Future Career

What’s coming next for today’s workforce, and the companies behind them? For those eager and willing to adapt, the possibilities are nearly endless, says author Gerard Szatvanyi. Recent advances in technology have led to new trends, and this global transformation holds tremendous potential. Nearly every industry will be impacted, and organizations that set the right vision could benefit from breaking into new markets and creating specialized niches.

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s your opportunity to build Version 2.0 of yourself. By the time we reach our forties, many of us feel caught between two realities. On the outside, we’ve built careers, raised families, and achieved stability. But on the inside, restlessness grows. The work that once felt exciting now feels stale. The ladder we’ve been climbing seems to be leaning against the wrong wall. And yet, starting over feels risky, even impossible. How to Build Your 2.0 in Your Forties is a guide for that exact moment.

Wrap Your Future is your comprehensive guide to launching a successful car wrapping business. Dive into the essentials of building a solid business foundation, from understanding the financial requirements and necessary tools, to acquiring the skills needed to deliver high-quality wraps. This book addresses the real-world issues new business owners face, including tight budgets, finding reliable suppliers, and attracting your first customers.

Whether you want to reset your career, strike out on your own, or just ignite more joy in what you do, this Illuminating book shows you how to create a working life that reveals meaning while rewriting our collective future. When we connect with something larger than ourselves, we enjoy the fruits of our labour as well as the journey - the sweat and the struggle. It's the unyielding commitment to a purpose that gives shapers their shimmer. The benefits of this shine are plentiful: enhanced well-being, more community engagement, a healthier economy, and better work for all.

Want to use AI in your classroom but unsure where to begin? Struggling with how it fits your curriculum or concerned about ethics? You're not alone. Many educators feel the same—but with the right tools, you can make AI work for your students.

Technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

Wasted Talent is a call to action against a system that has failed workers for too long. The future of work was supposed to be about more innovation, flexibility, and opportunity for all, but for most it has brought nothing but unfulfilled promises. Work isn’t working for everyone—and the cost is staggering.

Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent disruption. Dual Transformation shows you how your company can come out of a market shift stronger and more profitable, because the threat of disruption is also the greatest opportunity a leadership team will ever face.

Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.

Maggie Jacobs is passionate about driving positive change and growth for individuals, teams, executives, and organizations. She has spent 10+ years working with C-suite executives, turning the seemingly impossible into reality. A survivor of trials and traumas, Maggie has developed a philosophy that strength and resilience can be found with open, honest, and authentic communication, solution-finding - and decisive action. Today, Maggie speaks, writes, trains, and advises individuals on achieving more and transcending the boundaries of their own perception.

The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by COVID-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies - and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion.

Step away from viewing marketing as a cost center that drains money from annual budgets and delivers unreliable results. It’s really a burgeoning profit generator that can power growth and abundance in every aspect of your business. But only if you do it right. In Here We Grow, you’ll learn how to build scalable and repeatable marketing programs that result in transformational change — whatever that may look like for your business.

From leading global futurist and advisor James Canton, the acclaimed author of The Extreme Future and Technofutures, comes Future Smart: the essential blueprint on what's coming next. It details the key changes--in health and medicine, technology and communication, the global economy, the Earth's climate, energy, and business--that every person, company, and government must understand in order not only to adapt accordingly but to thrive in the coming decades.

In Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Business Transformation, Profitability, and Future Readiness, Ian Khan, a distinguished futurist, filmmaker, and author, delivers a compelling message that challenges the conventional approach to future-proofing businesses with technology, offering a fresh, comprehensive strategy for thriving in an uncertain future.

This is a book for leaders who think about legacy, their own and the one their business is leaving. Yet, none of us get to write our legacy, that is for those who come after us. This book and the lessons within will enable you to improve yours.

If this book sparked a shift in how you see work, learning, or leadership, Future Ready is your next step. In this transformative guide, Daniel Stouffer shows why today’s students don’t need more advice. They need mentors who are willing to evolve. This isn’t another career prep book. It’s a human-first roadmap for navigating uncertainty, leading with purpose, and preparing others for futures we can’t yet predict.

Leadership today requires clear judgment amid ongoing crisis. Overlapping economic, climate, cultural, and geopolitical pressures have become the operating environment for senior leaders. Decisions carry real consequences, tradeoffs are constant, and the pace rarely slows. Leading Through Fire is written for leaders navigating this reality with care and responsibility.

What Skills Will Future Employers Value Most? is a forward-thinking and motivational short listen designed to help you stay relevant, resilient, and ready for the ever-changing job market. In a world of constant innovation and disruption, this audiobook guides you through the mindset and skillset shifts you’ll need to not only keep up—but to lead.

The secret to giving better feedback isn't what we say - it's what others hear. Too often, people hear about a past they can't control, not a future they can. That changes with "feedforward" - a radical approach to sharing feedback that unleashes the performance and potential of everyone around us.