Boss B*tch. Your Ultimate Guide to Leading with Confidence (en Inglés) - Mel Milton-Smith

Boss B*tch is a comprehensive leadership guide for women who are ready to lead with confidence and reclaim their power at work.

As an executive coach and training facilitator, Dr Mel Milton-Smith has worked with hundreds of women across industries and career stages. Time and again, she sees the same pattern: capable women who have every reason to be confident, yet walk into rooms with quiet voices, minimized selves, and a tendency to play small.

This book is for those women. With candor and compassion, Dr Milton-Smith weaves real-world insights, evidence-based research, and practical tools to help readers build confidence across the five domains of her LEVIA Framework: Lead, Elevate, Value, Intuit, and Assert.

Dr Mel Milton-Smith also tackles the “elephants in the boardroom”: the gender pay gap, the motherhood tax, and the double binds women often face around confidence, competence, and likability.

Drawing on global research, she shows how systemic inequality and social conditioning can undermine women’s confidence—and what practical steps women and their allies can take to shift the balance. The tone is honest, warm, and often wry.

Readers will find exercises on building trust and influence, challenging unhelpful feedback, and breaking cycles of people-pleasing. They’ll also see themselves in the stories of women who chose to leave employers that didn’t value them—and build successful careers on their own terms.

The book closes by encouraging women to claim their power at work and in life, and to connect with a wider community through Dr Mel Milton-Smith’s online platform and training programs.

For female-identifying readers and allies aged roughly ages 25–50, Boss B*tch is more than a pep talk. It’s a practical, research-backed guide for leading with confidence—on your terms.

Blending real stories, research, and coaching insights, Boss B*tch empowers women to overcome barriers, honor their values, and lead with confidence. The book reclaims language used to diminish women, turning it into a catalyst for confident leadership.

Boss B*tch is for women who are done shrinking to fit others’ expectations. Part manifesto and part toolkit, it helps readers build confidence from the inside out - starting with their core values and radiating out to effective communication and leadership presence. Drawing on her work as an award-winning academic and executive coach, Dr Mel Milton-Smith shares candid insights from workshops and coaching sessions, along with practical tools to address imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, and the gendered expectations that can affect women’s careers.

•Introduces the LEVIA Framework (Lead, Elevate, Value, Intuit, Assert)—a clear, memorable structure that readers and facilitators can easily apply in coaching, leadership programs, and corporate training.

•Tackles inner and outer barriers to confidence: imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and people-pleasing, as well as gender pay gaps, motherhood penalties, and biased promotion systems.

•Rich with real-life case studies from workshops and coaching clients, making concepts highly relatable for corporate, government, and community-sector audiences.

•Author is an award-winning executive coach and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Western Australia, with extensive experience training leaders and speaking at events such as TEDxPerth and the Social Impact Festival.

•Strong international appeal for women’s leadership, confidence, and workplace equality conversations in ANZ, UK, and North America, supported by an online club offering courses and community. • Ideal for readers of Untamed (Glennon Doyle), Dare to Lead (Brené Brown), Atlas of the Heart (Brené Brown), and The Confidence Code (Katty Kay & Claire Shipman).