Erica Keswin - Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World

This is an important moment. We are all trying to figure out how to create a workplace thats inclusive, meaningful, and inspires the kind of creativity that leads to innovation. Erica Keswins heartfelt, accessible, well-researched book, Bring Your Human to Work, is what weve all been waiting for.

KATIE COURIC
journalist and bestselling author

When people thrive, business thrives. And thats why companies that prioritize employee well-being will win the future. In Bring Your Human to Work, Erica Keswin shares the science and the stories of companies that get it right. If you want to build a thriving workforce, this book is for you.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
founder of Huffington Post and founder and CEO of Thrive Global

If you care about people as much as profits, this book is full of useful ideas for making work life better.

ADAM GRANT
New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg

One of the best employee habits is honoring relationshipswith colleagues, clients, and ourselves. Erica Keswin shares the science and stories from companies about how great relationships happen.

CHARLES DUHIGG
bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

Erica Keswins Bring Your Human to Work is the wake-up call we need to show that building a great company is about way more than just a focus on the bottom line. Erica has created a must-read for leaders, managers, and employees trying to navigate this Dot Complicated world where work, life, and purpose blend more closely together than ever.

RANDI ZUCKERBERG
CEO of Zuckerberg Media, and New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated and Pick Three

In an age of disruption and rapid technological change, theres a growing desire for meaning and authenticity at work. Erica Keswins incisive new book shows us how to find it. Whether youre an entrepreneur, a leader, or anyone looking for a more purpose-driven job, this book answers your big questions.

DORIE CLARK
author of Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out, and adjunct professor at Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Hugely insightful and stunningly practical, Bring Your Human to Work offers a wealth of powerful strategies for humanizing technology, hiring the right people, designing a smart office layout, and so much more. Discover the ten essential ingredients elite organizations use to create extraordinary workplaceswrapped inside a framework thats both fun to learn and easy to customize.

RON FRIEDMAN, PHD
author of The Best Place to Work

Social isolation is one of the greatest risks in todays digital world. Ericas Bring Your Human to Work goes beyond acknowledging this challenge to offer specific, practical, and creative ways to create belonging in the workplace. Leaders who apply her insights will not only engage employees, but customers and investors as well.

DAVE ULRICH
Rensis Likert Professor at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and partner at the RBL Group

In her impactful new book, Erica Keswin digs deep through relatable, real-world examples to uncover how working human is essential to both honoring relationships and helping employees feel happier and more fulfilled in the work they do each day. She also uncovers a universal truth that affects all of us: recognition is a fundamental human need, one that can influence everything we do. Her book is aptly named; its time for us all to bring our human to work.

DEREK IRVINE
vice president, client strategy and consulting at Globoforce

In a world where busy is equated with status, competence and ambition, people are seemingly having a more and more difficult time disconnecting. And in our quest for busy we have lost our, as Keswin says, Human! In Bring Your Human to Work, she discusses practical strategies for building workplace cultures that embrace our human, using technology as a tool for good, and helping us form more meaningful connections. If we are to build a more human workplace, this is a book not to be missed!

GAIL BERGER, PHD
assistant professor of instruction in industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

This book gives the reader a rich collection of actionable steps which any organization can use to become more authentic, genuine, and human. It is chock-full of examples from large and small firms, high-tech and no-tech organizations, start-ups and established companies. I guarantee youll come away with good ideas for making the firm you work in even more human.

JACK ZENGER
bestselling author and CEO of Zenger-Folkman, a firm dedicated to elevating leadership behavior

This insightful book is loaded with action plans, resources, powerful statistics, and real-life stories of heart-centered leaders and their organizations. If you are looking for an actionable list of things to do to up-level your culture and bring more human to work, Bring Your Human to Work is a lovely guide offering us easy-to-integrate steps and practices to bring our human in.

ANESE CAVANAUGH
author of Contagious Culture, and creator of the IEP Method

Erica Keswins Bring Your Human to Work will transform the way you think about finding meaning and connection through your work. It is a must-read for anyone passionate about building a purpose-driven life and career. There are so many essential lessons for business and nonprofit leaders on how to build a culture that inspires the very best from their people.

SHIZA SHAHID
cofounder of Malala Fund, and founder of NOW Ventures

Bring Your Human to Work highlights an important message and one that Ive always believed: building relationships is one of the most important aspects in building any business. This is more important than ever in our digital age. Read this book, invest in relationships. Your business will thank you.

SHELLEY ZALIS
CEO of the Female Quotient, and founder of the Girls Lounge

Copyright 2019 by Erica Keswin. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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