Ashton recommends

• Lean In for Graduates - Sheryl Sandberg

• Ditching Imposter Syndrome: How to Finally Feel Good Enough and Become the Leader You were Born to Be - Clare Jose

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss

• Creativity, Inc.—Ed Catmull

• The Science of Getting Started: How to Beat Procrastination, Summon Productivity, and Stop Self-Sabotage - Patrick King.

Payton Barnwell recommends

• The Unaccountability Machine talks about improving systems to ensure people are accountable—it works for more than just business!

• Range—How being a generalist is a win too! You don't need a PhD to really gather a ton of skills.

• Unreasonable Hospitality—About award-winning restaurants but SO applicable to having thoughtful products due to iteration and systems thinking.

Skylar Hoover recommends

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

Kara Baldwin recommends

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith— One of my all-time favorite books, I’ve reread this SO many times; it’s fiction but touches on many real-life problems that I and so many others have experienced growing up; these events shape the way we approach our future.

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown—any book or podcast by her is fantastic!

• Wintering the power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May