Corrie Napier

 

Authors

Corrie Napier is a conflict resolution consultant, mediator, and speaker who helps leaders turn destructive conflict into constructive conversations using her B.U.I.L.D. framework.

She’s worked across cultures in China, Argentina, and Israel, and now trains organizations, teaches at Pepperdine Caruso Law, and leads Pax Napier, a consultancy focused on communication, leadership, and team alignment.

Her work sits at the intersection of:
• conflict resolution
• leadership development
• and faith-driven transformation

Her book, Fierce Hope, extends that work beyond the room, into the lives of people navigating pain, loss, and difficult seasons.

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“People find this book right when they need it, and it actually changes them.”

— Corrie Napier

What Changed?

Corrie was already doing meaningful work, consulting, teaching, and helping leaders navigate conflict.
But her impact was limited to the rooms she was in, and her most personal story wasn’t reaching beyond her direct audience, and she felt a calling to speak more about faith and spirituality in her work.

She turned that story into Fierce Hope, a book designed to help people find faith and resilience in the middle of pain.

The book became the multiplier.
Readers now find it, share it, and show up already connected to her message.

It’s led to:
• a 250+ person launch movement
• 100+ early reviews
• speaking, workshops, and growing demand around her work

Her impact is no longer tied to her time.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Support a consulting or speaking business

Constraints

  • First-time author
  • Needed structure and accountability
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Consultant / advisor
  • Memoir & Fiction Project
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Catherine Connelly

 

Authors

Catherine Connelly is a veteran tech entrepreneur who spent two decades building and scaling companies in the online dating and social discovery space. In 2020, she sold her company, The Meet Group, in a $500M acquisition.

After the exit, Catherine faced a familiar but rarely discussed challenge among high-performing founders: how to translate experience into a meaningful next chapter.

Her book, Designing Success, is not a retrospective. It’s a blueprint, distilling hard-earned lessons from building, leading, exiting, and starting again.

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“I didn’t write this book to celebrate the past. I wrote it to design what came next.”

— Catherine Connelly

What Changed?

For Catherine, writing the book marked a shift from operator to architect.

The process helped her:
• Clarify what actually mattered from 20 years of building
• Separate identity from title and valuation
• Turn experience into a platform for speaking, coaching, and leadership

The book became the bridge, not the destination.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Support a consulting or speaking business

Constraints

  • First-time author
  • Needed structure and accountability
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Founder / entrepreneur
  • Consultant / advisor
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Joe Heitzeberg

 

Authors

Joe Heitzeberg is the co-founder of Crowd Cow, a direct-to-consumer marketplace connecting customers with independent farmers producing high-quality, ethically sourced beef.

Before scaling the company, Joe wrote Craft Beef to articulate a belief system about food, transparency, and supply chains — not to promote a startup, but to define a category.

The book served as a public declaration of values at a moment when the business itself was still emerging.

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“We weren’t trying to sell a book. We were trying to explain why this industry needed to change.”

— Joe Heitzeberg

What Changed?

Writing Craft Beef clarified Crowd Cow’s narrative at a foundational level:
• What they believed
• What they stood against
• Why they existed beyond product features

One year after publication, Crowd Cow raised $28M in funding.

Not because the book “caused” the raise — but because it signaled depth, conviction, and long-term thinking to the ecosystem around the company.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Publish a legacy or mission-driven book,
  • Use a book as a business asset

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Executive / C-suite
  • Founder / entrepreneur

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Crowd Cow: https://www.crowdcow.com

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Fmr. Governor Ricardo Rosselló

Authors

Ricardo Rosselló is a former Governor of Puerto Rico who led during one of the most complex crisis periods in the island’s modern history. His tenure intersected with Hurricane Maria, U.S. federal response failures, and extreme political polarization.

Rather than stepping away from public discourse, Rosselló chose to document the inside reality of leadership under pressure — including direct interactions with global political figures and the personal cost of reform-driven governance.

This book is not about legacy.
It’s about lessons future leaders can’t afford to ignore.

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“If we don’t attend to the polarization in our society, there will be serious challenges to our democracies.”

—Fmr. Governor Ricardo Rosselló

What Changed?

Writing The Radical Middle forced Rosselló to confront a difficult truth:
crisis doesn’t just expose systems, it exposes values.

Through the writing process, his experiences evolved into a broader framework for leadership in polarized societies — one that rejects extremes and argues for principled, accountable governance even when the political cost is high.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Publish a legacy or mission-driven book

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • First-time author
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Academic / educator
  • Nonprofit or mission-driven leader
  • Memoir & Fiction Project

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Rossell%C3%B3

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Yen Verhoef, PhD

Authors

Yen Verhoef is an educator and thought leader building a new model for how schools evolve inside outdated systems. Through Rebel Teaching, she challenges the inherited machinery of American education and offers a practical framework for repurposing it from within.

Her work sits at the intersection of:
• teacher leadership
• institutional change
• real-world implementation
• educational innovation at scale

Modern Author Program

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“After I announced Rebel Teaching, two major school districts hired me to implement the framework before the book was even finished.”

—Yen Verhoef, PhD

What Changed?

Yen entered the writing process expecting to publish a book.

Instead, the book became a lever.

