The Learning List

This list is designed to inspire further curiosity and learning in line with your development needs. Dip in, follow what sparks you, and let your leadership grow from there.

A note from me, Anna….

This Learning List is a living, evolving resource that I’ve been collecting over time—through books I’ve read, podcasts I’ve loved, brilliant recommendations from peers, clients, and colleagues, and real conversations with people navigating complex leadership challenges.

It’s not a checklist to complete, but a set of doorways. Whether you’re trying to find your voice, influence others, lead through uncertainty, or just feel a little less alone in it all there’s something in here for you.

 I’ll keep adding to this as new ideas and tools prove useful so if you’ve got a recommendation, send it my way, I’d love to hear what’s helped you.

And remember if you’re stuck you can always ask Aunty Treacle!
We take real listener challenges and crowdsource reflections and practical advice from a wide range of voices.

Got a challenge of your own? Send it to us at ask@auntytreacle.com

Enjoy!

Focus: Relationship with Self

Explore how you relate to yourself, your beliefs, and your internal dialogue.

• Best Friend Therapy – Emma Reed Turrell & Elizabeth Day 🎧
  Especially episodes on Imposter Syndrome, Transactional Analysis, and Feelings

• The Source – Dr. Tara Swart 📘

• Navigating Polarities – Brian Emerson 📘

• Please Yourself – Emma Reed Turrell 📘

• Why Has No One Ever Told Me This Before? – Dr. Julie Smith 📘

• Let Them – Mel Robbins 🎧 🎥 📘

• Any books by Brené Brown (start with Daring Greatly) 📘

• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl 📘

• Unconscious Commitments – Conscious Leadership Group 🎥

Focus: Confidence & Personal Presence

Build belief, authority and authenticity in how you show up.

• Likeable Badass – Alison Fragale 🎧 📘

• Presence – Amy Cuddy 📘

• Best Friend Therapy – Confidence & Boundaries episodes 🎧

• Fear is Just a Four-Letter Word – Tracy Tutor 📘

• Atomic Habits – James Clear 📘

• Above and Below the Line – Conscious Leadership Group 🎥

Focus: Leading Others

Learn to influence, connect, and stretch those you lead.

• Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott 📘

• Radical Candour – Kim Malone Scott 📘

• The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek 📘

• The Alliance – Reid Hoffman 📘

• Disrupted! – Larry Robertson 📘

• Start With Why – Simon Sinek 📘

• The Drama Triangle – Conscious Leadership Group 🎥

• The Fearless Organization – Amy Edmondson 📘

Focus: Leadership & Influence

Navigate difference, complexity and cross-cultural connection.

• The Culture Map – Erin Meyer 📘

• Leading Across Cultures – Chris Meyer 📘

• Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez 📘

• Content vs. Context – Conscious Leadership Group 🎥

Focus: Creating Change

Understand systems, adapt behaviour, and grow influence.

• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership – Dethmer, Chapman, Klemp 📘

• Immunity to Change – Kegan & Lahey 📘

• Lead From The Heart – Mark C. Crowley 🎧

• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl 📘

• Responsibility: A Choice or a Burden – Conscious Leadership Group 🎥

• Be More Pirate – Sam Coniff Allende 📘

Focus: Time, Attention & Priorities

Take back control of your energy, time, and decision-making.

• Atomic Habits – James Clear 📘

• 4000 Weeks – Oliver Burkeman 📘

• Indistractable – Nir Eyal 📘

• Essentialism – Greg McKeown 📘

• The Knowledge Project – Shane Parrish 🎧

• The Career Equation – Erica Sosna 🎥

• The Trust Equation – David Maister 🎥

Focus: Safety & Learning

• The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership – Rosa Carrillo 📘

• Human Organisational Potential – Ivan Pupulidy & Crista Vesel 📘

• Next Generation Safety Leadership – Clive Lloyd 📘

• Friendly Fire – Scott Snook 📘

• Learning from Failure – Amy Edmondson 📘

• Black Box Thinking – Matthew Syed