Faisal Hoque is a Wall Street Journal # 1 bestselling author and his books have also appeared on the USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. He is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter and serves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8 billion Fortune 500 company focused on U.S. national security. With thirty years of experience enabling sustainable growth for organizations like MasterCard, PepsiCo, American Express, GE, Home Depot, French Social Security Services, and the U.S. Department of Defense, Mr. Hoque is a globally recognized management thinker and technologist, contributing to MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program and the Swiss business school IMD. His latest book, Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI, was an instant bestseller and was named a Financial Times business book of the month. Mr. Hoque has authored ten award-winning books, including Reinvent, Everything Connects, and LIFT. He has won three Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards, more than thirty awards for his publications, and has been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by Ziff Davis. Blending Eastern philosophy with American entrepreneurial spirit, his work has appeared in major publications like Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, and on broadcasters such as Yahoo Finance, Fox, CBS, and others. Mr. Hoque is an active and passionate supporter of cancer research.