Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life
Best-selling book that reveals what girls think and feel about their daily challenges.
✔ Strengthen your relationship
✔ Build her confidence
✔ Understand girls’ experiences
You are the caring Adult girls need.
In a world that is changing rapidly, it can be difficult to know how to foster communication and provide support for the girls that we teach, parent, mentor and coach. Between social media, friendships, dating culture, academic pressures, bullying, and fear of failure, girls are facing complex challenges. You need concrete strategies to help her succeed.
Helping you help girls
The award-winning book, Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life, offers relevant insights and concrete strategies that will help you:
Understand girls’ experiences
Gain insights into girls’ realities and understand the unique challenges they face.
Strengthen your relationship
Find proven strategies to better connect with girls and navigate challenges together.
Build her confidence
Equip girls with the skills to build supportive relationships and make good decisions.
Educators & Parents Rely on This book
“This is one of the most candid, inspiring, empowering, and generous books you will read this year.”
“I know I will cling to this book for years to come as my girls navigate into and through adolescence.”
“As a school counselor, Girls Without Limits prepares me for the stresses that my students bring to my office.”
About the author
Dr. Lisa Hinkelman is a nationally recognized researcher, speaker and author who is a foremost authority on educating & empowering girls and creating environments that foster girls’ confidence, self-esteem and successful decision-making. She has spent nearly 20 years researching and counseling girls and educating adults, first as a professor at The Ohio State University and currently as the Founder and CEO of the national non-profit Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX), an organization that delivers evidence- based programming, research, education & training focused on the critical issues impacting girls.
Lisa is the author of the groundbreaking research report, The Girls’ Index™, a national study with more than 17,000 girls and her best-selling book ’Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers and Life ’, (Corwin Press, 2021) was featured as an Amazon Hot New Release. Her work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, SXSW and Education World. She works with schools, corporations, associations and organizations across the country to address the social, emotional, educational, safety and leadership issues impacting girls.
Dr. Hinkelman earned her bachelor’s degree in Education and Psychology from Chatham College, her master’s and doctorate degrees in Counselor Education from The Ohio State University and completed the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program at Harvard Business School. She is a former collegiate softball and ice hockey player, a rescue dog lover and mom to young, wild and four-year old daughter, Irene.
Book Study
Discussion Guide
Download the companion resource for Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life. This multi-session discussion guide is easily implemented by school staff or with parent groups. The guided curriculum provides an opportunity for educators and caregivers to intentionally discuss the book’s concepts and supports participants in learning concrete strategies to use in day-to-day interactions and conversations with girls.
