
The New York business psychologist has spent more than two decades studying what makes people work well together. Her answer is less about office attendance than the human connections leaders can no longer leave to chance.
A former television journalist built a consultancy around one unfashionable idea: people are not targets waiting to be hit. They are moving, talking, skeptical actors - and the brands that treat them that way can turn attention into action.
Most culture projects begin with words. bink. begins by asking what the company rewards, excuses and repeats - then charges from $45,000 to make the answers line up.
The internal-communications firm asks leaders to trust employees with hard news. In 2021, it made that advice literal by turning every colleague into an owner.

After more than 15 years in technology HR, Tatiane Almeida has built a practical philosophy around an unfashionable idea: leaders earn trust by inviting questions, sharing purpose and knowing when to let someone else shine.

A Virginia administrator came to Iowa with a family, a founder's itch and one stubborn diagram: put residents and frontline staff at the top. A decade later, that upside-down chart remains a compact explanation of how Ted LeNeave wants Accura to work.

The CEO of ibelong has spent three decades following a stubborn question through Silicon Valley: what changes when leaders treat connection as part of the operating system?