Transform your connections and leadership with five research-backed humor tactics to master authentic workplace comedy, boost team engagement, and lead with laughter.

Discover the secret weapon that transforms relationships, boosts creativity, and enhances leadership: humor. The Laughter Factor reveals how laughter isn't just a source of joy—it's a powerful tool for connection and success. Whether you're a leader, teacher, salesperson, or simply someone seeking stronger relationships, this book equips you with five humor tactics to captivate, connect, and inspire.

With decades of experience as a comedian and keynote speaker, author Adam Christing shares his proven methods to make humor work for anyone, anywhere. These five fundamental humor strategies include:

• Surprise—Use the power of the unexpected to delight and captivate.
• Poke—Master the art of self-deprecating humor and gentle teasing.
• In-Jokes—Foster bonds through shared laughter and unique moments.
• Wordplay—Enhance your wit with clever banter and sharp language.
• Amplify—Turn ordinary stories into extraordinary, memorable moments.

Humor is your ticket to breaking barriers, fostering trust, and standing out in personal and professional settings. From boosting your leadership presence to lightening tense situations, The Laughter Factor is your ultimate guide to wielding humor as a force for good.

This bestselling conflict resolution book has helped thousands of people effectively collaborate across deep divides. Now it's been updated with 50 percent new material for an increasingly polarized world.

“Offers practical guidance for how to work with diverse others, which is a precondition for confronting many of the complex challenges we face.” -Morris Rosenberg, President, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

In today's fractured world, collaboration is increasingly difficult yet more crucial than ever. Often, to get something done that really matters, we need to work with people we don't agree with, like, or trust. Drawing from thirty-plus years of experience working with leaders in over fifty countries, Adam Kahane shows why conventional collaboration-requiring harmony and agreement-is obsolete. Instead, he provides a groundbreaking approach that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation.

Kahane introduces three key stretches to navigate difficult collaborations:

- Stretch to embrace conflict and connection
- Stretch to experiment and learn
- Stretch to step into the game

This substantially revised second edition adds multiple new chapters exploring how to work across deepening divides and with those we may never agree with. Using new case studies, a discussion guide, and frameworks for navigating permanent plurality in our polarized times, Kahane offers essential tools for transforming conflict into positive change.

For coaches who want to transform lives, this updated bestselling guide reveals how reflective inquiry—not just asking questions—creates breakthrough moments that AI can never replicate.

In this powerful second edition, ICF global past president Marcia Reynolds shows why reflecting clients’ thoughts creates deeper transformation than questioning alone. With AI coaching tools emerging, Reynolds demonstrates how human connection remains irreplaceable for genuine breakthroughs.

“Coaches rely far too much on asking open-ended questions,” says Reynolds. When clients hear their thoughts spoken by someone else, they critically examine their thinking. Drawing from brain science and decades of coaching experience, Reynolds provides specific techniques for transformational conversations.

This expanded edition is 20 percent new content including the following:

• Fresh research on identity formation
• New coaching examples
• Guidance on differentiating human coaching from AI

Reynolds reorganizes her acclaimed “three mental habits” and “five essential practices,” showing how to create a space where clients feel safe to explore and achieve lasting change. And a new case study demonstrates coaching’s power for both personal development and organizational culture shift.

Create workplaces where neurodivergent talent—your organizational canaries—can thrive, benefiting everyone, with this award-winning guide.

Despite valuable skills and strong work ethics, neurodivergent individuals (such as members of ADHD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, and learning differences communities as well as others who bring different ways of thinking and experiencing life) face significant employment barriers. It means that their unique talents and perspectives are often excluded, and their canary warnings about problems like bullying, ineffective work organization, or ethical slippery slopes that harm all are ignored.

This practical guide helps CEOs, managers, HR leaders, and changemakers build truly inclusive workplaces by addressing systemic problems and improving work for everyone. Drawing on over twenty-five years of global experience and research on uniquely inclusive organizations, the book offers the following tools:

• An intersectional approach to neuroinclusion
• Holistic understanding of human differences (social, cognitive, emotional, physical)
• Comprehensive talent practices from job descriptions to leadership development
• Global perspectives celebrating diverse neurodivergent voices
• Actionable strategies for change at any organizational level

With a blend of lived experience, academic rigor, and accessible writing, this groundbreaking work clearly distinguishes between academic, applied, and personal content, allowing readers to navigate the material according to their needs and interests.