“Dan Schawbel is the new voice of the workplace.”
– David Bach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire
Shortest bio
Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author and the Managing Partner of Workplace Intelligence, an award-winning thought leadership and research agency focused on the world of work. He is the bestselling author of three career books: Back to Human, Promote Yourself, and Me 2.0. Through his company, Dan has led over 80 research studies with major brands including Amazon, Oracle, Deloitte, American Express, and WeWork. As one of LinkedIn’s “Top Voices”, Dan’s Workplace Intelligence Weekly LinkedIn newsletter is one of the most read in his industry with nearly 400,000 subscribers and over 220,000 students who have taken his LinkedIn Learning courses on leadership, management, and hybrid working.
Short bio
Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author and the Managing Partner of Workplace Intelligence, an award-winning thought leadership and research agency focused on the world of work. Dan is the bestselling author of three career books: Back to Human, Promote Yourself, and Me 2.0. Through his companies, he’s conducted dozens of research studies and worked with major brands including Amazon, Deloitte, American Express, GE, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Virgin, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Oracle. Schawbel is also the host of the 5 Questions podcast, where he interviews world-class humans like Matthew McConaughey, Richard Branson, Condoleezza Rice, Reed Hastings, Chelsea Handler, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. His Workplace Intelligence Weekly LinkedIn newsletter is the most read in his industry with over 390,000 subscribers and over 190,000 students who have taken his LinkedIn Learning courses on leadership, management, and hybrid working. 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 NBC’s “The Today Show” and “Nightly News”, Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”, MSNBC’s “Your Business,” The Steve Harvey Show, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Wired Magazine, 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”, Business Insider’s “40 Under 40”, BusinessWeek’s “20 Entrepreneurs You Should Follow,” and as one of Workforce Magazine’s “Game Changers”.
Long bio
Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author and the Managing Partner of Workplace Intelligence, an award-winning thought leadership and research agency focused on the world of work.
Dan is also the founder of WorkplaceTrends.com, which was acquired in 2016 by Future Workplace, where he was a Partner and Research Director for four years. Through his businesses, he’s helped companies like American Express, NBC Universal, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Red Bull, Red Robin, Oracle, Fidelity, and Monster prepare for the future of work and create more human work cultures. Dan has led over 65 groundbreaking research studies, surveying over 2.1 million people from 26 different countries. His research has been the subject of cover stories for both Money Magazine and HR Magazine and is featured in over 800 media outlets including The New York Times, NBC, CNN, USA Today, and Men’s Health.
He is the author of three bestselling career books. Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation (Da Capo Press) is a Washington Post bestseller and was chosen as The Financial Times “book of the month”. Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, a #1 Barnes & Noble business bestseller, and was named the #1 career book of 2013 by The Chicago Tribune. Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future was a #1 international bestseller and was named the #1 career book of 2009 by The New York Post. His books have been endorsed by over 50 CEOs (Whole Foods, Intuit, Sodexo, Panera Bread, Campbells Soup), celebrities (Dr. Mehmet Oz, Patti Stanger, Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran), professors (Harvard, UPenn, Dartmouth, Northwestern) and bestselling authors (Adam Grant, Daniel Pink, David Bach, Harvey Mackay, Seth Godin, Gretchen Rubin, Stephen R. Covey, Dan Heath, Ken Blanchard, Dave Ramsey, Jeffrey Gitomer, Jack Canfield, Susan Cain). Combined, his books have been translated into 18 different languages and are used as textbooks at many schools including Stanford University, Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Texas at Austin. Both bestsellers were published before Dan’s 30th birthday.
Dan is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, a Forbes ”Top Website for Your Career” and ranked as the #1 Job Blog by Careerbuilder. It has over 6,000 articles that have been read by over 5 million professionals, in 228 different countries, and is the most syndicated career resource in America, with partnerships including Yahoo!, AOL, Biz Journals, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Business Insider. He is a columnist at CNBC.com and a former columnist at Forbes, TIME, Metro US, BusinessWeek, and Mashable. In addition, he has written for The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CBS MoneyWatch, CNN.com, Fast Company, Forbes Magazine, The Guardian, Inc., Fortune, TechCrunch, The World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur, The Globe And Mail, and numerous others. Schawbel has written over 2,000 articles that have generated more than 10 million views, with one even being shared by Senator Bernie Sanders.
