Publications

Owning Your IT:
Actionable Tools to Improve Your Interpersonal Communication, 2024

Owning Your IT is your guide to wrenching control away from the habits holding you back. We all have “ITs”—those behaviorial patterns that run the show. This book helps you recognize them, understand where they come from, and replace reaction with intention through actionable, tools-based skills.

Cover of authors book Owning Your IT: Actionable tools to improve your interpersonal communication. By Margot Halstead

“Margot doesn’t just tell us what we should do; she shows us how to do it… transforming unconscious habits into intentional behaviors.” — Marshall Goldsmith

Your Toolbox Cover Image - companion workbook to Owning Your IT

Currently available only with enrollment in any Owning Your IT class.

A second edition, mirroring the book and designed for independent readers, is coming in 2026.

Your Toolbox

Owning Your IT: Tools-Based Workbook, 2025

The Owning Your IT workbook is the hands-on companion used exclusively in the Owning Your IT class experience. Designed to turn insight into action, it guides participants through reflection, skills application, and real-world communications practice. Each section includes visual bookmarks—simple, memorable cues that help participants recall and apply their tools long after the class ends.

“Margot has a rare gift for pinpointing the heart of any challenge and offering practical, actionable tools to solve it. She adapts her communication style to every audience, leaving people not just informed—but empowered and inspired..” — Sydney

Publications

Owning Your IT: Actionable Tools to Improve Your Interpersonal Communication, 2024

Your Toolbox

Owning Your IT: Tools-Based Workbook, 2025

Owning Your IT:
Actionable Tools to Improve Your Interpersonal Communication, 2024