Contagious Confidence: A leader's guide to building belief and powering performance

by Julie Smith

Overview

Organizations run on confidence.

When people’s self-belief matches their capability, they feel able to step forward, take on new challenges, stretch themselves. When teams are connected by trust and respect, they are more ambitious in what they deliver together. And thoughtful, wholehearted confidence in the organization’s mission acts as oxygen for collective performance.

Unleash a confidence contagion and unlock the strongest level of contribution from your team.

In this engaging and practical book, the award-winning author of Coach Yourself Confident reveals how you can empower your people to trust in themselves, to trust in each other, and to trust in your shared endeavour.

Julie Smith is a sought-after executive coach who works with leaders to grow their impact and supports teams to grow their effectiveness. Find out more at www.talentsprout.co.uk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788609241
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	06/22/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240

About the Author

Julie Smith is a sought-after executive coach and keynote speaker who works with leaders to grow their impact and supports teams to grow their effectiveness. Julie’s first book, Coach Yourself Confident: Ditch the Self-doubt Tax, Unlock Humble Confidence won the 2024 getAbstract International Business Impact Award - Readers’ Choice.

Julie Smith is a sought-after coach who has been supporting leaders to grow their confidence for three decades. A 15+ year corporate career with Mars and PepsiCo gave Julie first-hand experience of what it takes to succeed in a demanding, fast-paced organization.

In 2010 Julie founded Talent Sprout, a highly respected leadership consultancy. Since then, she has coached hundreds of executives and leadership teams internationally, working with L’Oreal, Mulberry, Unilever, Expedia, HSBC and more. She has designed and delivered development programmes that participants describe as ‘life changing’.

This work has enabled Julie to gain real insight into what creates self-doubt and what unlocks self-belief, and she has spent more than a decade developing, testing and honing frameworks and tools that unleash confidence.

A member of numerous professional networks, Julie blogs regularly about the challenges of leading in today’s world, the critical need for self-awareness and the magic of self-confidence.