Career Resilience

In Post-Traumatic Thriving: The Art, Science & Stories of Resilience, world-renowned expert on disasters and trauma Dr. Randall Bell interweaves science and academic research with stories of people who have not just survived, but have used their trauma as their fuel to thrive.

From the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to the boardrooms of Nike, Walmart, and Microsoft, Blayne Smith and Brandon Young have consistently built tightly-knit, high-performing teams that persevere and win. Join the Army Rangers on the peaks of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan and the Green Berets at Firebase Anaconda to gain key insights for leading teams through uncertainty and the understanding that perseverance is what’s most required for today’s complex world.

This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is an audiobook written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind-the-scenes struggles. The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments.

Renowned management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an exciting and illuminating discussion of how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses. As rapid and foundational change becomes ever more constant, a state of constant disruption increasingly becomes our new normal. Certain Uncertainty collects advice and fresh thinking from accomplished business leaders to help managers and executives navigate contemporary markets.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

Do you want to lead and influence others more effectively? Whether you’re a new or aspiring leader—looking for your first step in building a professional career, or a manager working to recover from corporate setbacks, sluggish direct reports, bad bosses, and economic downturns—you’ll find hope, encouragement, and support to further your leadership career in this allegorical tale. The authors, both business experts, coaches and trainers, tell the story of Sam, who encounters unexpected challenges in her first job as a manager.

Turn debilitating stress into remarkable strength through proven resilience routines taught by a critical incident instructor and first responder leader. Transform your personal and professional life with insights gained from some of the most stressful professions you can imagine.

Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations. In Catapult, he gives you an insider’s look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed in the business world.

Through The Crooked Rim, Pam Borton inspires hope, confidence, and a powerful belief that resilience and mental toughness are attainable. For more than 30 years, she has coached these principles and guided elite NCAA players and now corporate athletes to their own Final Fours…and she shows listeners that they can do it, too. This is a personal playbook to master one’s own mindset for success.

Based on author Scott Glassman's A Happier You® wellness program, this uplifting guide offers seven skills in seven weeks to supercharge your positivity and short-circuit the cycle of negative thinking.

In a world filled with stress, anxiety, depression, uncertainty, and conflict, we all want to find a better tomorrow—a way to become our best self so we can meet the world with resilience and positive wellness. Dr. Karren and Dr. Richardson have captured and eloquently communicate the process of living a healthy, balanced life with strong resilience and hope. A Better Tomorrow leads the listener through easily understood wisdom and practical activities in self-discovery, balancing stress management, and resilience building, and more.

A collection of insights, Life Hacks is meant to bring you to a new awareness of how we are constantly experiencing life from the inside out. You are invited to join the author on a journey towards discovering how our "negative" attributes have not only been helpful to us, but essential to our survival; How our thoughts and ideas about life sometimes get us "stuck" (and how to get unstuck), and how we always will and have always had access to an internal GPS system.

Many of us remember where we were in the moments of 9/11, however few of us can say we personally know someone who was impacted by this tragedy. Payton Lynch, the author of Rise from the Ashes: Stories of Trauma, Resilience, and Growth from the Children of 9/11, shares the story of her husband Jon Lynch and other 9/11 surviving children. Their stories are a few of the 3,000 stories (not including the 2,000 adult-age people who lost a parent that day and the countless others who have gone on to lose a parent due to 9/11 illnesses) that need to be told.

Trust Yourself First: Cultivating Self-Awareness, Confidence and Resilience, seasoned executive coach Doris Sew Hoy shares her expertise, research, and original tools of the trade curated to help you unlock your personal and professional potential. This guidebook poses thought-provoking and incisive questions to ask yourself, interspersed with Doris’ own candid musings.

In times of despair, visualizing better days ahead can prove to be challenging. Grief has a way of making even the hardiest people believe that they're all alone and helpless in this vast, cruel world. More often than not, people allow their feelings of helplessness get the better of them, making them more susceptible to depression, anxiety, and inner turmoil.

Rising to the challenges of corporate culture and leadership can feel like an impossible challenge, especially when you're striving to align your team with the company’s core values. Guess what? Creating a thriving, motivated, and resilient organization that aligns fully with your corporate vision is entirely achievable. This book is your roadmap for realizing that vision. Drawing from years of hands-on experience, the author shares insights and strategies as someone who has been in your position and understands exactly what it takes to transform your organization.

Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.

Roma brings authenticity and refreshing keys that guide you out of despair, pain, and grief to a place where you can smile again. A life filled with one trauma after another: her daughter brutally murdered, and her husband and grand-daughter killed in a light plane crash. Roma has stepped out of the prison of grief and become a prisoner of hope and wholeness.

From the battlefield to the boardroom, from parenting to public leadership—when pressure hits, most people break. But not you. Not anymore. Inner Armor: Perpetual Resilience is not a self-help book. It’s a tactical, no-nonsense training manual for mental toughness, forged by someone who’s lived it in real combat, high-stakes diplomacy, and elite executive environments.

What is it that causes you pain? Do you feel like you deserve a better life? Do you want to rekindle your sparkle and thrive again? In 11 simple but profound—plus three bonus—steps, Peggy Bareh has transformed many lives from barely surviving to thriving.