About the Author

Dan Schawbel is a New York Times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur, and Fortune 500 consultant.

Dan is a partner and research director at Future Workplace, and the founder of both Millennial Branding and WorkplaceTrends.com. He is the best-selling author of two career books: Promote Yourself and Me 2.0. His third book is called Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation. Through his companies, he's conducted dozens of research studies and worked with major brands including American Express, GE, Microsoft, Virgin, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Oracle. Dan has interviewed over 2,000 of the world's most successful people, including Warren Buffett, Anthony Bourdain, Jessica Alba, will.i.am, Michael Bloomberg, Chelsea Handler, Colin Powell, Sheryl Sandberg, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition, he has written countless articles for Forbes, Fortune, TIME, The Economist, Quartz, the World Economic Forum, the Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, and others that have combined generated over 15 million views. Considered "one of today's more dynamic young entrepreneurs" by Inc. magazine, Schawbel has been profiled or quoted in over 2,000 media outlets, such as The Today Show on NBC, Fox & Friends on Fox News, Your Business on MSNBC, The Steve Harvey Show, the Wall Street Journal, People, Wired, GQ, The Economist, and NPR. He has been recognized on several lists, including Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30," Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30," Businessweek magazine's "20 Entrepreneurs You Should Follow," Workforce magazine's "Game Changers," and the Business Insider "40 Under 40" list.