Powerful New Questions and Insights from Pioneering Leaders
The Future of the Workplace will help you discover new pathways to rise above today’s unprecedented challenges.
Moreover, you’ll realize that there’s enormous power in convening new conversations where we ask each other powerful questions and welcome all points of view.
The future is already here, and it’s unexpectedly and suddenly different than we’d planned or imagined—even just yesterday.
— Bill Fox, Founder, Forward Thinking Workplaces
From the author.
Leading new conversations that build the workplace of the future — today.
In 2016, I started a new conversation with global leaders, challenging them with questions they’d never been asked before.
My questions were not the typical questions you’d find in a business setting. I challenged leaders to share their best insights and wisdom to create a much better workplace and world. To date, over 75 pioneering business and thought leaders have enthusiastically embraced the questions and mission.
“One of the ways of thinking about leadership is thinking about convening conversations that might not happen otherwise. The consequences will ripple out beyond what you will ever know.” — Patricia Shaw, Fellow, Schumacher College
The Future of the Workplace contains a collection of 30 out of 75 of those conversations. Every conversation deserved to be in this book. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to include them all.
I wrote this book for anyone who feels and believes that we can and must create workplaces where every voice matters, everyone thrives and finds meaning, and change and innovation happen naturally.
To your forward thinking life & success!
Bill Fox
Founder, Forward Thinking Workplaces
Learn more about me at billfox.co. Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Where to buy.
The Future of the Workplace is available from major and independent book sellers.
Reviews from our readers.
Check out reviews from our readers below and on Amazon.
Hi Bill, I’m just reading your book. Stooped at 62 pages with 20 post-its full of notes. Great work, thank you for it.
Martyna Tarnawska
Service Design LeadAfter reading a handful of your interviews, I can hardly wait to read the rest. You are so good at drawing new awareness through people, Bill Fox.
Sue Elliott
CEO, Easier Way Media, Inc.So much leadership and cultural value all in one book.
John Bell
CEO, Jacobs Suchard (Retired)Congratulations!! on a brilliant book that I know has come from real-life experiences of experts in the workplace — enhanced by your unique ability to synthesize, distinguish, and expand on as practical wisdom. What an important work this is — as the Future is literally here now.
Dianne Collins
Author, Do You Quantum Think?Bill Fox has curated a robust trove of insights and thought leadership aimed at future-proofing your organization. I’m honored to have been included in his book, “The Future of the Workplace”. If preparing for the future interests you, Bill is assembling a community of leaders to explore what it takes.
Gwen Kinsey
Transformational LeaderThank you for pushing the critical thinking and the practical actions that lead to human-centered workplaces that inspire all of us to be in the constant pursuit of finding better ways!
Jim Haudan
Chairman, Root, Inc.Bill Fox has a gift for identifying, connecting with, and helping the rest of us understand the leaders of tomorrow, today.
Marc Hanlan
LLMC Partners, AuthorBill Fox in his book The Future of the Workplace: Insights and Advice from 31 Pioneering Business and Thought Leaders is an inquisitive investigator of how a positive work environment can be created and how leaders can contribute to creating an ideal workplace. His set of questions opens a space of discussions, which encourages reflection and further exploration of human thinking and doings. Read the full review at Bill Fox: The Future of the Workplace.
Iuliana Ancuţa Ilie
Pforzheim UniversityThe wisdom of Bill Fox is the incredible ability to help others define their own wisdom.
Marc Hanlan
LLMC Partners, AuthorChapters in the book.
The book includes 30 forward thinking conversations with 31 pioneering business and thought leaders.
Foreward – Like Socrates, the world’s greatest teacher, Bill Fox asks some interesting questions in this book, resulting in exciting responses.
Norman Bodek
Owner, PCS PressIntroduction – The future is already here, and it’s unexpectedly and suddenly different than we’d planned or imagined—even just yesterday.
