Books published by Practical Inspiration Publishing

This is a book for CEOs and Managing Directors who have a successful brand and want an evidence-based strategy that will accelerate growth.

How to plan, write, and promote the book that puts you in the spotlight. Learn how to create a strategic plan and outline for your book, so it both supports your business and helps the people you want to reach.

As a leader, do you feel you face a straight choice between high performance versus wellbeing?Strategic resilience allows you to achieve both, without compromise.At The Resilience Engine, we believe that everyone deserves to perform well without compromising their wellbeing. We know our approach works because it's backed up by ten years of research and experience with thousands of clients in over 75 organisations. The Resilience Dynamic illustrates, with practical tools, how to develop resilience as a buffer to stress and how it can transform how you lead change and increase performance in a complex and uncertain world.

Soothe your child's anxiety and help them to develop emotional resilience for the future. The number of children suffering from anxiety is on the rise and most parents will readily admit that they feel ill prepared and lost for words when it comes to supporting their child's emotional wellbeing. Author Alicia Eaton is a Harley Street practitioner with over 15 years' experience of helping children to feel more confident and overcome feelings of anxiety. As she explains, nearly all children will sustain bumps and bruises on the outside of their body so it's only natural that they'll also pick up a few on the inside, in the form of anxiety and worries. Learning how to tackle these quickly, stops them from turning into much bigger problems later. Whether your child has a fear of dogs, spiders, dentists or injections, struggles with school, performing on stage or sleeping at night, this book will teach you the simple solutions every parent needs to know. When your child feels happy, you'll feel happier too.

Are you running your business or is it running you?Running a small business can take over your life but it doesn't have to be that way. Choosing and using the right technology and systems can transform the way your business works and this book shows you how!No matter how technophobic you are, Sorted! will quickly helpyou find the small changes that will make a big difference to your business. If you're more tech savvy, you'll love the ninja tips to take your business to the next level. Feel more confident in your choice of technology and systems for the future, because whatever your plans are, you need the right systems in place to help you achieve them.

A practical and inspiring guide to executingeffective trade shows that attract and convert high quality leads intoprofitable sales. Organisations regularly waste vast amounts of money, time andeffort attending the wrong shows, planning them poorly and failing to followup, leading to an almost zero return on investment. The Exhibitionist gives exhibitors anend-to-end guide covering all aspects of best-practice trade show executionincluding budgeting, researching the right show, selecting and training staffand post show contact strategy amongst many other elements, to build theconfidence and skills required for delivering more effective events. Through a series of threemodules - planning, implementation and evaluation - The Exhibitionist guidesreaders through the linear process of delivering a commercially measurabletrade show. This is a practical journey which alongside the theory uses casestudies and examples to bring the key points to life. Rather than just giving readers the answer,The Exhibitionist provides the stimulus and inspiration to arrive at the rightdecisions for each organisation's specific trade show needs. The Exhibitionist directsyou through the minimum requirements to deliver an effective trade show butalso discuss more advanced elements such as media management, speaker platformsand digital engagement that will enhance the basic delivery for moreexperienced exhibitors

Women make up the majority of university graduates. They enter the workplace in equal numbers with men. But many workplaces still operate with cultures developed over a century ago to reflect a predominantly male workforce and vastly differing social expectations. So all too often as women become parents they are forced to fix things in the only way they can - by downgrading their job expectations or dropping out of the corporate world.Anna Meller believes it's high time we #Upcycled our jobs and careers to fit today's lifestyles and meet women's changed expectations. Her PROPEL model offers ambitious working mothers new possibilities for progressing their corporate careers. In this book, Anna leads you through an evidence-based six step process that supports you in finding the balance you need. Practical exercises enable you to craft a working arrangement that meets your employer's expectations as well as your own aspirations, and to develop the key skills you need to maintain it.

A fascinating personal account of the early days of IVF, from the world's first IVF clinic through nearly four decades of academic and private practice. As well as his pioneering medical-scientific work to provide new treatments for patients, Simon Fishel's career has involved battles in both the social and professional arenas.

