Move Like A Queen

There is a question that follows ambitious professionals into boardrooms, hospital corridors, late-night drives, and the quiet moments between accomplishments. It sounds different each time — Is this all there is? What if I'm on the wrong path? Am I too late to change? — but it is always asking the same thing: Am I playing the game I was actually built for?

Move Like a Queen: Know Yourself. Own the Board. Change the Game. is Dr. Judith Getugi-Kerini's answer to that question — and to the thirteen others that accompany it.

Structured around the chess metaphor of the queen — the most powerful piece on the board not because she is the strongest in any single direction, but because she combines the movement of every other piece — this book argues that the most successful professionals are not specialists. They are multi-dimensional players who have learned to know themselves deeply, move strategically, and show up fully wherever the board demands.

Across five parts and fourteen chapters, Dr. Judith takes readers from the inside out: from understanding who they really are beyond their job title, to charting a direction that reflects genuine values, to making bold moves with the right timing, to building lives that sustain their ambitions without consuming them, and finally to leading and leaving an impact that outlasts them.

Drawing on the realities of building a career in East Africa and internationally — and grounded in real stories from healthcare, entrepreneurship, and executive leadership — Move Like a Queen is a self-help book that respects its reader's intelligence. No empty affirmations. No borrowed Western frameworks applied without context. Just fourteen honest questions, fourteen honest answers, and practical tools to act on each one.

For anyone who has ever felt like a single chess piece on a board far bigger than they imagined: your next move is the one that counts.