Read to Lead Podcast

Do you wake up every day feeling like you're going through the motions, that the hundreds of choices you make have almost no impact on the people around you? Simone Knego says you really only need to change the way you see yourself and the world around you will change.

In Dancing with Wisdom, Dr. Sunil Raheja shows you how to stop going through the motions and become the fully alive human being you were always intended to be.

In this conversation with Self-Publishing School's Chandler Bolt, he walks us through a proven path to taking your book to bestseller status.

VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.

Could you be the bottleneck that is preventing your business from the growth you'd hoped for? Today's guest has just the help you need to get over the hump to the next level.

If the American dream of formal education, work, buying a house, working some more, and trying to raise a family, isn't leading you where you want to go, then this is for you!

Dan's new book outlines a fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers, and anyone who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.

Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to create more supportive relationships with yourself, with your thoughts and emotions, and with other people, so you can become the awesome human you're meant to be.

In Crucible Leadership, Warwick Fairfax explains what he learned about himself from a devastating failure – who he was and who he was not, what his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.

The Director of West Point's influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.

If you or someone you know suffers from bouts of anxiety, or from workaholism, or both, this conversation is one you do not want to miss.

With years of experience helping organizations reimagine their identities, communication, and effectiveness to create a more productive workplace, Elizabeth Knox details her experience and data-driven strategies to help readers evaluate and discover a pace that allows both their organization and employees to succeed.

The Fearless Facilitator consolidates twenty years of experience and hard-learned lessons into a summary of powerful techniques you can deploy now.

CEO and respected advisor Robert L. Dilenschneider examines the trajectories of iconic figures to reveal the choices that enabled them to fulfill their potential.

Gail Rudolph helps readers discover how to harness their innate interpersonal power, revealing the cues and signals that help us respond effectively.

This book taps into the same tips and techniques honed by top-tier athletes, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble, to become a champion at work and the ultimate team player at home.

Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact.

Want to take your networking to another level? Apply the rules of personal dating to cultivate valuable business relationships like never before!

Use this book as a roadmap for strengthening the people in your organization and building a positive coaching culture.

Learn to let go of the paralyzing need to be perfect. Find out how to navigate your fears of failure. And stop holding onto the industrial mindset that logging hours boosts productivity.

In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the 'no boring books' way.

Siegel shows how to create lasting profits and growth in the smartest way possible: by creating a solid partnership between digital innovation and traditional business operations―in other words, by marrying brains and brawn.

Grinding it out is grinding us up. Work should support life, not the other way around. The irony is the less we work, the more effective we become. In The 4 Week Vacation, you will discover strategies to build a thriving life and business. Get ready to take your life back!

In You Can Change Other People, the world's number-one executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, PhD, share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change - even if they've been stuck for years.

How engaged are your people? What does their performance productivity look like? Sadly, 67% of those surveyed said they were "not engaged" and 18% said they were "actively disengaged!"

Decide what matters. Stop doing what doesn't matter. Create a schedule that reflects what matters. Protect what matters. Be present for what matters.

In The Magnetic Leader, discover 18 Essential Actions you can practice daily to upgrade your influence and impact. People will follow your lead, becomes more confident, draw out the best in each other, enjoy healthy relationships, and make a difference!

Dorie Clark shares unique principles and frameworks anyone can apply to their situation, as well as stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences.

Survive and Thrive paves the path for any entrepreneur to start from scratch and build a profitable business in any economy, including this one.

The Earning Advantage is a unique resource for employees to earn more money while promoting their company's growth.

In Listen Like You Mean It, Ximena offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts.

If you already know that reading is critical for success, Read to Lead (the book) will help you get more out of the books you read. If you aren't a reader (yet) it will help explain why you should be, and give you tips on how to jump into it painlessly.

Although we don't have to worry about evil robots rising to power and turning us into pets, artificial intelligence is here to stay, and we must learn to separate fact from fiction and embrace how this amazing technology enhances our world.

Stephen M. R. Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and all stakeholders—is the single most critical component of a successful leader and organization.

Ted Fleming, head of talent development for CVS, shares simple, powerful advice for finding the right job or growing in an existing role.

Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from his classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrong-doing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.

In Pathway to Purpose, service excellence expert Jamey Lutz unveils time-tested strategies that have helped transform once good companies into truly exceptional ones.

Close your eyes. Do you see, feel, and sense a vision of yourself that does not align with your current life? If so, that means it's time to grow; it's time to change.

It's no secret that more people than ever before are building thriving businesses around their personal brands. But why do some create six- or even seven-figure businesses while so many others strive to make a consistent income? Find out in this conversation with my good friend Mike Kim.

Many industries worldwide are stuck as they struggle to survive and grow. Stuck businesses do not react, pivot, and redirect, which can be catastrophic. In Unstuck, Craig Lemasters shares techniques he has used in a lifetime of helping Fortune 500 companies fill their knowledge gaps.

You will learn strategies to increase alignment, overcome attrition, and get absolutely clear on executing your top priorities.

Talent Transformation will help you engage your workforce, set meaningful goals, and make decisions based on data and logic instead of guesswork. It will help you lead with confidence, embrace uncertainty with an unrivaled degree of flexibility and agility, and achieve long-term success.

This book tackles the most important issues presented by long-distance teamwork. Learn the mindset, skillset, and habits you need to be a successful, engaged, and valued long-distance contributor.

This book features fifty original, powerful stories that will shape the lives of its readers, helping them to become better leaders and people.

There's no need to remain stuck thinking unhelpful thoughts. Learn how you can fill your mind with encouraging, life-enriching truths through a gospel-saturated, 31-day challenge that can help you replace a destructive mindset with a positive, empowering, and godly one.

Professional success is your control, much more than you realize. Ordinary people will accomplish extraordinary feats when their energy is properly channeled.

Through the ALIEN method, you will learn how to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking, the book, can help anyone find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.

This book is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security, hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential, and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family.

In Daring to Fight, Victoria Mininger candidly shares her painful battle with clinical depression and lays out practical steps she used to fight it every day.

In Worth Doing Wrong, Malham provides strategies for creating a culture that will help you smash business goals, achieve win-win relationships with your clients, generate buzz in your community, and cultivate a workplace that you and your employees will love.