He’s spoken at some of the world’s most prestigious companies including Coca-Cola, Google, IBM, Time Warner, Ericsson, CitiGroup, McGraw-Hill, and Siemens, as well as some of the most notable schools, including Harvard Business School, Stanford, Cornell, and MIT. In 2010, Dan was recognized as Hearst Visiting Professional at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. In addition, he’s spoken at major conferences such as The New York Times DealBook Conference, Bloomberg’s Business of Equality Summit, 92nd Street Y, SHRM, ASTD, HCI, Work Human and The Conference Board, in different countries like Japan, the UK, Canada, Brazil and Mexico and shared the stage with people like Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ice-T, Simon Sinek, Mel Robbins, Dennis Miller, and Marshall Goldsmith.
Dan’s long list of honors includes Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”, Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30”, Business Insider’s “40 Under 40”, BusinessWeek’s “20 Entrepreneurs You Should Follow”, Workforce Magazine’s “25 Game Changers” and Details Magazine’s “5 Internet Gurus That Can Make You Rich”.
Dan has interviewed over 2,300 people in his career, from celebrities (Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Bourdain, James Franco, Jessica Alba, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachael Ray) to CEOs (Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, J. W. Marriott Jr., Richard Branson, Ed Catmull, Reed Hastings, Meg Whitman, Jack Welch, Kevin Systrom, John Mackey) to thought leaders (Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Peters, Jim Collins, Simon Sinek, Clayton Christensen, Michael Porter) to politicians (Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Stacey Abrams, Andrew Yang, Al Franken, John Kerry, Cory Booker, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld) and even two astronauts (Chris Hadfield, Mike Massimino). In addition, he interviewed David Karp (Founder of Tumblr) for the January 2013 cover of Forbes Magazine and his profile of Ryan Blair (CEO of ViSalus) made the Yahoo! homepage. He is the host of “5 Questions”, a podcast where he interviews a variety of world-class human by asking them 5 questions.
He has been featured in over 1,200 media outlets such as NBC’s “The Today Show” and “Nightly Business News”, The Steve Harvey Show, PBS’s “The Nightly Business Report”, CNBC’s “Power Lunch” “Closing Bell” and “Fast Money”, Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”, Fox Business’s ”The Willis Report”, Bloomberg TV’s “In The Loop”, NPR, People Magazine, GQ, The Economist, and Wired Magazine. Dan has been featured in cover stories in The Wall Street Journal business section, The Economist Intelligent Life Magazine, and The Boston Globe. His work has also been cited in over 50 books, including Marketing 3.0 by Philip Kotler and The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick. He’s been a spokesperson for Philips, Staples, DeVry University, and The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, as well as contributed thought leadership to programs created by Bank of America, Self Magazine, PayPal, CapitalOne, Intuit, and The University of Phoenix.
From 2007 to 2012, Dan published Personal Branding Magazine, with a team of 20 and 150 contributing writers. In total, there were 19 issues that included exclusive interviews with Evander Holyfield, Guy Fieri, Kathy Ireland, Brooke Burke, and Gary Vaynerchuk. During that time, he also hosted sold-out networking events that included speakers such as Johnny Cupcakes, Kenny Florian (UFC), Larry Weber (Founder of Weber Shandwick), and representatives from The Boston Celtics, The Jimmy Fund, Harvard University, Hill Holliday, and The Harpoon Brewery.
