Bøker av Laura Barnard

Drive high-IMPACT business value with a game-changing strategy delivery systemORGANIZATIONS must accelerate strategic results to thrive, and they need you in the driver's seat. How do you achieve this, even when firefighting is the norm? With three decades helping organizations deliver change, 2021 World PMO Influencer Laura Barnard unveils the system she uses with clients and students to evolve stagnant project and transformation teams into nimble, business-driven delivery engines.The IMPACT Engine is a comprehensive playbook that will help you accelerate business value, deliver sustainable change, drive higher ROI, increase stakeholder buy-in, and earn your place guiding organizational priorities.Following the six-stage road map, you will embrace the IMPACT Driver Mindset, secure quick wins, and scale value while addressing shifting business priorities-the key to sustained relevance at the leadership table as the Strategy Navigator your C-Suite needs by their side. Packed with real-world examples and downloadable tools, this system will help you ignite high-performance delivery across the organization.

One night changes everything...She''s an aspiring fashionista with her eyes on her career.He''s a government official who''s married to his country.From the moment Charlotte Bellswain and Arthur Ellison meet, their chemistry is off the charts.Everything about them is wrong, but neither of them can resist one stolen night together.Even if the consequences are life changing.He warns her he''ll let her down. More than once. And that the eyes of the country are on them both.That doesn''t stop her hoping that he might just change his ways and grow a heart.Can a creative soul and an analytical mind put aside their differences and navigate this pregnancy together? They need to make their minds up as time is running out... 

Shots of tequila in Mexico is the dream...Sipping tea in the Yorkshire countryside is her reality...  Sent to live with her cousin Elsie in the Yorkshire countryside, Rose has only one thing on her mind; joining her friends as a club rep in Mexico.When she hears about a council incentive offering the promise of free flights to the person who clocks the most volunteering hours at the local care home, she''s got her plan set. But she doesn''t plan on bonding with the old ladies, going after the village bad boy and trying to persuade Elsie not to become a Nun.Soon she''s questioning who her real friends are and whether her old life is one she wants to return to.Can the village win her over and will she win the chance to leave it behind? Will she even want to?

Alice is used to taking photographs for a living - not having intimate pictures of herself posted for all the world to see, thanks to a disgruntled ex-boyfriend. Now her clients are cancelling appointments, and she's almost out of cash. What else could go wrong? Oh yeah, her room mate has scarpered leaving Alice completely out of luck. Enter Tom 'man whore' Maddens. Having disappointed his father one time too many, he moves to Brighton, ready for a new start. And where better to begin it than in Alice's newly-vacant spare room? And if he tries to seduce her at the same time? Well he's just living up to his reputation isn't he? But then he didn't bank on actually falling for her. Will his reputation as a commitment phobe put a stop to any sparks between the pair? Or can Alice put aside her trust issues and take a leap of faith for Tom?

AMAZON BEST-SELLING AUTHOR BRINGS YOU MARRYING MR VALENTINE! Nadine Roberts smiles for everyone, but beneath it she hides a heartbreaking past that only a few know about. Throwing herself into her new career; wedding planner at The Duck & Goose, a property recently purchased by newlyweds Florence and Hugh, has helped distract her from her loneliness. When a teary bride suddenly cancels her upcoming wedding Nadine looks to the two year waiting list. Clara Blumenkrantz and Hartley Valentine. It'll have to be a quick turnaround, but what's the worst that can happen, right? This should be like every other wedding she plans, but the magnetism she feels towards Mr Valentine disrupts the orderly life she's worked hard to carve out. Can she ignore her intense desires and be a professional? Or will she open up her heart to the one person that has the power to break it? And in doing so endanger not just her job, but her venue's reputation?

Melinda is already having a crappy Christmas. Forced to attend some snotty bitch's wedding is not the way to start out the holidays. But when a car crash pushes her into the path of a handsome stranger she's glad to follow his snowy, sexy and seductive path. But is he too good to be true? And will she make it to the wedding before her best friend loses her mind with worry?Please note this is a short story of 10k words