Charlotte Otter I Author

A view of Lion‘s Head, the ocean to the left and a foreground of Cape fynbos

Beautiful mountain walk, Cape Town

Target picks an insider to lead the struggling company when CEO Brian Cornell steps down next year Target CEO Brian Cornell plans to step down Feb. 1. He helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more competitive retail landscape.

Target: We're stepping back from DEI.

Customers: We're stepping back from Target!

Target: Looks like we're having financial difficulties.

‘It was a slow learn for me that my voice has impact.’ Great episode with speaker, emcee and moderator Kerrie Finch: iono.fm/e/1579956

Please consider subscribing! We’re showcasing leaders who’re bursting the bubble of traditional leadership. And it will help me grow as a solo female podcaster.

We Need New Leaders | Diversity Conversations with Charlotte Otter YouTube video by Diversity Conversations

Live here later today. Looking forward to a great conversation: youtube.com/live/T3Kobpm...

I think we witnessed it the first time around and then watched you all dive in for a second round - that’s the embarrassment.

Speech Bubbles by Charlotte Otter. Read and subscribe at otterc.substack.com

I have me a Substack. I’d love you to read it.

Do you like discounts *and* supporting independently published books and their publishers?

We Need New Leaders is available on discount for North American readers. You can buy the book at a 35% discount using the code WNNL35 on IndiePubs.

Here's the link: 
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The front cover of the book We Need New Leaders with a sticker in the top right corner saying ‘Signed edition’

Full circle moment: a thesis that began as part of the Change Leadership course run by Oxford Said and HEC Paris is now a book in the Oxford University bookshop Blackwells. Signed by the author of course!

Me in a baseball cap holding a copy of my book with a wall of books behind me. The book has a small circular sticker in the top right corner that says ‘Signed by the author’.

Visiting We Need New Leaders in all the Waterstones of London today. I find it, offer to sign it and they slap a sticker on. ‘A signed book is a sold book,’ one bookseller told me. This the Trafalgar Square branch.

Charlotte dressed in navy with a red door and green plants behind her, a big smile and holding a copy of her book We Need New Leaders.

Book launch London. We Need New Leaders is well and truly on its way!

#Vancouver skyline reflected. Here for a book launch; arrived early to get over jet lag, lol, and see a bit of this lovely city. #photography #city #skyline #ShotOnIPhone #amateur

A view of Vancouver’s downtown area from up in the sky, with a stadium in the foreground, skyscrapers in the middle and the peninsula of Stanley Park behind. In the far background is ocean and distant snow-capped mountains.

#Vancouver from above. Serial scaredy cat went up in a sea plane and bloody loved it. #photography #city #ShotOnIPhone #amateur

A picture of the Amazon bestseller book rankings with We Need New Leaders at the #1 slot.

#1 in Diversity & Inclusion in the US! Thanks to everyone who’s been buying it - very exciting! Can’t wait for reader feedback.

Picture of the front and back covers of We Need New Leaders with the words ‘ebook offer June 2 only 99c’

Defenders of democracy, this is happening tomorrow. One day 99c ebook promotion. #books #authors #ebook #booksky #skybooks #nonfiction #newleaders #leadershipcrisis

A view of Heidelberg on a cloudy day with a foreground of bright red poppies

Heidelberg & poppies. Also, my new book We Need New Leaders is available on the Kindle store on Monday for a one-day promotion of 99c. Buying on that day *really* helps grow a buzz around the book. #photograpy #ShotOniPhone #Heidelberg #skybooks #BookSky #authors #writers #Kindle #promotion

A picture of the book we need New Leaders with the text ‘ebook offer 99c June 2 only’

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Good day on Hardle. This is seldom the case.

Congrats, Anita!

Front and back covers of Charlotte’s new book We Need New Leaders. The four words of the title are written in pink, red, blue and green respectively and then the sub-head Mastering reputation management to reshape the C- Suite appears in a large red speech bubble

#Writers and #authors of #skybooks, who has a #book being #published in June 2025? Here’s a pic of mine. Answers on a postcard or in comments if you prefer.

Pic of Heidelberg with the towers and arches of the Old Bridge reflected in the perfectly still river

Heidelberg serving acutely perfect #photography #ShotOniPhone #nature #city #Heidelberg #amateur

Picture of two people holding up the world, with the words We Need New Leaders who are … aware authentic learners diverse humane inclusive

Tiny thumbnail of a one-page sketch that @tanmayvora.bsky.social drew for We Need New Leaders. The full sketch is available on my new members-only section on charlotteotter.com.

Thanks for the offer! I’ve written crime fiction; about to publish my first leadership book.

The front and back covers of Charlotte’s forthcoming book We Need New Leaders.

18 days till launch! Very excited to share my leadership book with the world - the contents are even more appropriate in 2025 than they were when I was writing it in late 2024. June 2 is big ebook promotion day, if you like a bargain. #books #writers #leadership #blueskybooks

Picture of Heidelberg old town taken from the opposite hillside and with two bright red poppies in the foreground.

Heidelberg with poppies #iPhone #photography #Heidelberg #amateur

Episode 7 has landed, with the brilliant Gillian Jones-Williams. Talking thriving with neurodiversity, inclusive leadership, resilience and her award-winning programmes for women and men.

Picture of a white Gothic Revival building against a blue sky and with leafy branches in the foreground.

City Hall, Vienna, on a sunny May day weekend

Painting of a garden scene with winding path and plants on either side with foliage in different greens and some with blossoms in pink, yellow or white

Contemporary, pointillist garden painting by UK artist Susan Entwistle #womensart

When your pod is nestled up with your hero’s pod on your pod feed 😇😍🥰

I am so deeply ashamed of the human race, particularly the ones who think it’s funny to pick on the vulnerable.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver