Jacob Morgan
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“When it comes to the future of work, Jacob is both extremely passionate and knowledgeable about the subject. He also has an interesting spin on the kinds of things that can be done to engage and stimulate creative thought in the workplace. I highly recommend Jacob as a speaker!”
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The Human Edge: Why Leading With Vulnerability Wins in the Age of AI
Vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s a leadership superpower. This keynote reveals how combining vulnerability with competence builds trust, deepens connection, and drives real results.
Vulnerability isn’t just a personal trait—it’s a leadership superpower. It builds trust, drives performance, unlocks potential, and fuels transformation. But there’s a catch: vulnerability for leaders isn’t the same as vulnerability for everyone else.
In this powerful keynote, Jacob Morgan shares breakthrough insights from interviews with 100+ CEOs and data from 14,000 employees that reveal what it really means to lead with vulnerability—and why it’s so misunderstood.
This session isn’t about being soft or emotional—it’s about learning how to combine vulnerability with competence to become a truly future-ready leader. Packed with personal stories, real-world examples, and actionable frameworks, Jacob will show your audience how to use vulnerability the right way—so it strengthens leadership, deepens connection, and drives results. Whether you’re leading a team, building a brand, or even working with a ghostwriter berlin (Geisterschreiber in Berlin), this approach will help you communicate with authenticity and impact.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the difference between “being vulnerable” and “leading with vulnerability”—and why it matters.
- Learn the 8 key attributes of vulnerable leaders—and how to build them into your leadership style.
- Discover why vulnerability fails for some leaders—and how to avoid the common traps.
- Explore the proven ROI of vulnerable leadership on trust, engagement, and performance.
- Gain a research-backed framework to lead through uncertainty, change, and challenge with credibility and heart.
- Walk away with a practical roadmap to become a more authentic, respected, and impactful leader.
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Books by Jacob Morgan
“Leading with Vulnerability: Unlock Your Greatest Superpower to Transform Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization” (2023)
Leading with Vulnerability: Unlock Your Greatest Superpower to Transform Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization
“The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade” (2020)
Are you a future-ready leader? Based on exclusive interviews with over 140 of the world's top CEOs and a survey of nearly 14,000 people. Do you have the right mindsets and skills to be able to lead effectively in the next ten years and beyond? Most individuals and organizations don’t even know what leadership will look like in the future. Until now. There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won’t work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now? To answer these questions, Jacob interviewed over 140 CEOs from companies like Unilever, Mastercard, Best Buy, Oracle, Verizon, Kaiser, KPMG, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yum! Brands, Saint-Gobain, Dominos, Philip Morris International, and over a hundred others. Jacob also partnered with Linkedin to survey almost 14,000 of their members around the globe to see how CEO insights align with employee perspectives The majority of the world's top business leaders that Jacob interviewed believe that while some core aspects of leadership will remain the same, such as creating a vision and executing on strategy, leaders of the future will need a new arsenal of skills and mindsets to succeed. What emerged from all of this research is the most accurate groundbreaking book on the future of leadership, which shares exclusive insights from the world's top CEOs and never before seen research. After reading it, you will: · Learn the greatest trends impacting the future of leadership and their implications · Understand the top skills and mindsets that leaders of the future will need to possess and how to learn them · Change your perception of who a leader is and what leadership means · Tackle the greatest challenges that leaders of the future will face · See the gap that exists between what CEOs identified versus what employees are actually experiencing · Become a future-ready leader This is the book that you, your team, and your organization must to read in order to lead in the future of work.
“The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate” (2017)
“The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization” (2014)
“The Collaborative Organization: A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools” (2012)
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