A comprehensive guide to the female menopause, written for men to help them understand this often perplexing topic. It addresses all the important aspects of the menopause, including the physical, psychological, genito-urinary and long term symptoms that can occur. It gives essential information on options available to cope with those symptoms plus good advice for men (and women!) on practical lifestyle choices. Short and easy to dip in and out of, with humorous illustrations and practical tips for what you can do (and what NOT to say), this is your essential handbook for surviving the change in YOUR life.

For such a beautiful industry, there is a lot of ugly behind the scenes in modelling. Exploitation has always existed in the fashion industry, because it is so aspirational. By cutting through the smoke and mirrors, The Model Manifesto empowers and educates models to take control of their lives into their own hands and educates the public on the reality of what's involved in modelling. Leanne Maskell has drawn on her 13 years of experience working as an international model together with her legal background to create this easy-to-understand, A-Z guide in order to end exploitation of vulnerable models and wanna-be models. With contributions from top industry experts, The Model Manifesto includes solid advice on everything from mental health issues to paying tax. It covers every aspect of the modelling industry in detail to give an honest and realistic insider view, covering both the highs and the lows.The way to end the exploitation and the ugly in the industry is by education, awareness and building change from the inside out.

Find the right path the first time! Use this transformation handbook to navigate your way through the first year of defining, establishing and expanding a world-class Customer Success function for your company.

Instructions Not Supplied is the account of one family's experience in adopting three children, each of whom turned out to have special needs, and the challenges they have faced along the way. Some of the difficult situations they have faced are simply part of a family life; others are as a direct result of the children's disabilities and difficulties, including autism, attention deficit hyper-activity disorder, foetal alcohol syndrome, attachment disorder and sensory issues. A story of adoption, autism and coming together as a family, this book describes with honesty and humour how the behaviour of the children has often challenged the adults around them. It also explores the process of diagnosis and the difficulty of getting the right support both for the children and their parents, with insights for all parents and teachers of children with complex needs.The book is a unique insight into the twin challenges of adoption and disability, an invaluable read for prospective adopters and adoptive parents as well as natural parents of children with additional support needs. It is equally valuable for practitioners, as it gives an insight into the family life of those parenting such children and how best to support them.

Brand Therapy is a "how to" book for brand teams in the pharma and medtech sectors. It describes when and how to use a selection of strategic planning tools.

It's hard to be left taking care of your family all by yourself. Parenting alone in the wake of domestic violence, intense conflict or traumatic, unexpected events, makes being 'the parent who stayed' even more difficult.Are you standing in the ruins of your family wondering what the hell you have to do to get back to being ok again? Has the amount of conflict, aggression and shame that came with separation/divorce floored your and your kids? You deserve to be happy, no matter how awful this has been.Parenting alone after traumatic family breakdown is relentless, lonely, scary and hard. The nights you sit on the stairs crying after the kids finally fall asleep. The days you can barely get out of bed but push on through because no-one else is going to pick up the pieces. The times you watch your children crumple into anger, despair and frustration and you simply don't know what to do. If you feel that you're stuck in the trenches, this book is for you. It's for you, if even lifting your eyes to the path ahead feels like putting yourself in the firing line. It is for you if you're just about getting through the day you're in. It's for you if you know that life cannot change when you have no perspective, no vision, and no plan.You can figure out how to pick up all the broken pieces of your life and put them back together again.Nina Farr, TED Speaker, Author and Leadership Coach (plus ex-lone parent to two under two), can show you how, because she's been there.

Menopause can be a complex time of life but it doesn't have to be complicated to get control of your symptoms Too many women think it's either HRT or suffer but that's not the case. There's a third option, which is to get control of your symptoms naturally.The Hot Flush Freedom Challenge is for busy, professional women who want straightforward practical advice they can implement with minimum fuss and time. Written using everyday language, the book offers a step-by-step solution to getting control of your hot flushes, night sweats, energy bombs, mood swings, brain fog and sleep in just 10 days.