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Marcus Buckingham is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, has three of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles, and has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, The Today Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
After spending two decades studying excellence at the Gallup Organization and co-creating the StrengthsFinder tool, he built his own Coaching + Education firm, The Marcus Buckingham Company. As CEO, he quickly turned it into a Human Capital Management company working with some of the world’s largest organizations. TMBC was sold to ADP in 2017.
Known as the world’s most prominent researcher on strengths, love and leadership at work, Marcus’s data-based discoveries are unlocking the best in each of us and defining the future of how we work.
He is the author of ten business books, and his latest best-selling release —Love + Work - is now the core of his mission. He is dedicating the next decade to helping individuals and organizations to unlock and focus the most powerful force in business: love.
Over 30 million people have taken the strengths assessment created or co-created by him, StandOut and StrengthsFinder, and discovered the source of their unique strengths.
Marcus’s books and articles have radically reshaped the world’s approach to work and performance. Groundbreaking and foundational concepts such as ‘People leave managers, not companies,’ ‘The best leaders focus on strengths and manage around weaknesses,’ ‘Employee engagement drives customer loyalty,’ ‘People crave attention, not feedback,’ ‘Humans cannot reliably rate other humans’ and ‘Love is the most powerful force in business’ were all first introduced in one of Marcus’s books or articles.
Over the last thirty years, Marcus has delivered more than a thousand keynote speeches to global high-achiever and leadership audiences.
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