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Reading Books Together Helps Teams Connect and Grow
Reading is one of the few activities that trains both focus and imagination, both disciplined thinking and creative freedom. It lowers stress, boosts cognitive performance, and improves perspective-taking with colleagues. For teams, it creates a shared vocabulary, aligns values, and supports smarter, more human collaboration.
Corporate Book Clubs are for teams that want to grow intellectually, emotionally, and relationally.
  • Culture Building
    Book clubs build culture by fostering dialogue around shared ideas and experiences, which helps promote company and leadership values.
  • Community & Connection
    It bridges silos by letting employees connect as people, not just functions, responsibilities and roles.
  • Diversity of Thought
    Exposure to varied authors and genres cultivates openness to new perspectives. Openness to the ideas of other readers helps promote diversity in teams.
  • Soft Skills Development
    Book discussions naturally train empathy, teamwork, adaptability, and emotional intelligence through dialogue and reflection.
  • Leadership Development
    Reading about leaders’ choices and dilemmas gives employees a low-risk arena to practice judgment, ethics, vision, and decision-making.
  • Engagement & Retention
    A Corporate Book Club is a benefit, just like gym membership, but an intellectual gym. It contributes to the quality of life and promotes engagement.
Reading is NOT just about pleasure...
  • It reduces stress more than any other activity (walking, music, or even sleep)
  • It activates the parasympathetic nervous system, trains attention and develops emotional regulation
  • It helps build new neuron pathways and prevent cognitive overload
  • Discussing books in a group helps building soft skills and psychological intelligence
  • For teams, its one of the best and most natural way of building and changing Company Culture.
  • For a team leader, it is an effortless possibility to build deep human connection, achieve engagement and develop loyalty among team members.
Companies can choose between two formats depending on how involved you want the internal team to be in running the book club. Both options include a carefully designed structure, curated reading, and a clear methodology for meaningful discussion.
How It Works

We Build, We Run

In this format, we design and manage the entire experience.

We select the books, create the discussion framework, and facilitate the sessions. Employees simply join the conversations and engage with the ideas. Each meeting is guided by a professional facilitator who helps the group explore themes from the book and connect them to topics of interest or company values.

What this includes:
  • Curated book selection
  • Professionally facilitated discussions
  • Structured questions and reflection prompts
  • Session moderation and group engagement
This option works best for organizations that want a high-quality intellectual experience without requiring internal coordination.
We Build, You Run
In this format, we design the entire book club and train your employees to facilitate and run it independently.

We do the initial setup, design the club, train 2x moderators from company employees, help them select the books, mentor them through the first few discussions and provide the discussion methodology.

What this includes:
  • Curated book selection
  • A clear discussion framework and session structure
  • Training and mentoring for internal facilitators
  • Facilitation guides and discussion prompts
This option works best for organizations that want to build a long-term reading culture and develop employees who can confidently lead thoughtful discussions within the team.
Example of a Book Club
Goals, values, culture: each Book Club is uniquely designed for you
Participants receive 1 book to read each month
Readers are supported by weekly prompts for deeper reading
End of month the Book Club participants meet to discuss the book
PRICING DEPENDS ON THE CHOSEN FORMAL, NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND TYPE OF MODERATORS
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A QUOTE
The Book Society Founder Tamara Markova, PhD
Corporate Strategist, Lecturer, Bibliotherapist, Philosophical Counseling
  • PhD in Organizational Learning & Behavior (The Netherlands)
  • MBA in Strategy & Company Culture (Sweden)
  • Ex-lecturer at University of Amsterdam (Course: Leadership and Company Culture)
  • Ex-program director at Vrije University (Executive Education Program: Strategy as Culture)
  • Bibliotherapist (certified book therapist), existential psychologist and philosophical counselor
  • Career in corporate: responsible for corporate strategy, M&A and BoD member
  • More information on my professional website:
    www.the-psychologist.eu
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