Once the Rebel Teaching framework was named clearly, schools didn’t wait for publication. They moved early, hiring her to implement the approach across entire districts.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Support a consulting or speaking business
  •  Use a book as a business asset

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role
  • Needed structure and accountability

Role

  • Founder / entrepreneur
  • Academic / educator

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/yenv/

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Randi Braun

Authors

Randi Braun is the Founder and CEO of Something Major, a coaching and training organization helping women leaders navigate power, performance, and progression at work.

Her book, Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work, distills years of executive coaching, leadership training, and real-world observation into a practical, modern framework for women operating inside complex organizations.

The book went on to become a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, expanding Randi’s reach well beyond her existing audience.

Modern Author Program

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“I didn’t write this book to tell stories. I wrote it to give women a new operating system for work.”

—Randi Braun

What Changed?

Writing the book clarified something Randi had already been teaching for years:
women don’t need more advice, they need better systems.

The process forced precision. Ideas that lived comfortably in workshops and coaching sessions had to be sharpened, structured, and stress-tested on the page.

What emerged wasn’t just a book.
It was a platform-level asset that elevated her work, message, and market position.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  •  Use a book as a business asset
  • Support a consulting or speaking business
  • Publish a legacy or mission-driven book

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • First-time author
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role

Role

  • Consultant / advisor
  • Founder / entrepreneur
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Chris Mader

Authors

Chris Mader is an EOS Implementer and executive coach who has spent more than 30 years leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.

A former professional athlete turned C-suite executive, Chris has helped scale organizations beyond $100M in revenue and coached leaders across industries navigating growth, complexity, and change.

His book, Make the Adjustment, distills the leadership philosophy he’s lived and taught for decades—helping leaders respond to pressure with clarity, discipline, and intentional action.

Modern Author Program

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“The only thing you can control is yourself.
Leaders who learn to adjust in real time win.”

— Chris Mader

What Changed?

After years of coaching executives one-on-one, Chris recognized a pattern:

Leaders didn’t need more motivation.
They needed a repeatable framework for behavior change.

Writing the book allowed Chris to codify what he’d learned across sports, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship—turning lived experience into a scalable leadership model.

The book became both a capstone and a catalyst: clarifying his message while expanding his platform as a coach, speaker, and advisor.

Goal

  • Clarify and organize my ideas
  • Establish a category or methodology
  •  Use a book as a business asset

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role

Role

  • Consultant / advisor
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Jason Levin

Authors

Speaker, trainer, and coach with a decade-long idea around relationships and connection who had built a solid practice but hadn’t yet turned his core philosophy into a defining, market-anchoring asset.

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“The book didn’t just raise my profile, it fundamentally expanded the scope and value of the work I’m hired to do.”

—Jason Levin

What Changed?

The book became Jason’s intellectual foundation, a clear thesis on connection that elevated how he was perceived and what organizations hired him to deliver. After publication, his speaking fees increased 3–4x, the range of engagements widened, and larger, more complex organizations began pulling him into keynotes, retreats, and firm-wide programs.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  • Support a consulting or speaking business
  • Establish a category or methodology
  •  Use a book as a business asset

Constraints

  • Needed structure and accountability
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Founder / entrepreneur
  • Consultant / advisor

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Alyce Dailey

Authors

Alyce Dailey is an entrepreneur, leadership coach, and mother of four who spent nearly two decades building a successful referral-based real estate business while mentoring women in leadership and personal growth.

Her book, The MAGIC Mom, distills years of lived experience into a clear framework for raising confident, entrepreneurial daughters, without perfectionism, guilt, or hustle culture.

Alyce didn’t write to chase a list.
She wrote to articulate a philosophy she was already living.

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“This book wasn’t about becoming an author. It was about putting something meaningful into the world for my daughters and other moms.”

—Alyce Dailey

What Changed?

Writing the book forced Alyce to move from intuition to articulation.

Concepts she had practiced for years, modeling values, affirming growth, coaching with intention, became a named system: MAGIC.

That clarity created leverage.

Six months after release, The MAGIC Mom was named a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, ranking among the Top 25 nonfiction books, validating that the message resonated far beyond her immediate circle.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  •  Use a book as a business asset
  • Establish a category or methodology

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • Needed structure and accountability
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role

Role

  • Consultant / advisor
  •  Executive / C-suite
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Navid Nazemian

 

Authors

Senior global HR executive preparing for a major career transition who had deep experience and research but lacked a structured way to turn it into a defining body of work.

Modern Author Program

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“The book took years of thinking and research and finally turned it into a coherent framework I could stand behind as I transitioned into my next chapter.”

— Navid Nazemian

What Changed?

The book became the intellectual bridge between Navid’s corporate career and his next chapter as a world-class executive coach. What had been fragmented research and experience crystallized into a clear point of view, enabling a confident transition, global credibility, and recognition at the highest levels of the profession. Named the #1 Executive Coach by CEO Today in 2024 and 2025.

Goal

  • Build authority or thought leadership
  •  Establish a category or methodology
  • Publish a legacy or mission-driven book
  • Use a book as a business asset

Constraints

  • Limited time / full-time job
  • Needed structure and accountability
  • Balancing book with business or leadership role
  • Wanted editorial guidance, not ghostwriting

Role

  • Executive / C-suite
  • Consultant / advisor

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www.masteringexecutivetransitions.com

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