Connected Leadership: Wisdom For Women Who Lead
By Sue Watson
‘An empowering read for women who reject playing by outdated rules. Smart, practical, and motivational.’ – Rt Hon Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Women are stepping into senior leadership roles in greater numbers than ever before. Yet, many find themselves exhausted, isolated, and questioning whether they want to stay. Burnout is on the rise, equal footing is far from a reality, and more women leaders are choosing to leave their roles.
Connected Leadership offers a different way forward.
Drawing on years of coaching experience, leadership development and working with women leaders across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, this book reframes leadership through the power of connection.
Rather than asking women to be more resilient, more confident, or more accommodating, Connected Leadership provides a grounded, practical framework for navigating the world of leadership as it really is for women.
Through four phases – Pause, Contextualise, Connect, and Sustain – acclaimed leadership coach and CEO Sue Watson takes readers through her coaching process of building lasting, impactful, purpose-driven leadership. Women may come to this book feeling exhausted, frustrated, and fed up. But they will leave focused, intentional, and deeply connected to themselves, to their communities, and to their leadership purpose.
Pre-order now through Connected Leadership, Amazon, or ask your favourite local bookseller.
ISBN: 978-1-0672762-0-1
RRP $37.95
Booksellers may contact dataylor@outlook.co.nz for New Zealand distribution.
Finding Cynthia Winters
By Sue Watson
A powerful, moving, and darkly-honest memoir.
Sue Watson grew up in a perfect, loving nuclear family, a white-picket fence, quarter acre paradise. But all was not quite as it seemed.
Sue and her sister were adopted, and one day when Sue as a young woman was studying in Wellington, she received a letter from her birth mother Elizabeth Winters. This began a life-long journey to discover the shadowy truth of her past.
After decades in leadership roles and developing leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sue has spent the last three years researching her birth family history and leaning into creative pursuits as a tool for connection, healing and acceptance. Finding Cynthia Winters shares her experience with reconnecting with her birth mother and the journey to seek the identity of her birth father.
It's a personal story of discovery, human nature, connection and the nuance of what it means to be a family.
Order via Lasavia Publishing, Amazon, or ask your favourite local book seller.
Published February 16 2026 by Lasavia Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-991083-43-2
RRP $35