Brand + Business + Women x Christine Moody*

Like many of us, Stahl was getting promotions, winning praise from peers and clients, but still didn’t feel successful. What Stahl found in her role as career coach was that there were so many others like her and struggling in similar circustances. About her clients, she says, “They are working hard and getting everything they thought they wanted, only to find that they still don’t feel ‘successful'”.

They are working hard and getting everything they thought they wanted, only to find that they still don’t feel ‘successful’.

In the course of working with these clients, Stahl identified a few steps to help them find success on their own terms.

Brand + Business + Women x Christine Moody*

In this Fast Company article, Susan Adams explains why more companies don’t have women on their corporate boards. She says: “It’s 2015 and we still don’t have the answer”.

So which “personality” best describes your company’s board? Regardless of where your company lands, immediate steps can and should be taken to make a change.

Smart planning to choose new directors will go a long way to ensuring that over time your board becomes more diverse to better reflect and serve your audiences and better lead your organisation.

Adams says: “The time for change is now. It’s time for leaders to get on board with diversity”.

Brands + Business x Christine Moody*

I read at least one book per week—even more when I was researching for my master’s thesis! I prefer ‘real ones’ so I buy them from my local bricks-and-mortar bookstore Folio Books. I choose each book because I have seen the review in a magazine article, blog, or Facebook page. Seems I am pretty good at choosing books as I hear Folio Books often order additional copies for the bookshelves thanks to my selection.

I love books about successful people and successful business. This week’s ‘Top Ten’ books seem to have a common theme—overcoming diversity on the road to success. It is hard to reduce my list to a ‘top ten’—or ‘top 100!”— so here is part one of some of my favourites. I recommend these books for everyone’s bookshelf:

1. Reinventing You by Dorie Clark
2. Stop Not Till the Goal is Reached by Maha Sinnathamby
3. Peak by Chip Conley
4. Start with Why by Simon Sinek
5. Forty, Fat, and Fired by Nigel Marsh
6. Do Over by Jon Acuff
7. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
   Book by Marie Kondo
8. Leave Your Mark by Aliza Licht
9. Playing Big by Tara Mohr
10. The First Mile by Scott D. Anthony

What are some books that have changed your life?

Next Sunday…part two of ‘top ten books’!

*Christine Moody is one of Australia’s leading brand strategists and the founder brand management consultancy, Brand Audits. With more than 30 years’ professional experience, Christine has helped a diverse client base of local and international brands, including Gold Coast City Council, Hilton Hotels, and Wrigleys USA, to develop, protect and achieve brand differentiation.

For more information: chris.moody@brandaudits.com.au or +61 419 888 468.

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*Christine Moody is one of Australia’s leading brand strategists and the founder brand management consultancy, Brand Audits. With more than 30 years’ professional experience, Christine has helped a diverse client base of local and international brands, including Gold Coast City Council, Hilton Hotels, and Wrigleys USA, to develop, protect and achieve brand differentiation.

For more information: chris.moody@brandaudits.com.au or +61 419 888 468.