Adam Markel - Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience

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Change Proof

Thinking about change often brings up in us rolling panic and a sickening fear of the unknown. Adam Markel turns that on its head with Change Proof, offering leaders an opportunity to confidently adapt to, and even pursue, change. Take the opportunity to build resiliency in yourself, your relationships, and your business. A must read!

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times number-one bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

Adam Markels Change Proof tackles complicated topics with simplicity and exceptional storytelling. Its an important read for leaders building resilient teams.

Brian Halligan, cofounder and executive chairman of HubSpot

Adam has done it again with Change Proof. Resilience, real-life solutions to chaos, and practical ways you can use them to learn and lead in your organization.

Garry Ridge, chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company

A three-step process to keep driving toward your visionspectacular!

Phil Town, CEO of Rule One Partners and New York Times number-one bestselling author of Rule #1 and Payback Time

How do you make sure your folks are crushing it without getting crushed in the process? Adam Markels Change Proof is a guide for building resilience into the very fabric of your team. Its hard to imagine a more important book for our tumultuous times.

Steve Farber, author of The Radical Leap and Love Is Just Damn Good Business

In Change Proof, Adam Markel artfully explains how to thrive in the face of constant change. The concepts are universal and apply to readers at all stages of life. By weaving together game-changing wisdom with engaging storytelling, Markel charts a path for us to become more resilient and upgrade our lives.

Mark Gober, award-winning author of An End to Upside Down Thinking and board member at the Institute of Noetic Sciences

The first book on change to invite readers to be emotionally engulfed in dramatic uncertainty, and then rationally receive the tools to effectively deal with it. If this book were a movie it would feel like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Get ready for a wild ride.

Chip R. Bell, author of Inside Your Customers Imagination

Adam Markel is a terrific storyteller, and his new book, Change Proof, will have you ripping through the pages to find out what happens. Along the way he will teach youpainlesslyhow to deal with change. Read it now if you want to thrive in the post-pandemic world.

Dr. Nick Morgan, president of Public Words, Inc., and author of Can You Hear Me?

Adam Markels Change Proof is like talking with your best friend through your toughest times and getting life-changing advice you will share with someone else in need someday. I highly recommend reading this book!

Lisa Garr, host of The Aware Show

Change Proof is pure wisdom. Adam shares powerful lessons from real experiences to teach us how to convert fear, stress, and uncertainty into rocket fuel for resiliency!

Todd Kane, author of Hide & Seek, speaker, and inclusive strategist

The need for resilience and agility is more important now than ever before, and these characteristics are going to become even more important as we move into the future. In Change Proof, Adam Markel provides the recipe for developing these characteristics so that you can be the driver of your future instead of the passenger of it.

Ryan Gottfredson, consultant, trainer, speaker, and coach

The only true constant in life is change. Revealing his own trials and tribulations along the journey of life (with some of the most daunting arising when we think we have it all figured out), Adam beautifully lays out what is required to be authentic and effective in a perpetually changing world. Our fantasies have to die so that our dreams can come true. If you are a human, this is a book for you!

Reed Diamond, American actor

Long-term and sustained resilience is needed now more than ever before. I completed 112 marathons. I lost a child to suicide. Adam taught me how to be resilientregardless. Deposit what Adam teaches you in Change Proof in your subconscious and see how it will help you move forward one step at a time.

Dr. Peter Neiman, pediatrician, health coach, and bestselling author.

Adam has done it again with Change Proof. Resilience, real-life solutions to chaos, and everything else you would want from a powerhouse business development book.

Dr. Ivan Misner, Founder of BNI and New York Times bestselling author

There are few certainties in life, but the fact that things change is one you can count on. Adam Markels new book, Change Proof, will give you the tools and strategies needed to not only deal with changes that occur, but to embrace them... and thrive.

David Meltzer, cofounder of Sports 1 Marketing, bestselling author, and top business coach

Wow, Change Proof is awesome. I began reading and couldnt stop!

Dawson Church, PhD, CEO of Energy Psychology Group

A delightful read packed full of real-life stories you will immediately relate to and tools you can actually use. Its time to kick stress to the curb and, as resilience expert Adam Markel puts it, become Change Proof.

Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters

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