The Future of the Workplace

Howard Behar is a well-known business leader, author, and speaker who has influenced the lives of many men and women. During his time as president of Starbucks International, the company grew from 28 to 15,000 locations. His latest book is The Magic Cup: A Business Parable About a Leader, a Team, and the Power of Putting People and Values First.

Gwen Kinsey is a Transformation Leader who learned strategic change management through self-directed experience. She is a former President and General Manager from the television industry who shares what she learned about leading organizational change to help transformational leaders create what’s next.

John Bell is the author of Do Less Better, a Transformational Leader, Corporate Director, and Former CEO at Jacobs Suchard. You can learn more about John on his blog In the CEO Afterlife where he reflects on leadership, branding, and life. John’s latest book is a fictional novel called The Circumstantial Enemy.

Norman Bodek’s mission is to teach managers how to teach their employees how to be successful in life and also to teach teachers how to teach their students how to be successful in life. Norman played a prime role in introducing Lean to the West. He is a cocreator of the Shingo Prize and is a Shingo Prize winner. He has written hundreds of articles; and when he owned Productivity Press, he published 100 Japanese management books in English, over 250 published books on productivity and quality, and has written 7 books including his How to Do Kaizen, The Harada Method, and A Miraculous Life.

Lance Secretan is a former Fortune 100 company CEO and is a pioneering philosopher whose bestselling books, inspirational talks, and life-changing retreats have touched the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He is the author of 22 books about leadership, inspiration, corporate culture, and entrepreneurship. In his latest book, The Bellwether Effect: Stop Following. Start Inspiring!, he proposes a theory that explains how and why leaders are attracted to, and seduced by, trendy ideas, and the process by which these ideas then become mainstream—and how we can change it.

Sarah Rozenthuler is an expert on having big conversations and wrote a book about it. She is the author of Life-Changing Conversations and a psychologist, leadership coach, and the founder of Bridgework Consulting Ltd. In her book, she talks about the seven strategies that are needed to help people talk about what matters most and shares some of those ideas here.

Jeff Dalton is a Process Innovator, Chief Evangelist at AgileCxO, author, and CEO at Broadsword Solutions. Jeff’s latest book is Great Big Agile: An OS for Agile Leaders.

Alan is a transformation catalyst, leadership coach, author of seven books, speaker, and the Director of the Center for Transformational Presence. His programs help people develop and expand their capacities for intuitive thinking, navigating complexity, cutting to the essence of situations and circumstances and begin making shifts immediately, partnering with potential, and making breakthrough and transformation an everyday part of your work. Transformational Presence provides the foundational skills and capacities needed for dynamic and effective leadership in today's rapidly changing world.

Jim Haudan is the Chairman of the Board and Cofounder at Root Inc. He is the author of The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities. His latest book, coauthored with Root Inc. CEO, Rich Berens, is What Are Your Blind Spots: Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back. Jim is a frequent speaker on leadership alignment, strategy execution, employee engagement, business transformation, organizational change management, and accelerated learning; Jim has contributed to numerous industry publications.

Perry Marshall is one of the most sought-after consultants in the world. He is the author of the world’s most popular books on advertising, marketing, and sales including Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, 80/20 Sales and Marketing, and many other books and articles. However, Perry’s expertise goes well beyond sales and marketing and spans engineering, art, and psychology. He founded the $5 million Evolution 2.0 Prize to solve one of the leading mysteries in science. He is also the author of Evolution 2.0.

Michael Neill is an internationally renowned transformative coach and the best-selling author of six books including The Inside-Out Revolution, The Space Within, and Creating the Impossible. His weekly radio show, Living from the Inside Out, has been a listener favorite on Hay House Radio for over a decade, and his TEDx talk, Why Aren’t We Awesomer?, has been viewed by over 250,000 people around the world.

Sesil Pir is a recognized Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and HR Expert with two decades of field experience serving Fortune 100 companies globally. She is currently serving as the founder and consulting lead of Sesil Pir Consulting, focused on building more effective organizations, leaders, and teams.

David Marquet is an author, a top-ranked keynote speaker, and the President of the Intent-Based Leadership Institute. His bestselling book Turn the Ship Around! is regarded as the best how-to book on driving flawless execution and for creating leaders at every level. After being assigned to command a nuclear-powered submarine, then ranked last in retention and operational standing, he “turned his ship around” by treating the crew as leaders, not followers, and giving control, not taking control.

Dr. John Toussaint is the Executive Chairman of Catalysis Inc. and is one of the foremost figures in the adoption of lean principles in healthcare. John has written three books, all of which have received the prestigious Shingo Research and Publication Award. His books include On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare, and Management on the Mend: The Executive Guide to System Transformation.

Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir is the Managing Director at Festa, a not-for-profit center focusing on a broad-based peer-to-peer and public-private partnerships and excellence in social responsibility, and is Chair of the Technology Development Fund for Innovation in Iceland. Hrund is an experienced entrepreneur, thought leader, and speaker in creative and critical thinking in education, global trends, and the workplace of the 21st century.

