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Erica Keswin

Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist and author who writes about human-centered leadership, organizational culture, employee connection, and retention. Her notable books include Bring Your Human to Work, Rituals Roadmap, and The Retention Revolution, which have helped popularize practical, relationship-driven approaches to building healthier, more resilient workplaces.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Erica Keswin built her career at the intersection of leadership, organizational life, and human connection. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, by a father who was an attorney and a mother who was a social worker, she was known early as a connector, captained her high school gymnastics team, studied abroad, earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Vermont, and later completed an MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Her early professional path included work on Capitol Hill, at Booz Allen & Hamilton, at the Hay Group, at Russell Reynolds Associates, and as an executive coach at New York University’s Stern School of Business, experiences that grounded her later writing in both consulting and executive search. ((https://www.jwi.org/articles/erica-keswin))

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left to my own “devices,” (pun intended!) I wasn’t connecting—with others or myself
-About
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Because they know that the absence of intentionality is a recipe for resentment
-Why are you meeting?
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Great human leaders lead with the right amount of messy
-Bring your mess to work
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Unfortunately, left to our own devices, we aren’t connecting
-Make your time together count
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So let’s use it to make us more human
-Get human with AI
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CHROs, like all great human leaders, do three things exceptionally well: connect people to purpose, to each other, and to themselves
-How to make work fair
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Everyone wants to feel that their work matters—Gen Z is just louder about it
-Is purpose overrated?
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The default use of technology degrades connection
-My meeting with a great human leader
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Rituals are an amazing tool to help us do that
-3 o’clock dance party

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"Erica Keswin's heart-felt, accessible, well-researched book, Bring Your Human to Work is what we've all been waiting for"

Katie Couric

"There's a growing desire for meaning and authenticity at work. Erica Keswin's incisive new book shows us how to find it"

Dorie Clark

"In Rituals Roadmap, Erica Keswin advises leaders to be attentive to those yearnings and offers the perfect leadership response"

Cy Wakeman

"In Bring Your Human to Work, Erica Keswin shares the science and the stories of companies that get it right"

Arianna Huffington

"Erica Keswin knows a lot about how to make routines and relationships more meaningful"

Adam Grant

"Erica Keswin shares the science and stories from companies about how great relationships happen"

Charles Duhigg

"Erica Keswin's first book, Bring Your Human to Work, changed the way we think about workplace culture"

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