Dr. Michelle Johnston

Yes, great question, Ryan.

So I'm an executive coach, and I was coaching all these leaders who were at the top of their game and thinking they were doing everything right and having all of the one-on-one meetings and all of the team meetings and all of the off-sites.

And they were telling me that at the end of the day, they were burned out, drained.

They were struggling, finding purpose, that there was something not working.

And so my co-author, Marshall Goldsmith, and I were at the Thinkers 50 Awards in London.

in 2023, and we're listening to all the top thinkers.

The Thinkers 50 is called the Oscars of Management Thinking.

We're listening to the Amy Edmondsons, you know, at Harvard, Psychological Safety, and the Kirsten Fergusons of Heart and Humanity.

We're listening to Dori Clark and Ruth Gotian, all these amazing speakers talking about the chaos like you identified around us and how technology is making us

think that we're connected, and yet we're lonelier than we've ever been in the history of the planet.

We're more disconnected.

We're more anxious.

We're totally addicted to our technology, and it's only going to get worse.

And so the big question on the table was, what in the world can leaders do with this chaos, with this addiction to technology, and it's not making us feel good?

And so my whole brand is the seismic shift, right?

So my first book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, was I believe the biggest seismic shift is towards connection.

This book addresses this disconnection epidemic that we're in, and it's more geared towards humans.

of how I truly believe, Ryan, we need to shift from the what to the who.

And that's going to make all the difference.

We've got caught up in the progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, achievement, achievement, achievement, achievement, task, task, task.