Robert Fuchs is a Culture Architect and creative design leader with a background in systemic psychotherapy. He leads the research of the HappinessGroup.eu on highly effective teams and corporate culture transformation. The HappinessGroup.eu develops meta-frameworks, methods, and tools for decision-making and problem-solving by integrating the latest insights from consciousness science and E8-Mathematics (Mathematics of Harmony) with philosophical schools of thought.

Sandra Krot is a Human Dimension Consultant at Insight Principles and a coauthor of Invisible Power: Insight Principles at Work. Sandra works with individuals as well as working groups and leadership teams. Her work is based on fundamental principles about how the human mind and human thought work. An understanding of these principles provides people with a glimpse into their potential for creative thought, well-being, and relationship effectiveness.

Andrew Bennett is a leadership consultant and executive coach partnering with leaders building cultures where people can thrive. Andrew began his career as Ross Perot’s personal assistant. For almost 50 years, Andrew has been a magician and is a member of London’s Magic Circle, the highest honor in magic. Founder of EDS and former US Presidential Candidate Ross Perot encouraged Andrew to use magic in his business presentations. Magic is the art of transformation, and Andrew uses it to teach people how to rethink possibilities and obstacles, opening the door to new ways of thinking and acting.

Dicken Bettinger is the founder of Three Principles Mentoring , which exists to guide individuals, groups, and organizations in deepening their understanding of the Three Principles. He spent 16 years of his career developing and leading corporate leadership training, team development, and executive coaching. He is the coauthor of Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-Being.

Dianne Collins is a media personality, an award-winning author, and the creator of QuantumThink. In her book, Do You QuantumThink?, she teaches a groundbreaking methodology—21 specific, advanced principles that blend scientific insight and universal knowledge into practical modern wisdom—to create real solutions for our modern lives.

Brian is the Founder of Authentik and StudioPress and a Partner at Rainmaker Digital. Brian is a champion of community, and he loves minimalist design and believes in white space. He is a well-known and influential leader and minimalist designer in the WordPress community and marketplace.

Tom Thomison is a Founding Member and Partner at encode.org llc and Cofounder at HolacracyOne. Tom is an entrepreneur and a recognized leader in self-organization practices and methods. In 2007, he cofounded HolacracyOne, LLC to further develop and mature Holacracy, now a gold standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies.

Bob is a leader in Agile Product Development, Process Improvement, Organizational Fitness, Scrum Training, and Lean Management at Agile Infusion LLC. Bob specializes in training, consulting, and coaching in the practice of successfully using agile project management techniques to transform organizations and improve the performance of their software development project teams. He is a longtime Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Scrum Alliance. He began his practice as a result of leading the first large agile transition at Primavera Systems in 2002.

Steph Holloway is the Founder of Elemental Potential and a Body Language and Communication Expert. She is also the Creator of Compassionate Assertiveness in Action. Steph is on a journey to make compassionate assertiveness and body language a native language for the masses. She uses a unique communication approach as a catalyst for transformation in personal or corporate life. She holds a total commitment to uncovering the secrets to exceptional communication and believes it is her calling in life.

Nick is the creator of Founders Live with business achievements in social media, digital payments, and e-commerce. Besides creating the global entrepreneur network Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to many startups. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds and helped start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATMs. As a sought-after advisor, entrepreneurial speaker, and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path.

Aviv Shahar is the Founder of Aviv Consulting and helps leaders create new futures by unleashing strategic innovation. He is also the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.

Jon Mertz is the CEO of Activate World, a modern think tank that explores CEO and business leader activism through a podcast and articles while bringing together the best of business with the best of society. Jon is one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business and highlighted as a Leader to Watch by the American Management Association. He also is the author of Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders.

Andy Yen is the Founder and CEO of Proton Technologies AG. The Swiss-based Proton Technologies is building a suite of security software solutions including ProtonMail, the world's largest secure email, and ProtonVPN, a security-focused VPN service that enables Internet access without surveillance. Andy was a researcher at CERN from 2009 to 2015, where ProtonMail's founding team met. He has a PhD in Physics from Harvard and a degree in Economics from Caltech. He is a longtime advocate of privacy rights and has spoken at TED, SXSW, and the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference about online privacy issues.

Sue Elliott is the CEO and Founder at Easier Way, Inc. Through her work with leaders, as well as her writing and media appearances, Sue has empowered and uplifted millions of people. She has been immersed in the personal transformation field for 25 plus years, and for more than a decade, she has been offering a unique blend of transformational coaching, conscious business mentoring, and energy healing. Sue is currently cofounding a very different kind of college—focused on life skills, self-awareness, and collaboration—to help people thrive in a future filled with rapid change.

Marcel Schwantes is the founder of Leadership from the Core and a leading expert in helping companies develop exceptional servant leadership cultures. He is also an entrepreneur, executive coach, keynote speaker, and syndicated columnist for Inc. magazine.

The book was inadvertently published with an incorrect title for all chapters and it has been updated.