Books
The Coaching Mindset: 8 Ways to Think Like a Coach by Chad W. Hall
A practical guide offering eight key mindsets to enhance your coaching effectiveness and unlock your client’s potential.
The Human Behind The Coach by Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli
Explores the human aspects of coaching, emphasizing self-awareness, authenticity, and vulnerability.
The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching
by Marion Franklin
Teaches coaches to ask powerful, focused questions that create transformational change in clients.
Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills by Tony Stoltzfus
A comprehensive guide with hundreds of questions to help coaches master the art of inquiry.
Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS by John Blakey and Ian Day
Encourages coaches to challenge clients courageously while maintaining trust and partnership.
Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore
Teaches coaches to ask powerful, focused questions that create transformational change in clients.
The Prosperous Coach by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin
Aimed at professional coaches, offering strategies for building a successful coaching business.
Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth
Provides a collaborative coaching framework that emphasizes balance, fulfillment, and process.
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Practical coaching tips for leaders to integrate coaching techniques into daily conversations.
Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching
A practical coaching guide tailored for educational leaders and school transformation efforts.
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work by David Rock
Uses neuroscience insights to help leaders and coaches enhance performance through better thinking.
The Inner Game of Work by Timothy Gallwey
Applies the principles of focus, awareness, and trust from The Inner Game of Tennis to the workplace.
Coach the Person, Not the Problem by Marcia Reynolds
Encourages coaches to focus on deep emotional and personal connections rather than surface-level issues.
Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten
Highlights the importance of emotional intelligence and compassionate coaching.
Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean by Kim Scott
Applies the principles of focus, awareness, and trust from The Inner Game of Tennis to the workplace.
Leadership Books
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Classic work that explores the mindset and principles necessary
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
Examines the importance of leadership in creating environments where teams thrive, emphasising trust and cooperation.
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
Explores how effective leaders amplify the intelligence and capabilities of their teams, leading to improved performance.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Identifies common pitfalls that teams face and provides strategies to overcome them, enhancing team effectiveness.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Highlights the role of perseverance and passion in achieving long-term goals, offering insights for leaders and individuals alike.
The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success
You can change and become a winner. You can develop the attitude of mind which brings, peace, courage, and success.
Culture Matters: A Framework for Helping Your Team Grow, Thrive, and Be Unstoppable
Culture Matters provides a framework for leaders, new and seasoned, to lead through culture by helping leaders define their organization and goals, assess and develop their team members, and to lead with intention
Remarkable!: Engaging Culture. Superior Service. Outrageous Results
Remarkable! is an entertaining and enlightening business parable that has the power to turn around any team
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
Argues that organizational health is the most significant competitive advantage and provides a framework for achieving it.
The Six Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team by Patrick Lencioni
Introduces a model to help individuals and teams identify their natural talents and areas of frustration to improve productivity and satisfaction.
Management is Dead: The New Leadership Imperative by Matt Tresidder and Chris Heaslip
Challenges traditional management practices and advocates for a leadership approach that empowers and inspires teams.
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin
Offers insights into modern marketing strategies that focus on empathy, relevance, and creating meaningful change.
The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban: How Alabama's Coach Became the Greatest Ever by John Talty
Examines the leadership principles and strategies that have contributed to Nick Saban’s success in college football.
The Way of a Champion: Lessons from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Other Tao Wisdom for Sports & Life by Jerry Lynch and Chungliang Al Huang
Applies ancient Taoist wisdom and principles from The Art of War to modern sports and leadership contexts.
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
A fable that illustrates the process of leading change and overcoming obstacles within an organization.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Analyzes the factors that enable companies to transition from average to exceptional performance.
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Explores the unconventional management and culture principles that have driven Netflix’s success and innovation.
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization by John Wooden and Steve Jamison
Shares the leadership philosophy and principles of legendary basketball coach John Wooden, applicable beyond sports.
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
The must-read New York Times bestseller that’s redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry
