Read something that refuses to behave.
Books that challenge what we've accepted, question what we've normalized and make comfortable thinking a little less comfortable
Just Released Fall 2026
Read It. Question It. Argue With It.
Just Don't Accept It Because Someone Said You Should.
Ideas Should Make You Uncomfortable Occasionally.
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Ideas don't create change because we agree with them. They create change when they make it impossible to keep seeing the world the same way.
If a book only confirms what you already believe,
what exactly did it accomplish?
Dr. Lauran Star writes about the things organizations and society have become remarkably good at avoiding: culture, power, accountability, equity, leadership, human behavior, and the systems quietly teaching us what to accept.
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These aren't books designed to give you seven easy steps and a worksheet.
They're designed to make you stop.
Question.
Argue.
Rethink.
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And perhaps notice something you can no longer unsee.
Welcome to the uncomfortable part of the conversation.
Authorship With a Bold Point of View
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Dr. Lauran Star writes for one reason: to make important ideas impossible to ignore.
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Her work is evidence-based, grounded in research, psychology, and real-world experience—but it never reads like a textbook. She writes as if she is sitting across from you, having the conversation most people are avoiding.
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No unnecessary jargon. No intellectual theater. No fluff for the sake of filling pages.
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Just research, stories, uncomfortable questions, and ideas that connect what the evidence tells us with what we are actually experiencing.
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Because the point of a book isn’t to sound smart. It’s to make the reader think.
2026-2027 Featured Books
SEE DICK THROW A HISSY FIT
The Rise and Predictable Fall of U.S. Culture
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How did behavior we once considered unacceptable become something we barely notice anymore?
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See Dick Throw a Hissy Fit examines what happens when outrage becomes currency, grievance becomes identity, accountability becomes optional, and institutions slowly adapt to behavior they once would have rejected. But this isn't really a book about Dick. Dick is a system.
Through psychology, culture, behavioral science, history, and a healthy dose of irreverence, Dr. Star examines how repeated behaviors move from shocking to tolerated to defended—and eventually become part of the cultural landscape.
This Book Explores
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The psychology of normalization
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The rise of grievance and outrage culture
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How institutions adapt to dysfunction
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Why accountability disappears
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The relationship between leadership and societal culture
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Why good people participate in systems they privately question
THE IDEA BEHIND THE BOOK
Common describes what exists. Normal permits it to continue. There is a difference, and that difference may explain far more about where we are than we'd like to admit.
EVIDENCE-BASED INCLUSION
It's Time to Focus on the Right Needle
What if we've been measuring the wrong things?
Evidence-Based Inclusion challenges conventional approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion by asking organizations to move beyond activity and intention—and examine actual outcomes.
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Dr. Star explores how evidence, organizational psychology, behavioral science, and measurable systems can create workplaces where opportunity and performance are built into the architecture rather than added as an initiative.
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This Book Challenges Leaders To Examine
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What organizations actually measure
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The difference between activity and impact
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How systems influence access and opportunity
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How evidence can strengthen inclusion strategies
THE BIGGER QUESTION
Are we trying to look like we're creating change—or are we willing to measure whether anything actually changed?
Your Power Pivot: Shifting the Paradigm of Work/Life Empowerment Success shouldn't require choosing between ambition and a life.
Your Power Pivot is a practical guide for women ready to lead, advance, and define success on their own terms. Through candid insight, real-world strategies, and the voices of women who've navigated the same challenges, Dr. Star explores leadership, communication, networking, career advancement, and creating greater harmony between work and life.
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This isn't about having it all. It's about owning the power to decide what “all” means to you.
Where the Next Book Begins
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Dr. Lauran Star doesn't sit down and ask, “What should I write about next?”
Usually, the next book starts because something won't leave her alone. A pattern she keeps seeing. A question nobody seems to be asking. A behavior we've somehow decided is normal. A conversation in a boardroom, a headline, a piece of research, or a moment when she catches herself thinking, “Wait. Why are we doing this?”
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That's where the writing begins.
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Release 2027
Cycle-Breakers Press
Release 2028
Cycle-Breakers Press
Release 2028
Cycle-Breakers Press
Don't Just Read the Idea. Bring It Into the Room.
The books are where the questions begin. ​Dr. Star brings those ideas to life through provocative keynotes, executive conversations, fireside chats, and leadership intensives, experiences.
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For conferences, associations, executive teams, universities, and organizations ready for a conversation their audience will actually remember.
Bring Dr. Star to Your Stage
Give your audience more than another keynote.
Dr. Lauran Star delivers bold, provocative conversations that challenge assumptions, expose what we’ve learned to accept, and leave audiences seeing leadership and culture differently.
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No recycled talking points. No corporate fluff. Just ideas that stick—and conversations that continue long after the stage goes dark.​​​
BULK & EVENT BOOK ORDERS
Give Them Something They'll Actually Take Home.
Books can be incorporated into keynote engagements, conferences, leadership meetings, executive retreats, and organizational events.
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Bulk purchases and customized event opportunities are available, including sponsored book distributions and custom bookplates for qualifying orders.
​Because the conference tote bag probably has enough stress balls.
KEEP READING. KEEP QUESTIONING.
The Books May End.
The Conversation Doesn't.
Continue exploring the research, frameworks, conversations, and ideas challenging what has become normal.
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