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A Little Book of Leadership Lessons
Leadership isn't about perfection.
It's about authenticity, embracing your faults, overcoming imposter phenomena, building inclusive teams and learning from failure.
Whether you're an aspiring, established, or evolving leader, you'll find raw, honest and relatable insights from Steph's ten leadership lessons.
Listen to A Little Book of Leadership Lessons to learn how
Be an authentic leader Make sense of your vulnerability Accept failure as a stepping stone to success Build confidence in your leadership style Harness the power of diversity and inclusion Steph Edusei is the Chief Executive of St Oswald's Hospice, a large children and adults charitable hospice in the North East of England and the founder of the Black All Year podcast and events to amplify Black voices, highlight challenges, and celebrate achievements.
A multi-award-winner, Steph was named Transformational Leader at the 2022 Northern Power Women Awards, featured on the 2024 BusinessCloud Northern Leaders List, and included in the 2025 Northern Power Women Power List for driving gender equality.
It's about authenticity, embracing your faults, overcoming imposter phenomena, building inclusive teams and learning from failure.
Whether you're an aspiring, established, or evolving leader, you'll find raw, honest and relatable insights from Steph's ten leadership lessons.
Listen to A Little Book of Leadership Lessons to learn how
Be an authentic leader Make sense of your vulnerability Accept failure as a stepping stone to success Build confidence in your leadership style Harness the power of diversity and inclusion Steph Edusei is the Chief Executive of St Oswald's Hospice, a large children and adults charitable hospice in the North East of England and the founder of the Black All Year podcast and events to amplify Black voices, highlight challenges, and celebrate achievements.
A multi-award-winner, Steph was named Transformational Leader at the 2022 Northern Power Women Awards, featured on the 2024 BusinessCloud Northern Leaders List, and included in the 2025 Northern Power Women Power List for driving gender equality.
142 pages, Paperback
Published June 16, 2025
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February 9, 2026
It's not all that often I get to read and review books when I kinda know the author, and whilst I've not "met" Steph in person, I did have a few interesting conversations with her as she was a guest on my company's podcast "Women in..." where we chat to interesting female leaders and when Steph announced on LinkedIn that she was releasing her book, I knew it would be an interesting read!
The clue is in the title "Little" it's easy to pick up, have a read for a few minutes whilst grabbing a coffee, or on a train and written in a way that is accessible and easy to understand. It's not a chunky and intimidating chunky manual written in overly academic language, but neatly and conscisely deals with many of the challenges women (and indeed everyone) faces as they navigate a path to being a leader in any aspect or field of work.
Steph covers in snappy and fun chapters that are peppered with insightful and often fun anecdotes from her life and career topics ranging from Imposter Syndrome, the "busy-ness myth (guilty!), how to take feedback in a positive way, and indeed how to choose the right peole to surround yourself with so the feedback is from people that have something positive to contribute to outlining different traditional leadership styles.
At the end of each chapter there is a helpful list of different podcasts, further reading or people to follow to deepen knowledge in different areas.
A few things that I found useful to consider was the quote from Warren Buffet about the only thing you can never buy more of, regardless of how weathly you were is time, how to tackle some of the imposter syndrome behaviours that hold me back from being more successful, or at least having more time to myself and her last chapter which is the "secret" lesson, but let's just say makes me think about booking in for another vivid hair colour appointment.
In summary an accessible and engaging read to digest some hard hitting and difficult topics and I would say suitable for leaders or potential leaders of any walks or stages of life.
The clue is in the title "Little" it's easy to pick up, have a read for a few minutes whilst grabbing a coffee, or on a train and written in a way that is accessible and easy to understand. It's not a chunky and intimidating chunky manual written in overly academic language, but neatly and conscisely deals with many of the challenges women (and indeed everyone) faces as they navigate a path to being a leader in any aspect or field of work.
Steph covers in snappy and fun chapters that are peppered with insightful and often fun anecdotes from her life and career topics ranging from Imposter Syndrome, the "busy-ness myth (guilty!), how to take feedback in a positive way, and indeed how to choose the right peole to surround yourself with so the feedback is from people that have something positive to contribute to outlining different traditional leadership styles.
At the end of each chapter there is a helpful list of different podcasts, further reading or people to follow to deepen knowledge in different areas.
A few things that I found useful to consider was the quote from Warren Buffet about the only thing you can never buy more of, regardless of how weathly you were is time, how to tackle some of the imposter syndrome behaviours that hold me back from being more successful, or at least having more time to myself and her last chapter which is the "secret" lesson, but let's just say makes me think about booking in for another vivid hair colour appointment.
In summary an accessible and engaging read to digest some hard hitting and difficult topics and I would say suitable for leaders or potential leaders of any walks or stages of life.
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