Transformative Books

Six publications on leadership, diversity, and career development that provide actionable frameworks for personal and organizational transformation.

Available in Audio, Hardcover, Paperback, and Digital formats

Diversity & Inclusion: The Big Six Formula for Success

Diversity & Inclusion: The Big Six Formula for Success

This book describes the “New Normal” and offers an action plan for utilizing Diversity & Inclusion as a key business strategy. It provides a roadmap for navigating the increasing diversity in the workplace and marketplace, serving as a “Toolkit” of strategies for leveraging the power of D&I.

Make It Happen: 12 Steps to Reimagining Success and Creating the Career of Your Dreams

Make It Happen: 12 Steps to Reimagining Success and Creating the Career of Your Dreams

A guide for modern professionals seeking to progress in their careers while maintaining relationships and respect. It addresses the “unwritten” rules of career building and navigating organizational politics in a multi-generational workplace.

The Inclusion Solution: My Big Six Formula for Success

The Inclusion Solution: My Big Six Formula for Success

A practical approach to inclusion and diversity, emphasizing its role in building capacity, market share, and revenues.

New-School Leadership: Making a Difference in the 21st Century

New-School Leadership: Making a Difference in the 21st Century

A roadmap for transformational leadership, drawing upon decades of business experience to offer explicit directions for improving leadership skills. It highlights principles such as continuous learning, growth, innovation, and setting clear expectations.

Association Management Excellence: Become an Expert by Preparing for the CAE Exam

Association Management Excellence: Become an Expert by Preparing for the CAE Exam

Designed to assist executive-level individuals preparing for the Certified Association Executive (CAE) exam. It includes information, references, and tips for studying and taking the test, outlining strategies and tactics for preparation.

Where is Your Why?: A Formula of Building Blocks to Attain Success

Where is Your Why?: A Formula of Building Blocks to Attain Success

Guides readers on how to develop and execute a personal plan of attack to achieve their important goals. A framework for identifying “What Matters” and strategically focusing on it.

Praise for the Books

Where is your Why? unpacks the thinking behind D.A. Abrams’s well-reasoned and inspiring “Formula” for success…

Katrina M. Adams

Author of “Own The Arena”

Make It Happen is the modern bible for all things career-related for the modern professional.

Jennifer Brown

President & CEO, Jennifer Brown Consulting

New-School Leadership is a road map toward the transformational leadership that D.A. has demonstrated in business and in life.

Honorable David N. Dinkins

106th Mayor of the City of New York

Diversity & Inclusion clearly describes the “New Normal” and offers a “ready to go” Action Plan for any organization that wants to use D&I as a key business strategy.

Dr. Dale G. Caldwell

Author, Intelligent Influence

The Inclusion Solution is not a theoretical book about INCLUSION & Diversity. It is a book about building capacity, market share and revenues.

Andre Taylor

Author, Entrepreneur, Media Personality

Association Management Excellence is a must read for any career minded individual who is pursuing the coveted Certified Association Executive (CAE) distinction.

Rory Paquette