Published
by Becky Hirst with Dr Wendy Sarkissian
For the Love of Community Engagement
Insights from a personal expedition to inspire better public participation
A warm, personal and practical expedition through community engagement, told from Becky's perspective as a practitioner who has spent a lifetime making the unsaid sayable. Readable, grounded and full of real-world insight for anyone trying to involve people more genuinely in decisions that affect them. Available in hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook from your favourite bookstore.
Coming soon
by Karen Cocks
Start with Yes
The customer experience practice of beginning with what is possible.
A practical leadership book about the architecture of trust. Karen draws on decades running customer experience at scale to argue that the best systems, teams and relationships start with yes: clarity first, context always, and the humility to redesign the thing that is getting in the way.
Coming early 2027
by Becky Hirst
Have Your Say
A Personal Reckoning with a System That Never Learned to Listen
Part memoir, part field guide, Have Your Say is Becky's account of a lifetime spent making the unsaid sayable inside rooms that were not built to hear it. From community engagement to late-diagnosed neurodivergence, the book traces what happens when a system keeps transferring its complexity onto the person it should have served and how to push back with credibility, warmth and evidence.
