Books by MaryJo Burchard, PhD

Practical, research-grounded books for leaders preparing themselves and their teams to face hard change.

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Getting Ready

10 Readiness-building exercises when big change knocks you off your feet

By MaryJo A. Burchard, PhD

☆☆☆☆☆ New release

When sudden, unexpected change disrupts your plot, you need simple help to get clarity for the moment so you can respond well. This highly interactive, visually engaging little book gives you 10 keys for personal readiness right now — each with a quick, hands-on exercise to help you reset and calm your heart and mind in a way that’s meaningful for you.

Scan the 10 keys, skip to the one that resonates with your current need, and do the related exercise for a quick readiness reframe on your own terms. Integrates graphics, photos, and thought-provoking quotes to create a customized readiness experience every time you open it.

Paperback $11.99
Kindle $9.99 (or free with Kindle Unlimited)

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Available in paperback & Kindle.

Ready Now

10 Keys to facing and leading chaotic change with your soul intact

By MaryJo A. Burchard, PhD

★★★★★ 5.0 / 5 on Amazon

Leaders face chaotic interruption more than ever. Planning is still important, but many of the biggest changes leaders now face are like hurricanes — unexpected, unpredictable, often unwanted. And not optional. Leaders need a new language and new expectations to effectively and humanely equip their teams to adapt.

Ready Now provides quick, hands-on help to take action and facilitate readiness for intense, rapid, unexpected, or unpredictable change. Inside are 10 simple readiness-building conversations and exercises that give you clarity right now about why people are responding the way they are — and how to build readiness without spooking or marginalizing them when you need their engagement most.

The exercises don’t depend on progressive “phases of a change,” because chaotic change can move in any direction and at varying speeds without warning. Use them in sequence, or pull the one you need for the moment you’re in.

Paperback $14.99
Kindle $9.99 (or free with Kindle Unlimited)

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Available in paperback & Kindle.

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