BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW VIA AMAZON.COM BY KATE VAN NAME
A field guide for leading when the map stops matching the shore.
The old maps were beautiful, and for a long time they worked. Ladders to climb. Pipelines to move through. Paths with tidy milestones and a finish line somewhere off in the distance. They assumed a shore that would not shift. The shore has shifted.
Here is the hopeful news buried inside that sentence. If you have been feeling out of phase, pushing when something in you keeps asking for pause, going quiet while the room expects momentum, adding one more thing to a load already carrying itself, the trouble is not you. It is rhythmic misalignment. You are leading against the tide you are actually in, using a map drawn for a shore that has moved. The map failed. You did not.
The Kinetic Tide offers a different instrument: the water. Twelve movements across three parts, naming the rhythms every leader already lives through. The Primary Tides — Stillwater, the Pull, Kinetic Motion, Break and Return — are the ones you recognize before you have words for them. The Transitional Currents — the Swell, the Friction, the Drift, the Turn — are the passages most leadership books quietly skip. The Inner Compass Guides — the Longing, the Tempo, the Trust, the Memory — are the deeper weather running beneath it all.
A tide you can name is one you can prepare for, ask help with, and stop apologizing for being inside.
Best for anyone leading anything: a company, a team, a household, a life still very much in progress.
A field guide for the conversations that matter most.
This book maps the space before the words arrive, and what has changed inside it now that we are no longer alone there. Its central idea is the Listening Layer, the space between what you mean and what you finally share, where every message is shaped before anyone sees it. For all of human history that space was a private chamber. Now, for the first time, a machine sits inside it, drafting alongside us in the moment of composition.
The book's stance is neither alarm nor hype. AI can widen the gap between what you feel and what you send or it can quietly sand the life out of your voice. Tools shape, humans steer, and the habits we form in this narrow window are the ones a generation will live with.
Along the way, twelve communication archetypes across three Currents give you mirrors, not labels, for who you become in conversation at your best and under strain.
Best for anyone who has felt a conversation shift and wanted to read the current, at work, at the kitchen table, or in the text thread with someone they love.
A field guide for the age of Wellth.
The argument lives in one extra letter. Wealth once meant six things at once: happiness, the welfare of the body, the wealth of the soul, the commonwealth, an abundance of any good thing, and material riches. By the time Adam Smith wrote in 1776, the word had been thinned to the one meaning a civilization could count, and the other five quietly went obsolete.
Wellth, with two L's, puts them back. The book reads the present as the arrival of a long wave, the sixth in a series economists have tracked for a century, carried this time not by steam or steel or computing but by health in the fullest sense of the word. Eight Practices name the conditions a whole life is made of: Vigor, Quiet, Meaning, Curiosity, Kinship, Craft, Provision, Place.
Around a curved table, real thinkers argue it out across the chapters, from Hippocrates and Marcus Aurelius to Mary Oliver and bell hooks, and eight composite lives, drawn from three decades of consulting, walk the Practices through kitchens and plant floors and meeting houses gone quiet. It ends in your chair. No expert, agency, or algorithm can see your whole life, because the whole is only visible from where you sit, and the Wellth Log at the back, in two parts, one for your own life and one for the place you live, gives you the mirror to start looking.
Best for nearly anyone, and especially the person who has everything they were told to want and cannot say what a Tuesday is for.
Coming Soon to Amazon.com by Kate Van Name
The Sacred Tide
A field guide for leading with faith, conscience, and conviction
This book says the quiet part out loud. The Sacred Tide is the coming back, to the water that was always underneath. Every rhythm of leading and living well rests on something older than us, and this book names it: we belong to something that was moving long before we got here and will keep moving long after.
Twelve tides in three movements, the Primary Tides, the Transitional Currents, and the Inner Compass Guides, each one held by a story from Scripture where water does the real work. Some you will know by heart: Noah and his flood, Jonah and his fish, the sea splitting open so a frightened people could cross. Some you may never have met: a servant squinting at a cloud the size of a hand, a man waiting thirty-eight years beside a pool, a stubborn old shepherd who keeps digging his wells again rather than fight for them. The faith on the page is quiet, the kind that keeps to itself and turns out to have been paying attention the whole time, and the water makes room for whoever comes.
If you have a faith, bring it. If you have none, bring that. Each tide holds a story, a reflection, a practice, a prayer, and a page for your own words.
The Sacred Tide stands on its own two feet. It also has a companion, The Kinetic Tide, where these same twelve rhythms were first named as tides, with the steadiness underneath left unspoken on purpose. The two books read like siblings raised in the same house, though you don't need one to read the other.
Best for anyone drawn to the water, whether they carry a faith or only the sense that something older and kinder has been moving underneath their life all along.
Coming Fall 2026
