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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02Slot open · Edition to be matchedApply to be featured →Leadership, career, or systemsDetails

Reserved for an author whose book helps capable professionals convert competence into visibility, influence, or decision-making power.

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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 sign in person.

Your edition page names the date and city of your signing. 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.