Do you ever feel like you aren’t living your fullest at work?
Or that you have to pretend to be someone else just to be successful?
Adam Weber has made it his life’s mission to help people become their best selves and discover how their careers can become the answer to their purpose. As a thought leader on people solutions, he shows leaders how to get the best out of their staff and he’s seen how, when employees bring their full selves to work, they unleash their true potential and do great things—both for themselves and for the organizations that employ them. How? Through a new approach to leadership that requires businesspeople to be authentic, to be vulnerable, to be themselves—to be human.
In Lead Like a Human, Adam shares his unique perspective on leadership as well as practical tips on building and leading engaged teams of empowered employees. From creating an enduring culture to using data to pinpoint your organization’s toughest problems, you’ll learn how to engage your people in a way that drives innovation and real business growth. When you lead like a human, you unlock the potential in yourself and in your people, allowing everyone to do impactful work that is challenging, captivating, and, ultimately, inspiring.

ADAM WEBER, As the chief people officer and cofounder of Emplify, ADAM WEBER helps lead an innovative, highly engaged culture and shares his learnings with strategic people leaders all over the world through speaking engagements. In 2020, Adam was named to Business Insider’s list of Rising Stars in Human Resources. Adam is a proud Ball State University alum. He lives with his wife, two sons, and dog in Zionsville, Indiana. His hobbies include camping with his family and backyard birdwatching.

VERNE HARNISH is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members world-wide, and founded and chaired for fi fteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 290 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.

The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, he’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to Scale.

Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD Unlock Your Potential The Accidental Entrepreneur A Changing Workforce Lead Like a Human What Is Employee Engagement? Step One: Centeredness Step Two: Align Around Your Company Purpose Step Three: Define Your Values and Activate Your Culture Step Four: Set Goals with Your Team Step Five: Create a Culture of Continual Improvement Step Six: Use Data CONCLUSION ABOUT THE AUTHOR OUR SERVICES