions, personal memories, and observations about both the timeless qualities and essential traits for modern leaders.
Presented as an open and engaging dialogue between the authors, this book is full of entertaining and uplifting anecdotes that will be useful for executives in any industry, any generation, and any context. Their forward-thinking wisdom sets a new standard of excellence for the leaders who will shape our future--including you.
Become the leader you were born to be.
Confidence Unleashed: 10 Kick-Ass Strategies To Grow As A Leader (Without Changing Who You Are). This full-color guided workbook-inspired by a decade of mentoring young women-is the ultimate roadmap to unleashing your leadership potential and building an authentic, fulfilling career.
Did you know that 75% of female executives face imposter syndrome? Or that the most important leadership quality isn't strength, it's adaptability? In the early stages of your career, navigating the modern workplace's unwritten rules can feel impossible. But there are more opportunities than ever-if only you know where to look.
Enter Sheri West, former Fortune 500 management executive turned social entrepreneur and founder of women's leadership organization LiveGirl. West leverages her 25 years of corporate and leadership development experience to identify ten key areas of career growth necessary for women to thrive-and then shows you exactly how to achieve it.
Through a series of evidence-based strategies, you will learn how to shift your mindset, build your skills, and become the leader you were meant to be.
This workbook covers how to:
Own Your Career
Fail Forward
Embrace Imperfection
Find Your Voice
Invest in Relationship Currency
Be an Inclusive Leader
-and much more!
In her trademark engaging voice, West draws on her significant mentoring experience to support you every step of the way; sharing hard-won advice, while opening your eyes to the
opportunities all around. Confidence Unleashed is more than a guided workbook; it's a manifesto. And its message is clear: The key to a compelling, authentic career is YOU.
The broken rung is more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. Three McKinsey senior partners offer strategies for overcoming it and fulfilling your potential.
Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women overall and 77 women of color get promoted.
This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and MarÃa del Mar MartÃnez call the broken rung, and its effects compound throughout women's careers, causing them to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up. In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem's underlying cause: while about half of a person's lifetime earnings come from education and half from work experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. It is also here, in one's work experience, that the solution lies: women need to build their experience capital to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential.
The book combines over a decade of research, personal conversations with more than fifty remarkable leaders, and the authors' own rich experiences as leaders at McKinsey. They weave data on the potential pitfalls with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung using strategies that increased their experience capital.
Leaders and companies must do more to address gender inequalities in the workplace. But you don't have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the career ladder and reaching your full potential at work.
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A landmark manifesto (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.
In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to sit at the table, seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can't do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.
If you had more confidence, what decisions would you make? What risks would you take? What dreams would you chase?
For women, confidence is often associated with doing it all-and doing it perfectly. When I earn that promotion, lose ten pounds, or meet the person of my dreams...then I'll feel confident. We've been bombarded with messaging telling us to be confident, but no one has told us how. Speaker, leadership strategist, and coach Nicole Kalil is changing that.
In Validation Is for Parking, Nicole provides a comprehensive guide for building internal trust and reclaiming confidence, a skill built from the inside out. You'll learn how to create boundaries, give yourself grace, and overcome the five most common derailers that impede progress and contribute to unhealthy patterns. This is a journey in which there are no shortcuts, but Nicole provides the guidance and support you need to break free from limiting narratives. A book for all women, Validation Is for Parking is an uplifting exploration of the untruths we believe and the internal antidotes that teach us to trust ourselves and become who we're meant to be.
Working women have an equilibrium problem.
We have more options for what to do with our lives than at any time in history, but too often that abundance of choices leads us on a mythical quest to have it all. As we try to excel in the many roles we take on, it feels like balance is an impossible dream-and our health and our relationships suffer as a result. Through interviews with more than seventy women of all ages, this book will explore common traps that may be holding you back from true fulfillment and provide strategies to help you restore much-needed balance in your life.
Starting a business can be daunting, scary, and exciting, all at once; so too can starting a family. But they can coexist--as the incredible roster of women in this book demonstrate, entrepreneurship can be both a sustainable and fulfilling model for working motherhood. Each woman profiled here shares insights from her journey as well as powerful lessons and practical advice, including:
Filled with first-person stories of designers, makers, CEOs, farmers, pastry chefs, artists, lawyers, educators, and more, Mother / Founder captures with unprecedented candor the unique challenges and joys of what it means to launch and run a business while being just as fiercely dedicated to raising children.
The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and updated with a new introduction
Confidence. We want it. We need it. But it can be maddeningly enigmatic and out of reach. The authors of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics deconstruct this essential, elusive, and misunderstood quality and offer a blueprint for bringing more of it into our lives.
Is confidence hardwired into the DNA of a lucky few, or can anyone learn it? Is it best expressed by bravado, or is there another way to show confidence? Which is more important: confidence or competence? Why do so many women, even the most successful, struggle with feelings of self-doubt? Is there a secret to channeling our inner confidence?
In The Confidence Code, journalists Katty Kay and Claire Shipman travel to the frontiers of neuroscience on a hunt for the confidence gene and reveal surprising new research on its roots in our brains. They visit the world's leading psychologists who explain how we can all choose to become more confident simply by taking action and courting risk, and how those actions change our physical wiring. They interview women leaders from the worlds of politics, sports, the military, and the arts to learn how they have tapped into this elemental resource. They examine how a lack of confidence impacts our leadership, success, and fulfillment.
Ultimately, they argue, while confidence is partly influenced by genetics, it is not a fixed psychological state. That's the good news. You won't discover it by thinking positive thoughts or by telling yourself (or your children) that you are perfect as you are. You also won't find it by simply squaring your shoulders and faking it. But it does require a choice: less people pleasing and perfectionism and more action, risk taking, and fast failure.
Inspiring, insightful, and persuasive, The Confidence Code shows that by acting on our best instincts and by daring to be authentic, women can feel the transformative power of a life on confidence.
In We Should All Be Millionaires, Rachel Rodgers--Black woman, mother of four kids, and self-made millionaire--shared her personal story of how she climbed from crushing debt and financial stress to wealth and abundance, running a multi-million-dollar company.
Her book inspired thousands of readers to construct a new attitude about money, claim their power, and build the financial security that we all need and deserve. Now comes the companion guide to help take that attitude and turn it into action.
This one-of-a-kind guide:
The goal for completing this workbook is to help all readers develop a new attitude about money, get more cash flowing into their bank account, and realize more emotional riches, too: hope, peace, power, and joy.