Build the practical skills to live with purpose and lead with integrity

In How to Be a Good Human: Building the Skills to Live Fully, Lead Honestly, and Show Up for What Matters, Amber Cabral delivers a practical guide to developing the interpersonal and self-awareness skills that define meaningful living and authentic leadership. Built on her Human(ing) Well Resilience Framework—organized around four pillars: health, wealth, relationships, and growth—the book provides readers with actionable approaches to showing up more intentionally in their personal and professional lives every day.

How to Be a Good Human explores the specific habits, mindsets, and communication practices that allow individuals to engage more honestly with themselves and others. Cabral addresses the real challenges people face when trying to align their values with their actions, offering concrete techniques for building self-awareness, developing resilience, cultivating empathy, and navigating interpersonal dynamics with clarity and confidence.

Readers will also find:

• Strategies for developing self-awareness rooted in embodiment that translates directly into stronger relationships and more effective personal and professional leadership
• Practical tools for navigating interpersonal challenges—including reciprocity, repair, asking for help, and saying no—with honesty, empathy, and a commitment to mutual understanding
• Approaches to aligning daily actions with core values so that integrity becomes a consistent practice rather than an aspiration
• Techniques for building resilience, capacity, and accountability habits that foster trust and strengthen connections across personal and workplace settings
• Guidance on showing up authentically in high-stakes moments where leadership, empathy, and honest communication matter most
• Ideal for professionals, emerging and established leaders, and anyone seeking to strengthen their interpersonal skills, How to Be a Good Human offers a grounded, actionable path toward living with greater intention, leading with honesty, and making meaningful contributions in every area of life.

AMBER CABRAL is a culture strategist, leadership keynote speaker, and three-time Wiley author. She is the founder and CEO of Human(ing) Well Co., a human skills development consultancy that helps leaders fix the people problems that cost companies time, money, and their best talent. She has trained 225,000+ leaders at more than 100 organizations across more than a dozen industries. Her other books are Allies and Advocates and Say More About That.