Strategic Frameworks for Modern Leaders
True transformation requires more than just a plan; it requires a deep understanding of people, data, and power dynamics. Cindy Tonkin is the author of 21 business books that serve as the intellectual foundation for her work as a Strategic Chief of Staff.
These publications are not merely theoretical; they are pragmatic playbooks developed over 38 years of working with blue-chip and regulated organisations. From architecting executive offsites to making data teams more influential, Cindy’s books provide the “how-to” for leaders who need to deliver graceful and lasting change.
Strategic Alignment & Governance
- The Definitive Guide to Executive Retreat Architecture
- Office Politics: You don’t have to play but you do need to know the rules to stay off the field! manual for navigating complex stakeholder machinations in blue-chip environments
- The Quick and Easy Guide to Documenting What you Do – critical tool for mitigating key-person risk and ensuring operational transparency.
Precision and Data Leadership
- Smarter Data People: How Data Science Recruits (with Robyn Brown) Cindy’s flagship for leading data science and analytics teams to work “smarter, faster, and nicer”.
- Consulting Mastery: Being good is not enough Discover the “Ability Myth,” proving that being good is just the baseline for executive-level delivery.
Performance and Executive Communication
- Presentation Mastery: Persuade, Inform and Inspire – the tools you need to influence and inspire at Board level
- Executive Briefing: High-Stakes Influence – a deep dive into the mechanics of high-stakes influence.
- Self-promotion: Strategic Recogntion and Internal Influence – This is all about strategic recognition – how leaders ensure their team’s value is properly understood by the organisation
- Workplace peace: You can change the world where you work – a framework for cultural transformation and conflict resolution
Advanced Influence and Human Behaviour Frameworks
- NLP Framework Guide: all the practitioner patterns step-by-step
- NLP Framework Guide II: all the master practitioner patterns step-by-step
- NLPers Business Framework Pack: What they don’t teach you in prac
The whole Consultant’s Guides Series, or by individual book:
- 1: I want to be a Consultant
- 2: Set up your Consultancy Office
- 3: It’s Official: Setting up your Australian Consultancy Practice Properly
- 4: How Much to Charge for Consulting
- 5: Market your Consultancy Without Cold Calling
- 6: Keep Your Consultancy Business Running Smoothly
- 7: Stay Cheerful: 89 things to do between Consulting Assignments
- 8: Consultants’ Companion: Improving Your Consulting Business 30 Minutes a Week
- 9: Eight (more) ways to Promote Your Consulting Business (out of print)
- 10: Making Your Consultancy a Business, Not a Job
- 11: Consulting Mastery: The Ability Myth – being good is not enough