In 2007, Dan co-created one of the first social media positions in a Fortune 200 company and the first one ever at EMC. He was known for creating EMC’s social media accounts, working across multiple departments worldwide to train and implement social strategies, and helping grow their internal network to over 10,000 users before he left in 2010. For his efforts, Mashable named EMC one of the “40 best Twitter brands” and AdAge noted that “Schawbel has revolutionized the way EMC communicates and collaborates with its stakeholders.” While at EMC, Dan became Six Sigma “Green Belt” certified, leading a successful cross-functional project that increased efficiency’s in the marketing services department.
Dan entered the workforce at the age of 13, had his first internship in high school, started his first business (a web design firm) in college, and graduated with eight internships in total. Work ethic was instilled in him early by his family and is still very much alive in him today.
He is a founding member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, on the advisory board of the Kronos Workforce Institute, and is an advisor to Branded.Me, a website generator, and Freelanship.com, a freelance marketplace for students. He’s also a Mentor at Talent Tech Labs, a tech incubator specifically in the HR space, and PresenTense, an incubator for Jewish startups. Dan is on the International Advisory Board of Jewish International Connection New York (JICNY) and is a UJA-Federation of New York Global Leadership Society Fellow. Dan lives in New York, NY, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bentley University in 2006.
National recognition
AOL’s 13 People You Should Follow For Your Job Search
Business Insider’s Top 40 Innovative People Under 40
BusinessWeek’s 20 Entrepreneurs You Should Follow
DELL’s #Inspire 100 List of Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
Details Magazine’s 5 Internet Guru’s That Can Make You Rich
Dun & Bradstreet’s Most Influential Small Business People on Twitter
Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30: Marketing & Advertising
Forbes’s Top 20 Social Media Influencer
Forbes’s 10 Top Thought Leadership Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss In 2015
Huffington Post’s 20 Top Recruiting Experts and Job Gurus to Follow
Huffington Post’s 16 Brilliant Business Minds
Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
Levo League’s 100 Trailblazing Millennials
Mashable’s Top 70 Non-fiction Writers
Mashable’s Top 20 Resources For Job Hunters
Mashable’s Top 20 Twitter Accounts to Follow For Your Career
Recruiter.com’s Top 10 Bloggers All Job Seekers Should Follow
The Muse’s Top 20 Twitter Accounts to Follow For Your Career
Workforce Magazine’s Top 25 Game Changers
Onalytica Top 50 Future of Work Influencers to Follow
What the media is saying about Dan
“A twenty-something personal branding czar.”
– Fortune Magazine
“A world-renowned personal branding expert.”
– TIME
“If there’s anyone who knows about the keys to building a successful career, it’s author Dan Schawbel.”
– Business Insider
“Known for his expertise in addressing the needs of a millennial workforce.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“He understands how human resources needs to adapt to changing times, especially when it comes to generational differences and changes in technology.”
– Workforce Magazine
“Top career experts in the country.”
– Men’s Fitness
“One of the nation’s leading authorities on Millennials.”
– Forbes
“One of America’s leading authorities on the workplace.”
– TechCrunch
“The key to success in today’s economy is replicating Dan Schawbel himself and mastering a niche so that you become a trusted authority on a specific subject.”
– TechCrunch
“Personal branding guru”
– The New York Times
“Considered a major player in the employment sphere.”
– Mashable
“Schawbel is a personal branding force of nature.”
– Fast Company
“The personal branding prophet.”
– Fox Business
“He is part of the new generation of Internet wunderkinds who have become so adept at spreading their ideas online that they write their first books and hit the morning show circuit when barely out of college. “
– Yahoo! Shine
“He provides daily insights into workplace trends and personal branding — and how it can help you build a career.”
– AOL Jobs
“He’s mastered what it takes to build and leverage a personal brand that attracts attention, interaction and high regard from an ever-expanding target audience — and he’s built a business helping others do the same.”
– MSN
“The inexhaustible millennial brand cheerleader.”
– The New Republic
“The self-styled king of personal branding.”
– Inc. Magazine
“One of today’s more dynamic young entrepreneurs.”
– Inc. Magazine
“Dan is the man when it comes to personal branding.”