Bill Fox
Founder, Forward Thinking Workplaces
Howard Behar
Former President, StarbucksChapter 2 – How Do We Create That Environment That Uses Natural System Wisdom?
Gwen Kinsey
Transformation LeaderChapter 3 – Voices Will Matter, People Will Thrive, and Innovation Will Become Ingrained in the Culture if…
John Bell
CEO (Retired), Jacobs SuchardChapter 4 – Discover the Spirit of Self-Reliance
Norman Bodek
Owner, PCS PressChapter 5 – How to Stop Following the Herd and Break Out of the Mundane
Lance Secretan
CEO, The Secretan CenterChapter 6 – How to Create the Right Conditions for Stunning Conversations
Sarah Rozenthuler
Founder, Bridgework Consulting Ltd.Chapter 7 – Making Every Voice Matter
Jeff Dalton
CEO, Broadsword Solutions CorporationAlan Seale
Entrepreneur, AuthorChapter 9 – Why Are So Many Unwilling to Say What They Think, Feel, and Act On?
Jim Haudan
Chairman and Cofounder, Root Inc.Chapter 10 – How to Get 80/20 to Work for You
Perry Marshall
Entrepreneur and ConsultantChapter 11 – It’s Not About Working Harder, or Even Smarter
Michael Neil
Transformative Coach, AuthorChapter 12 – Why Aren’t 21st-Century Employees Thriving?
Sesil Pir
Organizational Psychologist, HR ExpertChapter 13 – Give People More Control
David Marquet
Author, Leadership ExpertChapter 14 – Insights from Leading a Lean Healthcare Revolution
John Toussaint
Lean Healthcare LeaderChapter 15 – Shifting the Center of Gravity
Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir
Managing Director and Film DirectorChapter 16 – What If Corporate Culture Is Perfect, But I’m Not?
Robert Fuchs
Culture ArchitectChapter 17 – Do You See the True Paradigm or Not?
Sandra Krot
Human Dimension Consultant, AuthorChapter 18 – The Surprising Secret of Magic in Business
Andrew Bennett
Leadership Coach and Professional MagicianChapter 19 – What Is the Most Important but Least Recognized Variable in Business?
Dicken Bettinger
Founder, Three Principles MentoringChapter 20 – How to Be a Powerful Agent in the World to Create the Forward-Thinking Workplace
Dianne Collins
Author, Do You QuantumThink?Chapter 21 – How to Be Intentional to Design an Authentic Life and Better World
Brian Gardner
Minimalist Designer, EntrepreneurChapter 22 – How Do We Start and Make It Real?
Tom Thomison
Partner, encode.orgChapter 23 – Exploring Forward Thinking Workplaces with Bob Schatz
Bob Schatz
Agile and Transformation LeaderChapter 24 – Compassionate Communication Is the Key to Everything
Steph Holloway
Body Language & Communication ExpertChapter 25 – How to Incorporate Purpose and Values to Build a Thriving Community
Nick Hughes
Founder, Founders LiveChapter 26 – How to Elevate Yourself, Your Conversations, and Your Future
Aviv Shahar
Founder, Aviv ConsultingChapter 27 – How to Lead More Holistically by Learning the Secrets of the Aspens
Jon Mertz
CEO, Activate WorldChapter 28 – Space to Speak Honestly Gives Us Power
Andy Yen
CEO, Proton TechnologiesChapter 29 – How to Get Beyond the Way Most of Us Are Working Today
Sue Elliott
Personal and Organizational Transformation LeaderChapter 29 – How to Get Beyond the Way Most of Us Are Working Today
John Ryskowski
Personal and Organizational Transformation LeaderChapter 30 – Human-Centered Leadership Empowers People to Scale Mountains
Marcel Schwantes
Human-Centered LeadershipThis conversation invites and allows whole beings to show up; like whole food, whole beings are more nutritious to the system they exist within.
— An Anonymous Reader on the Forward Thinking Workplace