Designing for Diversity at the Nautilus Book Awards 2026

We are delighted to share that Designing for Diversity: Developing Inclusive and Equitable Talent Management Processes, written by our co-founder and senior Partner Professor Binna Kandola OBE, has been named as a Silver Winner at the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards!

Designing for Diversity was awarded Silver in the Business & Leadership category at the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards, which follows on from the book’s Gold Medal in the Human Resources/Training category at the 2026 Axiom Book Awards and the book’s win in the leadership category at the Goody Business Book Awards earlier in the year.

About the Nautilus Book Awards

Since 2000, the Nautilus Book Awards have celebrated and honoured books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth.

Since then, the book awards programme has continued to grow within the author and publishing communities around the world as it recognises, honours, celebrates and promotes books that inspire and connect our lives as individuals, families, communities, and global citizens.

About Designing for Diversity

What measures do you use to spot talent and assess employee performance? How do you decide who gets promoted? Are these methods fair and inclusive?

Talent management is a cornerstone of modern organisational strategy but it has consistently fallen short in achieving meaningful diversity.

Designing for Diversity challenges the deeply rooted assumptions that have shaped traditional talent management systems and critiques the philosophies that often reinforce the status quo. This book then offers actionable strategies to create systems and processes that genuinely identify and nurture individuals with leadership potential.

While many DEI efforts aim to signal progress, they can inadvertently sustain inertia. This book empowers organisations to move beyond surface-level solutions and implement practices that drive real, measurable change.

It explores each element of talent management from performance management systems and talent identification methods, through to talent development and promotion processes.

This book also examines the limitations of target setting and the benefits of both formal and informal mentoring. The results is a new paradigm for identifying leaders, fostering diversity, and enhancing competition for senior roles.

Whether you’re a business leader, HR professional or advocate for equity in the workplace, Designing for Diversity is your essential guide to creating a future where talent management and diversity thrive together.