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Change Your Relationship with Feedback

You already know why feedback is important. 

Learn how to actually share it. 

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Distinguished Favorite, Leadership

2026 NYC Big Book Award

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1st place: Business Communication

The BookFest Awards 2026

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1st place: Leadership & Management

The BookFest Awards 2026

Most managers are never taught how to give great feedback.

Until now.

You know feedback matters. Now learn exactly how to deliver it.

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Fearless Feedback

Fearless Feedback is the practical, no-nonsense guide managers have been waiting for. This is not a book on why feedback is important—you already know it is. This is a book laser-focused on the how: how to have meaningful feedback conversations while preserving the relationships you've worked hard to build.

Built on two decades of real management experience, every framework, scenario, and piece of sample language in these pages has been lived, refined, and proven before it ever made it onto the page. You'll finish a chapter and walk into your next conversation with genuine confidence.

You'll learn how to handle the nuances no one else teaches:

● Navigating reactions to feedback

● Dealing with secondhand feedback

● Approaching feedback for remote employees

● Addressing when feedback hasn't been implemented

● Knowing when it may be time to let someone go

● Balancing when personal impacts professional

●  And more

Less anxiety. More confidence. Stronger teams. This is the book you'll keep coming back to.

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What Readers are Saying

  • “The frameworks and tools provided in Fearless Feedback make it not only worth a read, but worth a spot on the shelf next to your desk, ready to reference and revisit whenever you need some inspiration.”

    —Jon Vick, Senior Product Line Sales Manager

  • “This is the book I wish every manager had access to from day one.”

    —Jami Zakem, Executive Coach & Advisor

  • “This book is SO psychologically safe. This is the future of high-performing organizations—having standards, with a very human touch. Millennial approved.”

    —Christie Hoffman, Founder of Corporate Christie

  • “Fearless Feedback removes the anxiety and guesswork from hard conversations and offers practical tools you can use right away to build confidence.”

    —Bonnie Davis, Author of Still Human: How to Build Organizations Where Leaders and Teams Thrive with AI

  • “If you want to stop overthinking tough conversations and start supporting your team with clear, human feedback, read this.”

    —Rebecca Verhoeff, Leader, Project & Program Management

  • “The relatable scenarios and personal stories offer an easy-to-follow 'how-to' that aligns perfectly with the emotional intelligence needed to support and inspire all generations, especially our youngest: Gen Z and Gen Alpha.”

    —Regina Lynch, Membership, Sales & Operations Leader 

  • “What feels different about this book is that it is grounded in real-life stories and experiences.”

    —Leah Stallone, Founder of The Career Edit

  • “Katie gives practical models and scripts for how each leader can execute specific and timely feedback and shows the importance of how that impacts your team and also grows you as a leader.”

    —Nick Fiedler, VP, Customer Success

An Award-Winning Guide for Managers

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Recognized for excellence by independent book judges.

Distinguished Favorite

2026 NYC Big Book Award

Leadership Category

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1st Place

2026 The BookFest Awards

Business Communication Category

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1st Place

2026 The BookFest Awards

Leadership & Management Category

Hear It Before Your Read It

Listen to Katie talk feedback.

The book is practical. So am I. Press play and hear how I break down saying what needs to be said without losing the relationship.

TOP VOICE PODCAST

How to Give Hard Feedback Without Losing the Relationship

  • Learn why it’s a disservice to focus first on how to deliver your message.

  • Hear why all feedback is not a gift.

  • Gain a powerful framework for receiving feedback.

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THE COURAGE OF A LEADER PODCAST

How a strong headline makes hard feedback easier to start, and what to do when it triggers a reaction.

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Giving Feedback Without Breaking Trust

STEPSERO PODCAST

How to Structure a Feedback Conversation

Why feedback is like food in someone’s teeth, and what a good opening sounds like.

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Meet the Author

Katie O’Brien Ceccarini is the Founder of Endurance Management Coaching, a Certified Leadership & Executive Coach, and Award-Winning Author of Fearless Feedback: Everything Managers Have Never Been Taught About Feedback.

At the age of 22, she began managing her first team.  Nobody handed her a management handbook, she figured it out the hard way.  Botched conversations, mistakes, and the kind of stretched-thin moments every manager knows too well.

That experience is exactly why she wrote this book. Not to give you theory, but to give you what actually works and how to do it.

Over the past 20 years, she’s managed, trained, and developed thousands of people.  From scaling Customer Success at Yelp to leading Learning & Development at Opendoor to launching her own business.  She’s been there, done that.

Now she works with organizations like eBay, Databricks, Munchkin, Vital Farms, PAN Communications, and more to develop their managers and leaders.

She’s been teaching her Fearless Feedback Mastery course on Maven since 2022, empowering managers and earning a 4.8 out of 5 course rating.

Everything in these pages comes from real teams, real conversations, and real results.

The book is one way to work with Katie. She also runs training workshops, works 1:1 with managers and leaders, and more. See how she works with individuals and organizations.

Take learning and career growth to the next level by moving these concepts from words on a page to hands-on, real practice.

Individuals - Katie leads her 3-part Fearless Feedback Mastery course on Maven. You can register below for the next available cohort.

Teams - add Fearless Feedback into your manager development programming. Click below for a free book club resource, and see how your company can score a free Q&A with Katie.

Looking for coaching, training programs, or a custom training solution? See everything I offer with Endurance Management Coaching.

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