The Inner Shift for
High-Achieving Women
Who Want More Than Just Success
A research-based guide
built on four decades in the C-suite
and 62 interviews with senior leaders —
the shift from proving to alignment.
Success Was Just the Beginning.
Now It’s Time for You…
You’ve built the career. Earned the respect. Checked all the boxes. But somewhere along the way, your deeper why got buried beneath the doing.
SelfPowerment is a transformative guide for high-achieving women ready to lead from a place of clarity, confidence, and choice.
This isn’t about scaling back ambition—it’s about becoming who you already are with clarity, confidence, and choice.
Your inner shift begins now. This shift begins within.
What's Inside...
The Framework
Four Principles. One Inner Shift.
Drawing on decades of executive experience and formal research with 62 senior leaders (52 women, 10 men), Deb Smallwood unveils a four-part, research-based framework — Acknowledge, Awaken, Accept, Align — to help women reconnect with purpose and presence.
Through reflection and real-life stories, SelfPowerment guides women to:
- Quiet the noise and trust their inner voice
- Turn burnout into clarity and intention
- Make the inner shift from proving to alignment
Endorsements andReviews
“For any career woman who has wondered if there’s more to life than a bigger role, a better salary, or a seat in the boardroom, SelfPowerment helps her achieve clarity of purpose, alignment with her passion, with its unique roadmap, this engaging and enjoyable book will help women live and lead on their own terms, declaring, ‘Who I am is enough.”
— Janet Switzer, New York Times Bestselling Coauthor
The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
About Deb Smallwood
For more than four decades, Deb Smallwood held senior leadership roles — CEO, CIO, and Senior Partner — at organizations including Liberty Mutual, KPMG, and ICW Group, and founded Strategy Meets Action, a Strategic Advisory Firm. She knows what it means to deliver at the highest levels and still feel that something is quietly, persistently off.
That feeling became two years of research: 62 narrative interviews with senior leaders across industries and generations. What she found became the SelfPowerment framework — and this book.
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