💚🔥 Hmmmm… thinking about what my next book should be.

Not plotting chapters yet.

Just feeling the pull of questions that keep coming back.

After writing a book born of fire, lived leadership, real risk, real growth, I’m noticing a new set of ideas that feel urgent, honest, and deeply connected to where I am now as a leader and thinker.

Here are a few that keep circling:

🐲 My Origins,How I Became the Dragon Leader I Am

Not just the timeline of my life, but the shifts in inner logic that turned wounds into wisdom, courage into curiosity, and survival into capacity.

I want to explore how leadership is forged in the day-to-day, not just on the big stages. Many of you may recognize yourself on a similar path I walked on my wsy to where I stand today.

🤝 What Women Engineers Are Told (Co-authored with Anca)

Not another “things are unfair” book

but a clear-eyed language for the everyday scripts that women in engineering are handed, internalize, resist, and sometimes repeat without realizing.

It’s the grammar of culture, not just the headlines.

💎 Why Soft Skills Are Not “Soft”

…and why empowering leadership isn’t non-technical at all

This one feels closest to where my thinking is right now: soft skills aren’t a deviation from technical expertise. They are technical leadership when you’re trying to scale real systems, real teams, and real outcomes.

The misconception I keep bumping up against, that empathy, curiosity, listening, sense-making, and communication are somehow less technical, is exactly the assumption this book would dismantle.

Leadership that empowers doesn’t step away from tech, it amplifies technical impact by creating clarity, shared understanding, and safe space for engineers to own architecture, risk, and innovation.

🧵✨ The red thread of motivation and how it becomes golden company impact

A book about connecting what drives people to what creates value.

How leaders help engineers translate meaning, values, and motivation (the red thread) into clarity, decisions, and sustainable outcomes (the gold).

Not through control or artificial narratives, but by reducing complexity, aligning systems, and making impact visible.

📘 How to deliver timely support and deep hyperfocus innovation without taking over

A practical how-to on leading at two depths at once.

Being reliably available for surface-level support, continuity, and decisions, while protecting deep focus for innovation, system improvement, and future impact.

All without disempowering teams, so ownership, confidence, and delivery keep increasing instead of collapsing upward.

🐒🏗️ The organizational failure of turning leaders into monkeys

A book about first-team vs second-team thinking, and how organizations quietly break leadership by design.

About what happens when middle management is treated like leadership monkeys:

passing messages, enforcing decisions, executing someone else’s thinking, without agency, context, or trust.

Not because leaders are incapable.

But because the system doesn’t allow them to lead.

Just like we once created coding monkeys, and then wondered why quality, ownership, and innovation collapsed

we still create leadership monkeys, and then blame “middle management” when nothing scales.

🪽 Why Frameworks Fail, and How Connecting Sparks Works Instead

This one is the rebel in the room.

Not anti-framework, but anti-checklist thinking without context.

The truth is: models don’t fail because they’re bad, they fail when people treat them as prescriptions instead of meaning-makers.

This book would challenge leaders to shift from installation to illumination, connecting ideas, people, and sparks so something new actually emerges.

Underlying all of this is a bigger question I’m sitting with:

Who am I writing for now?

The leader I was becoming?

The woman I had to become to survive and thrive?

Or the ones who feel different, and haven’t yet found language for that difference?

I don’t have a neat answer yet, and that’s okay.

Every book that felt like truth started with curiosity, not certainty.

So for now, I’m letting these ideas circle.

Letting them test their weight.

Letting the right one step forward when its time comes.

💚🐲

What book would you want to read from me next?