Alan Eagle
Alan Eagle is a business author and executive communications consultant whose work centers on leadership, management, performance, and organizational culture. A former Google managing director, he co-authored the bestselling books How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach, and later co-authored Learned Excellence, shaping contemporary conversations about leadership and high performance.
Biography & Author's Journey
Alan Eagle grew up in Northern California and later paired technical training with business education, earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Wharton School. Before he became known as an author, he spent years in Silicon Valley startups, working in sales and product roles at five different companies. That early period appears to have been formative: by his own public bio, two of those ventures succeeded and three did not. The experience gave him a practical grounding in technology, markets, and organizational life before he arrived at the role that would define his public career. ((https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/eric-potterat-phd-and-alan-eagle?utm_source=openai))
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Learned Excellence
Eric Potterat & Alan Eagle
Master mental disciplines for peak performance, distilled from elite military, sports, and business achievers by a renowned psychologist.
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"Alan Eagle is an author and executive communications consultant, helping leaders and companies shape and tell their stories"
— Big Think
"Alan Eagle holds a computer science degree from Dartmouth and works in executive communications at Google"
— The New York Times
"How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, is an informative and creatively multilayered guidebook"
— Kirkus Reviews
"Alan Eagle is the Director of Executive Communications at Google and co-author of Trillion Dollar Coach"
— PBS
"Alan Eagle is currently the director of executive communications at Google"
— Cambridge Independent
"Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, take readers on a guided tour through Google's inner workings"
— strategy+business
"Alan Eagle is a senior executive communications expert and co-author of Learned Excellence"
— Six Pixels of Separation
"Alan Eagle is a speechwriter and communications employee at Google"
— The Irish Times
"Eric Potterat's first book, co-authored with Alan Eagle, is both superb and timely"
— Kenneth Dekleva
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"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
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"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
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"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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