We’re really proud of our authors, what they’ve accomplished, even before they decided to write a book.

Take Dr. Bridget Cooper for example.

Dr. Bridget Cooper is a cage rattler, change strategist, thought shifter, and breakthrough coach. Trained as a marriage and family therapist, she earned a doctorate in educational leadership, and after a stint in corporate human resources and higher education, began her coaching and speaking practice. For almost two decades, she’s served hundreds of clients around the world, from Girl Scouts to Vietnam Vets; from universities to jails; from Fortune 500 companies to law firms.

Through leadership assimilation, strategic planning, change management, and positive relationship building, she helps shift company cultures and create powerful interaction and shared accountability among team members by supporting leaders in their influence and stewardship. Dr. B. is also a TEDx speaker and best-selling author of six additional books on communication, conflict, change, and empowerment.

Impressive, right?

Dr. Bridget is the author of Unflappable: How Smart People Quit Overthinking, Ditch the Drama, & Thrive at Work

Here’s how we describe it…

You can assemble the smartest, most capable people in one company, and their success will hinge on the quality of their interactions—success depends on how people understand themselves and see others. Interpret wrong, and stress and conflict skyrocket.
Conflict often proliferates when people are stretched thin and overwhelmed, and conflict stresses people. It’s a chicken-or-the-egg phenomenon really. This book addresses them both.

Stress management is not only a life skill, but also a key leadership tool—as is conflict resolution. Yet, neither are taught, which leaves workers, managers, and leaders not only lacking the skill to make it better but possessing the behaviors that make it worse.

How do you do take charge of yourself, ditch the drama, and find calm at work? You must stop overthinking. You want to find solutions to what’s stressing you out, so you hash (and rehash) situations over (and over and over and over) again, trying to find the answer.

Unflappable: How Smart People Quit Overthinking, Ditch the Drama; and Thrive at Work is a collection of game-changing tools, tactics, and frameworks professionals all around the world use to wildly improve the way they work and live—to succeed faster, bounce back higher, and live happier.

We had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. B and discuss the writing and publishing process, and what she hopes to accomplish with her book. You might want to listen in.

We’re expecting great things for Dr. Bridget Cooper and Unflappable. Watch this space for more.

And if you’d like to be Summit Press Publishers’ next author, you can apply to work with us right here.