– USA Today
“Dan has tons of knowledge at his fingertips. He’s a guru on personal branding and an expert on millennials in the workplace.”
– Miami Herald
“Leading voice on millennial career and workplace expertise”
– SHRM
What people are saying about Dan
“Dan has taken personal branding to a dimension a million miles beyond where I was.”
– Tom Peters
“Dan Schawbel is the new voice of the workplace.”
– David Bach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire
“His lecture was incredible and I learned a lot from him.”
– Ice-T, rapper, actor and reality TV star
“Everything he said I was agreeing with…I loved him.”
– Coco, reality TV star and model
“The champion of personal branding.”
– Alan Webber, co-founder, Fast Company Magazine
“Dan is the most prolific expert on twenty-something personal branding out there today. In just a year or two, he has become a major force to be reckoned with, hobnobbing with the best in the business and continually delivering powerful, valuable content.”
– Alexandra Levit, Author
“Dan is stirring it up and making it happen.”
– David Meerman Scott, bestselling author, The News Rules of Marketing & PR
“Dan Schawbel is at the “tip of the spear” as branding and social media converge and become personally relevant to millions.”
– Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, coauthors of Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It
“At a time when your brand equity is the sum total and composition of your search results, personal branding is everything. If you don’t believe me, just type ‘Dan Schawbel’ into Google.”
– Pete Blackshaw, Global Head of Digital Marketing & Social Media, Nestle
“A marketing juggernaut and passionate educator for young people who are trying to figure out how to leave their mark on the world.”
– Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels Of Separation
“It is because of Dan that I Google’d my children’s potential names before I named them.”
– Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours & USA Today contributor
“Anyone wanting to understand how to build a brand, personal or otherwise, could learn a thing of two from Dan.”
– John Jantsch, bestselling author of The Referral Engine
“One of the foremost authorities on personal branding.”
– Andy Beal, author, Radically Transparent and blogger at Marketing Pilgrim
“Dan is one of the foremost voices of his generation, and very inspirational to us.”
– Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk
“Over the course of his career Dan Schawbel has rightfully grown his reputation from being one of the sharpest ‘Millennial minds’ to one of the sharpest – and most sought-after – ‘business minds’ in the world today!”
– Bob Burg, bestselling author of The Go-Giver
“Dan has become one of the leading voices of the millennial generation.”
– Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst, The Altimeter Group
“Dan is a wunderkind and a mensch rolled into one.”
– Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet
“One of the foremost experts on the subject of personal branding.”
– Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
“An expert on how company cultures are being transformed by the influx of Gen Y’s in the workplace.”
– Baratunde Thurston, comedian and author of the New York Times best-seller How To Be Black
“An idea machine.”
– James Altucher, best-selling author of Choose Yourself
“The Millennial master”
– Shama Hyder, Founder of the Marketing Zen Group and Author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing
“He’s a wealth of knowledge.”
– Laura Lee, SVP of HR at MGM Resorts International
“A great author and management thinker.”
– Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor at Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“Dan is like this business media wunderkind but he’s a cool and down-to-earth guy.”
– Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
“An encyclopedia of information.”
– Tracey Pass, VP of Talent Acquisition, ESPN
“One of the smartest people in leadership I know.”
– Mel Robbins, author of The 5 Second Rule
“A genius.”
– Jay Shetty, Social Media Phenomenon
“A prolific guy. I always appreciate his work.”
– Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author
“Future-of-work genius.”
– Shane Snow, author of Dream Teams and co-founder of Contently
“I love what he’s doing. His positive messages are desperately needed in these seemingly dark times.”
– Ana Kasparian, co-host of The Young Turks
“One of the top content creators of our time!”
– Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness Podcast
“One of the most absurdly prolific writers of our time.”
– Tom Bilyeu, CEO of Impact Theory
“I appreciate his talent, empathy, and bright outlook. He’s helping so many people, and inspires me.”
– Dana Perino, co-host of The Five on Fox News and former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush