Featured Authors

Read the chapters. Then meet the author.

More books are being written than ever. Far fewer are being read by the rooms that matter.

CI3 features a small number of new and upcoming authors each cycle. Every featured author gets a chapter-by-chapter preview here on the platform, and a named in-person book signing at one of our Curated Leadership Experience editions.

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The current cycle

Featured now.

Each author below has a full chapter preview on the platform and a confirmed signing at a named edition. Slots are deliberately few, and selection is curated rather than first-come.

Featured · Beyond the Competence Trap · Nov 14Dr. Charles IgweThe Competence TrapDetails

Four parts, twelve chapters, and one collision between merit and system logic. Charles anchors the author layer of the November edition and signs in person on the day.

Full Trap Index and chapter preview on the platform.
In-person signing at the November CLE edition.

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Featured · The Second Immigration · Join the waitlistTemisan SagayTechnical program manager · AI, data, CRM, strategy & governanceDetails

Temisan brings 12+ years leading AI, cybersecurity, CRM, and governance initiatives across complex public and regulated environments, translating deep execution credibility into a clearer strategic signal others can recognize and trust.

Her debut book, The Second Immigration, Book One of the Japa Diary, covers strategies for surviving the invisible exhaustion of working remotely across cultures, time zones, and expectations.

Chapter preview and signing date to follow once the edition is confirmed.

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Featured AuthorAbout AtifMBA, CPADetails

Atif Rashid, MBA, CPA, is an author, TEDx speaker, resilience coach, and founder of Inspire1 - Impact Billions, a global movement dedicated to building a more resilient world. A cancer survivor and right-leg amputee, Atif transformed life-altering adversity into a mission to help others lead with courage, positivity, and purpose. Blending business expertise, lived experience, practical frameworks, and humor, he inspires individuals and organizations to navigate change and turn setbacks into meaningful growth. His book, One Leg. One Life. No Excuses., brings his message of resilience and self-leadership to audiences worldwide.

What happens when life takes away the future you imagined? In One Leg. One Life. No Excuses., Atif Rashid shares his journey through childhood adversity, immigration, cancer, amputation, and rebuilding his life with purpose. More than an inspirational memoir, this story-driven guide explores resilience, positivity, and self-leadership without pretending adversity is easy. Through lived experience, practical reflections, and his 5R Framework®, Atif shows how small choices can help us navigate uncertainty, rebuild after loss, and turn pain into purpose. His message is simple: you cannot always control what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond.

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03Slot open · Edition to be matchedApply to be featured →Business, reinvention, or enterpriseDetails

Reserved for an author writing into business, entrepreneurship, reinvention, or the practical demands of leading beyond technical excellence.

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04Slot open · Edition to be matchedApply to be featured →Identity, pressure, or sustainabilityDetails

Reserved for an author examining pressure, resilience, identity, or the systems required for healthier and more sustainable leadership.

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How featuring works

Three things, in this order.

Your chapters go up first.

We build you a chapter preview on the platform: each chapter as its own panel, with the teaser that makes a reader open it. The book gets read before the room meets you.

You are matched to an edition.

CI3 runs Curated Leadership Experience editions through the year. You are placed in the one where your book actually lands, not the next one on the calendar.

You commit to signing in person.

Your edition page names the date and city of your signing, and being in the room on the day is the commitment you make in return. Readers who came through your chapter preview arrive already knowing your argument.

Editions can travel.

Editions are not permanently fixed to one city. Where there is enough author and speaker interest in a region, CI3 will look at bringing an edition there.

What we ask in return

Featuring is free. It is not one-way.

CI3 carries the preview, the curation, the room and the signing, and charges an author nothing for any of it. What we ask back is not money. It is the three things that make an edition work for you and for everyone else in it.

You are there on the day.

Featured authors attend their matched edition in person and sign. The signing is the part a reader travels for, and it only exists if you are in the room.

You bring the books.

Authors supply copies of their book on site for the signing, plus a few complimentary signed copies for CI3 to keep and to place where they do the most good.

You help fill the room.

You promote your edition actively to your own audience. A curated room is built by everyone on the bill, and the readers you bring are the ones most likely to open your chapters first.