Books & Audios

Here you will find a selection of useful and informative Books and Audios

  • Invisible Women – Exposing data bias in a world designed for men – Caroline Criado Perez

    Gender biased facts & stats so compelling it will make your blood boil

    A shocking realisation through everyday facts and figures that the world we have built around us is rooted in male bias, from office temperatures designed for cooler male preferences to more UK statues named John than non-royal women to emojis designed with male defaults and male characters spending twice as much time on the screen as female characters (3 times as much if it’s a male lead role). Generic masculinity and male defaults are everywhere. Unthinking and blood curdling.

  • The Fearless Organization – Creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation and growth – Amy C. Edmondson

    Confidence and humility are not opposites

    No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear,” wrote Edmond Burke in 1756. Unleashing the idea of ‘intelligent failure’ in organisations with strong psychological safety. Successful failure as an art – failing to fail is the real failure. Understanding interpersonal fear and that psychological safety lives at the group level. Becoming the master of ‘I don’t know’.

  • Strong Female Character – Fern Brady

    The challenges of growing up with Autism brought to life with incredible comic humour.

  • Brit(ish) on Race, Identity & Belonging – Afua Hirsch

    Powerful & thought-provoking

  • What Works – Gender Equality By Design – Iris Bohnet

    Replacing intuition, informal networks and traditional rules of thumb with quantifiable data and rigorous analysis is a first step towards overcoming gender bias. Stereotypes can be activated by the subtlest of cues – does your office reception have images hanging on the walls of the previous male leaders? Women are facing a trade off between competence and likeability. Women who violate social norms pay a price.

  • Think Again – Adam Grant

    The purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs but to evolve our beliefs

    We should all start with intellectual humility. We should be able to write a long list of what we don’t know. If knowledge is power then knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.