leadership toolkit
A curated collection of recommended books, articles, podcasts and videos. I’ve learned something from every resource I’ve shared which has evolved or changed my thinking or how I live my life. I hope you reap the same benefits.
Articles
Become A More Inclusive Leader By Using These Three Key Statement Types
Ashley Schwedt
Life Labs Learning
Empathy Is The Most Important Leadership Skill According To Research
Tracy Bower
Forbes
Why Compassion is a Better Managerial Tactic Than Toughness
Emma Seppala
Harvard Business Review
How Cultivating a Culture of Gratitude Can Improve Your Workplace For All
Kelly Siegel
Forbes
A Two-Step Approach for Managing Impostor Syndrome
Sarah Nguyen
Talentary
Sleep Well, Lead Better
Christopher Barnes
Harvard Business Review
Time Management: The Maker's Schedule and the Manager's Schedule
Paul Graham
What To Do When You Have No Time To Think
Peter Bregman
Harvard Business Review
Reclaim Your Time: 20 Great Ways To Find More Free Time
Peter Bregman
Harvard Business Review
The Focused Leader
Daniel Goleman
Harvard Business Review
What Google Learned From Its Quest To Create The Perfect Team
Charles Duhigg
NY Times
Programming Your Culture
Ben Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Books
Your Energy, Your Time: A Guide To Using Yours Mindfully
Sarah Nguyen
Talentary
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead
Brene Brown
Dare to Lead
Brene Brown
Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Radical Candor
Kim Scott
PodcastS
Dealing With Conflict Avoiders and Seekers
Harvard Business Review
videos
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek, TED
Daniel Goleman Introduces Emotional Intelligence
Big Think
Brene Brown on Empathy
The RSA
The Radical Candor Model For Giving Feedback and Tips On Giving Feedback
Radical Candour
resources
Empathy Canvas: A human-centred design tool to develop a deep, shared understanding of others. Use it to create an empathy canvas to better understand your team/organisational dynamics, improve your user or client experience and design more collaborative, inclusive environments and teams.
How To Operationalise Your Company's Values
Brene Brown
Job Ad Gender De-Coder: Before sharing a job ad, run it through this tool to identify gender-coded language.
