Janni wins Business Book of the Year 2023

Leader as Healer by Nicholas Janni (LID Publishing) has been crowned Business Book of the Year 2023 while Kogan Page titles topped three categories.

The Business Book Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday (16th May) in partnership with the Pathway Group, at a annual gala dinner at The Drum in London.

After whittling down 300 entries from around the world into a shortlist of over 100, a panel of judges chose the winners and runners up in each category. The final winner was selected from their winning categories by head judge Jacq Burns. Janni had initially won the Leadership Book category for Leader as Healer (LID Publishing) before being named overall winner.

In regards to the other categories, Kogan Page came top three times across the 13 categories: Rachel Lawes’ Using Semiotics in Retail (Kogan Page) won Sales and Marketing, Positively Purple (Kogan Page) by Kate Nash was awarded Diversity, Inclusion and Equality prize while The Sustainable Business Handbook by David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee took the Change & Sustainability category.

Elsewhere, How to be a Founder (Bloomsbury Business) by Alice Bentinck & Matt Clifford took the Start-Up/Scale-Up category while the prize for People Culture & Management went to The Future of Time (Practical Inspiration Publishing) by Helen Beedham. The Work and Life award went to How to Fund the Life You Want (Bloomsbury Business) by Robin Powell & Jonathan Hollow, Business Self-development was awarded to Glow in the Dark (John Murray) by Mark Leruste.

The Wellness & Wellbeing prize went to Do/Deal (The Do Book Company) by Richard Hoare and Andrew Gummer, while Simon Alexander Ong took the Short Business Book for Energize (Penguin Business).

Specialist Book went to Creativity for Scientists and Engineers (IOP Publishing) by Dennis Sherwood while the Business Journey prize went to In the Meantime (Right Book Press) by Nick Miller. Disruption in Action (Spark Optimus) by Alexandra Jankovich, Tom Voskes and Adrian Hornsby was named Smart Thinking Book of the Year while David Enrich’s Servants of the Damned (Scribe Publications) won International Business Book.

Janni said of winning the Business Book of the Year 2023: “I am honoured to receive these awards and take them as a strong affirmation of the work of healing and awakening that more and more of us are bringing to the corporate world and beyond. The world is terribly broken. We urgently need leaders who embody deep, soulful, heartfelt presence – bringing service to the greater whole as their primary commitment."

Founder Lucy McCarraher, said: “In the sixth year of The Business Book Awards, we see the increasing significance of all the genres of books we include in ‘business’.

“The Business Book Awards are primarily for UK authors and publishers, but they have gained global recognition, and the number of entries to our ‘International’ category has been overwhelming this year.”