Contagious Confidence - by Julie Smith (Hardcover)

About the Book

As an under-pressure leader, how can you do more with less? By fuelling the confidence of your people. Discover how to build belief and power the performance of your organization.

Book Synopsis

Are you a leader grappling with the challenge of delivering more and more impact but without additional people or resources?

If so, you'll be all too familiar with this critical leadership question: how to convert an ambitious agenda into reality without risking burnout for you or your team?

The solution is to unleash a confidence contagion.

Organizations run on confidence. When people's self-belief matches their capability, they feel able to stretch themselves, taking on new challenges and extending their impact. Collective confidence enables teams to stride forward towards their goals, holding each other to high standards of collaboration and effectiveness.

Packed with insights, relatable stories and 50 practical tools, Contagious Confidence helps you to build the kind of individual and collective confidence that fuels results.

Julie Smith is a sought-after executive coach who works with leaders to grow their impact and supports teams to grow their effectiveness. Find out more at www.talentsprout.co.uk.

From the Back Cover

Are you a leader grappling with the challenge of delivering more and more impact but without additional people or resources?

If so, you'll be all too familiar with this critical leadership question: how to convert an ambitious agenda into reality without risking burnout for you or your team?

The solution is to unleash a confidence contagion.

Organizations run on confidence. When people's self-belief matches their capability, they feel able to stretch themselves, taking on new challenges and extending their impact. Collective confidence enables teams to stride forward towards their goals, holding each other to high standards of collaboration and effectiveness.

Packed with insights, relatable stories and 50 practical tools, Contagious Confidence helps you to build the kind of individual and collective confidence that fuels results.

About the Author

Julie Smith is an experienced executive coach and the founder of boutique leadership consultancy Talent Sprout. Julie's mission is to encourage and enable leaders to stretch themselves, to deepen their awareness and to grow their impact.

Julie has coached hundreds of executives and leadership teams both in the UK and internationally, working with well-known organizations across sectors ranging from packaged consumer goods to technology, insurance to luxury goods and banking to hospitality. Her corporate clients choose to work with her again and again - testament to her skill as a coach and her commitment to partnership.

Described by her clients as insightful, collaborative and 'one of the best in her field', Julie has designed development programmes that participants find 'life changing' and delivered keynote talks praised as 'perspective-shifting, thought-provoking and action-inspiring.'

Julie's first book, Coach Yourself Confident: Ditch the Self-doubt Tax, Unlock Humble Confidence is a multiple award winner, including Best Business Self Development Book of 2025 at the Business Book Awards.