Beyond Conversations S01E02: Exponential Leadership with John Hagel

John Hagel has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, McGraw Hill will be publishing in May John’s new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, LLC, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact. While at Deloitte, John was the founder and leader of the global Center for the Edge with the mission of identifying emerging business opportunities that should be on the agenda of CEO’s, but are not, and doing the research to persuade them to put them on their agenda. He has also worked with McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. He also served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups. He currently is on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He also serves on the faculty of Singularity University. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum. In addition to his new book, John is the author of 7 books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. He is widely published and quoted in major business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as general media like the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week. John has spoken at a wide variety of leading conferences including the Davos Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum and the TED conference. He also speaks at many leadership gatherings of major corporations and other institutions. His personal blog for 15 years was Edge Perspectives but now his more recent personal blog posts can be found on this website. He is active in social media and can be followed on Twitter and LinkedIn. John holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University and a JD and MBA from Harvard University. You can find and follow John Hagel on: https://www.johnhagel.com/ https://www.facebook.com/johnhagel https://twitter.com/jhagel https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhagel/ https://www.amazon.com/John-Hagel-III Follow Beyond Enterprizes on: https://www.beyondenterprizes.com/ https://twitter.com/BEnterprizes https://www.linkedin.com/company/beyond-enterprizes/ https://www.facebook.com/BeyondEnterprizes/ https://www.instagram.com/beyondenterprizes/