Quiet Power: Negotiating Careers, Change, and Choice

By Gitanjali Ponnappa and Ponnappa

What if negotiating your career were not about becoming louder, tougher, or more like someone else?

Quiet Power is a practical and personal guide to navigating the moments that shape a career: asking for recognition, responding to change, making difficult decisions, handling self-doubt, building trusted relationships, and standing up for what matters.

Drawing on my international leadership career and the candid stories of professionals across generations, cultures, and industries, I explore how identity, values, personality, power, and workplace systems influence the way women negotiate.

These stories reveal that negotiation does not happen only around a formal table. It happens when you accept a role, question a decision, ask for support, recover from a setback, or decide that it is time to leave.

Each chapter combines real experiences with practical tools to help you:

Recognize what is shaping a negotiationPrepare your alternatives and boundariesAdapt without losing yourselfBuild relationships that strengthen your positionNegotiate change, visibility, and opportunityUse reflection and technology more thoughtfully

This is not a book about winning every conversation. It is about understanding your own power, making more deliberate choices, and finding a way to negotiate that feels like yours.

Because standing up for yourself matters. And there comes a point when you can use that strength to stand up for others, too.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJXDT6NV
• ISBN13: 9783952667613
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: NegotiateHer GmbH
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"