EP 78 Working with Influence with Amanda Nimon-Peters What score on a scale of one to five (five been highest) would you rate your level of influence in the workplace? This week I talk to Dr. Amanda Nimon-Peters, author of Working with Influence: Nine Principles of Persuasion to Accelerate Your Career. Dr. Amanda Nimon-Peters started university at the age of 16. She holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Psychology from the University of Adelaide, as well as a master’s degree and PhD in Behavioural Science from the University of Cambridge. She has extensive senior management experience in a broad range of industries and geographies: As a team leader at Procter & Gamble in Europe; a board-director for a housing charity in the UK; a successful start-up founder in Dubai; the dean of a business school in the Middle East; and the science team leader at a field camp on Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Today she is Professor of Leadership at Hult International Business School in Dubai. In 2022, Dr. Amanda published a book that is a new approach to influence for 21st century workplaces. It is called Working with Influence: Nine Principles of Persuasion to Accelerate Your Career and is available on Amazon and Audible. In this episode Amanda shares: * Her inspiration behind writing Working with Influence * The process for writing a book and what it’s like to work with a publisher (if you’re thinking of writing a book, you’ll want to hear this!) * Why we should care about the topic of Working with Influence * What to expect from reading the book * And, so much more. You do not want to miss this one!