Why the traditional ways of changing your organization no longer work
What’s missing is a repeatable management system—and a spark.
What’s missing is a repeatable management system—and a spark.
Pranay belongs to the small group of writers and thinkers with an aptitude for and experience in both business and philosophy. He was admitted to Oxford at the age of 15, graduated at 18 to become a commodities trader, and then returned to academia five years later to begin a research and teaching career as a philosopher. He now works as a philosophical consultant to business and a writer and editor. Pranay’s areas of expertise include intergenerational justice, with a particular focus on how changes in technology and society alter what it means to be human, and the practical application of philosophy to life and business. His work includes an edited volume on justice and climate change for Cambridge University Press, parts of the UN IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report, and many articles for leading non-academic publications. A passionate cricket fan, he also writes about the sport as a correspondent for ESPN.
Paul is a bestselling and award-winning writer and editor with more than twenty years of research, writing, and editorial experience. His commercial writing work spans a wide range of genres, with an emphasis on thought leadership, organizational leadership, technology, and healthcare. In the last five years, Paul’s projects have been serialized in a major national newspaper, reached the Amazon non-fiction Top 10, and been awarded the British Medical Association’s Psychiatry Book of the Year award. Paul trained as an academic historian of philosophy and spent fifteen years teaching and researching at leading universities in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. His research on Stoic and Platonic thought has been published by the leading academic presses in the world (including both Oxford and Cambridge University Presses), and he continues to work as a writing coach and editor for senior historians and scientists. Paul is an honorary fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter and serves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8 billion company focused on U.S. national security. He is a #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author with ten award-winning books to his name. His new book, TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI, was named a ‘must read’ by the Next Big Idea Club and selected as a Financial Times business book of the month. It became an instant bestseller—across multiple categories—on the USA Today (#1 in Computers, #1 in Philosophy, #3 in Business & Economics, #5 in All Non-Fiction), Los Angeles Times (#7 in All Non-Fiction), and Publishers Weekly lists.
For thirty years, he has been developing commercial business and technology systems, and enabling leadership teams at MasterCard, American Express, GE, Home Depot, French Social Security Services, US Department of Defense (DoD), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others with sustainable growth.