
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.
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))

Eric Potterat & Alan Eagle
Master mental disciplines for peak performance, distilled from elite military, sports, and business achievers by a renowned psychologist.

Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle
Leadership lessons from Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley's legendary coach who mentored tech giants like Steve Jobs and Larry Page.

Eric Potterat & Alan Eagle
Master mental disciplines for peak performance, distilled from elite military, sports, and business achievers by a renowned psychologist.

Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle
Leadership lessons from Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley's legendary coach who mentored tech giants like Steve Jobs and Larry Page.
"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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