
Simon Sinek
Renowned Leadership Expert, Author & Optimist
Best-selling Author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, & Together is Better
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Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to
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Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work, Sinek is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.
Sinek is the author of three best selling books:
- The global best seller, Start With Why: How Great Leaders
Inspire Everyone to Take Action.
- The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best
seller, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and
Others Don’t.
- And his latest book, launched September 2016, is the New York
Times and Wall Street Journal best seller,
Together is Better: A Little Book of
Inspiration.
Simon has four more books pending, including Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, coming out late 2017.
A trained ethnographer, Sinek is fascinated by the leaders and companies that make the greatest impact in their organizations and in the world, those with the capacity to inspire, he has discovered some remarkable patterns about how they think, act and communicate and the environments in which people operate at their natural best. He has devoted his life to sharing his thinking in order to help other leaders and organizations inspire action.
Simon is also best known for popularizing the concept of Why in his first Ted Talk in 2009. It has since risen to the third most watched talk of all time on TED.com, gathering 31+million views and is subtitled in 45 languages.
Sinek’s unconventional and innovative views on business and leadership have attracted international attention and have earned him invitations to meet with an array of leaders and organizations, including: Disney, jetBlue, MARS, SAP, KPMG, Pfizer, NBC, government agencies and entrepreneurs. Sinek has also had the honor of sharing his ideas at the United Nations, the United States Congress and with the senior leadership of the United States Air Force, Marine Corps, Army and Navy, as well as Special Forces Agencies.
Sinek shares his optimism with all who will listen. He speaks around the globe and has commented for local and national press, including: The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, NPR, and BusinessWeek.
Sinek is active on social media and writes his own blog, simonsinek.com.
Sinek is an adjunct staff member of the RAND Corporation, one of the most highly regarded think tanks in the world. He is active in the arts and not-for-profit world, including charity: water, an organization devoted to helping bring clean water to the over 700 million people around the world. He also serves on the board of the Tami Stronach Dance Company and lives in New York.
Millennial Misconceptions: How they are changing the workplace | Today Show
How to hone leadership skills | CNBC’s Squawk Box
Behind the Scenes | Success Magazine
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace: Inside Quest
Leadership Expert Simon Sinek on Putting Others First: CBS This Morning
Why Leaders Eat Last: 99U
Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe: TED
How to Be A Great Leader: Inspiring Others To Do Remarkable Things
Simon Sinek on leadership, & finding your calling: Larry King Now
How Great Leaders Inspire Action: TED
Life Lessons with Simon Sinek: The RSA
Simon Sinek on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Why the Empathetic Leader Is the Best Leader
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Simon Sinek: The Secret to Leadership and Millennials Is Simply Purpose
Success MagazineWhen Simon Sinek speaks, he’s quite convincing. It’s not just that he looks and sounds so smart. Alhough his spiked hair and thick-framed glasses do sort of make him look like a cartoon avatar for a modern brainiac, and his ever-so-slight British… Read more
Simon Sinek on the Millennial Question
Success Magazine, “Success Talks” PodcastHow do we manage millennials? It’s a question confounding employers across the globe. Simon Sinek, best-selling author, speaker and strategist says it comes down to empathy. In this interview with guest host Tom Bilyeu, Sinek expands on “The Millennial Question” that caused… Read more
An Inspiring Discussion With Simon Sinek About Learning Your 'Why'
EntrepreneurYou will never figure out "how'' until you are clear on "why."… Read more
Five Minutes With: Simon Sinek
AdNewsAd agencies would do well to stand for something, according to Simon Sinek, the author of Start with Why. He’s a former New York ad man, but left the advertising business following 9/11 after realising that his job was “stupid”. AdNews talks… Read more
Simon Sinek: Why Leadership is Better 'Together'
FOX NewsWhen starting up, entrepreneurs can sometimes think they are superhuman and try to handle every detail, no matter how large or small, by themselves. The business is their responsibility and liability -- alone.… Read more
Simon Sinek: Why You Need Other People In Order To Build A Successful Career
ForbesSimon Sinek, author of Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, talks about why he chose to write a business fable for his new book, who has helped him build the successful career he has today, the importance of mutual benefit… Read more