Mike Robbins - Bring Your Whole Self to Work: How Vulnerability Unlocks Creativity, Connection, and Performance

Praise for

Bring Your

WHOLE SELF

to Work

Bring Your Whole Self to Work is a great book for leaders, teams, and companies that are interested in collaboration, trust, and high performance. Mike has a great style and unique perspective. The principles in this book have helped me and our executive leadership team at eBay.

Devin Wenig, President and CEO of eBay

To make the greatest impact in the world, we must first start within. The lessons outlined in Bring Your Whole Self to Work will help you unlock and unleash your most authentic, vulnerable self. Excellent advice for anyone in businessfrom CEO to aspiring entrepreneur.

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS and author of Start Something That Matters

Bring Your Whole Self to Work is full of practical tools for learning how to be present and live more fully... and, by doing so, to be stronger performers, better team players, more effective leaders, and happier people. Thank you, Mike, for making a great case for truly showing up at work and giving us tangible suggestions for how to do so.

Karen May, Vice President, People Development at Google

If you want to take your career to the next level and have impact on those around you, as well as the culture of your team, Bring Your Whole Self to Work is for you. This book is filled with wisdom and tangible ideas that you can put into practice right away.

Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and New York Times best-selling author of Emotional Equations

In Bring Your Whole Self to Work, Mike Robbins teaches us that by revealing our imperfect, authentic selves at work, we give those around us permission to do the same, and the result is a more confident, compassionate, collaborative, and engaged work environment for all. Writing with his signature wisdom, candor, and care, Mike proves that work is like all our most important relationships: our experience and outcome is transformed when we stop pretending to be who we think we should be, and start showing up as who we really are.

Glennon Doyle, founder of Together Rising and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior

Mike Robbins is an important thought leader for our times. He reminds us simultaneously to embrace and celebrate our diversity, and that were way more alike than we are different. The ideas in Bring Your Whole Self to Work are fundamental to the success of leaders and teams in all aspects of our society today. This book could not have come at a better time.

Tim Ryan, U.S. Representative for Ohios 13th District and author of A Mindful Nation

This book reminds us that leadership is about service, caring about the people we work with, and building strong teams. Ive had the pleasure of working with Mike Robbins and I appreciate his commitment to these important principles. Bring Your Whole Self to Work will help you enhance your capacity and impact as a leader, and as a human being.

Hal Lawton, President of Macys

Bringing our whole selves to work is about being radically candid and connecting with the humanity of those around us. Mike Robbins does a great job of laying out why this is important to our success and how to do it in this powerful book.

Kim Scott, New York Times best-selling author of Radical Candor

As a CEO and little league coach, Ive come to see shared purpose as the best predictor of group performance. Encouraging vulnerability and connection across your team is an unlock for both. Bring Your Whole Self to Work is a powerful guide to this type of leadership and culture.

Kevin Cleary, CEO of Clif Bar & Company

This book is a powerful tool. The world is calling for us to step up, speak up, and bring all of ourselves to the work we do. Mike Robbins challenges us to do this in an inspiring way.

Gabrielle Bernstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back

Mike Robbins is a trusted advisor to us, and has had a very positive impact on me personally, as well as on our leaders and the corporate culture at Nutanix. The ideas and principles in Bring Your Whole Self to Work are critical to teams that want to thrive in todays competitive business environment.

Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and CEO of Nutanix

Mike Robbins has a unique knack for connecting personal fulfillment to business success. His important lessons of appreciation, authenticity, and empathy are universal and lead to more engaged employees. Not only do I use some of his exercises with our organization, but I even suggested one that my daughters teacher used in class.

Amy Brooks, President, Team Marketing & Business Operations and Chief Innovation Officer of the NBA

I have witnessed the power of the principles in this book. I have seen how authentic and vulnerable leaders and teams come together and perform at a higher level and even win championships. Mike Robbins gives you the blueprint to lead and work more powerfully in this significant, pioneering, and must-read book.

Jon Gordon, best-selling author of The Power of Positive Leadership

The principles in Mike Robbins Bring Your Whole Self to Work are important learnings, especially in todays complex business environment. Creating cultures of diverse and engaged employees is the secret to serving customers in a standout way that allows organizations to thrive, and employees to innovate and do their best work.

Donna Morris, EVP, Customer and Employee Experience, Adobe

We hear words like integrity, authenticity, and empathy kicked around these days. But what are they really? And, how do they play into our quest to contribute meaningfully to the world and to live a good life? In Bring Your Whole Self to Work, Mike Robbins digs into these questions and invites us to live more integrated lives and bring more of our true selves to work, so we can have the biggest impact on those around us and the world.

Jonathan Fields, founder, Good Life Project and author of How to Live a Good Life

ALSO BY MIKE ROBBINS

Books

Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity

Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation

Nothing Changes Until You Do: A Guide to Self-Compassion and Getting Out of Your Own Way

CDs

The Power of Appreciation

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