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Nicholas Janni’s first ground-breaking book Leader as Healer won the overall Business Book Award in 2023. In this transformational audiobook, Janni presented a new and necessary paradigm of leadership. He argued that leaders of today must also be empathic and therefore embodied; grounded and therefore intuitive; present and therefore awake, to face the scope and threats of 21st-century challenges.

"Yes, you can turn what you love into a six-figure career. You didn’t become a service provider to be overworked and underpaid, yet here you are: grinding long hours, watching others succeed, and wondering why this isn’t working. Sometimes you think maybe they were right and this career isn’t the real deal. Or maybe you’ve just never been shown how to make a job in the beauty industry work like a business. When you learn what top service professionals already know, everything changes, from your bank account to the respect you command.

In Lead with Trust, leadership expert and HR executive Bart Spence challenges conventional leadership thinking and makes a compelling case for trust as the ultimate driver of people, performance, and sustainable success. Drawing on more than two decades of real-world experience—from corporate boardrooms to ballfields—Spence shows that the quality of our relationships ultimately determines the quality of our leadership and results.

This story dives into the mind of a successful manager in the workplace. The narrator, Mark, provides examples of how he succeeded with a great first impression and how he failed with a bad first impression. This short story is a fiction and does not constitute legal advice. This is not financial advice.