"The unique blend of Eastern philosophy and American entrepreneurial spirit have profoundly influenced my work and life."

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Faisal Hoque, recognized as one of the world’s top management thinkers and technologists, is an entrepreneur, business innovator, and author with close to thirty years of cross-industry success. He is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies. He also serves as a transformation and an innovation partner for CACI, a $6.7B company focused on U.S. national security.
His next book, TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI is scheduled to be released in 1st quarter 2025 by Post Hill Press, and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
As a founder and CEO of multiple companies, he is a three-time winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards; and a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author for his books: REINVENT (#1), Everything Connects (#2), and LIFT (#1). Everything Connects and LIFT are also USA Today bestsellers. He has developed more than twenty commercial platforms and worked with leadership at the US DoD, DHS, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Home Depot, PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others. For their innovative work, he and his team have been awarded several provisional patents in the areas of user authentication, business rule routing, and metadata sorting.

He has authored ten award-winning books (published by Cambridge University Press, Financial Times, HarperCollins Leadership, McGraw Hill, Fast Company Press, and others; his thirty-plus awards include Axiom Gold, Nautilus, Foreword, Book Excellence, Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards 2023 Shortlist, and others) in the realms of humanity, business, and technology. He volunteers for several organizations, including MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program. He is also a contributor at the Swiss business school IMD, Thinkers50, the Project Management Institute (PMI), and others.

Faisal has been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis Enterprise while Trust Across America-Trust Around the World (TAA-TAW) named him one of their Top 100 Thought Leaders. CIO Quarterly magazine designated Faisal Hoque as Mr. Convergencein 2008 for developing methods to integrate business strategies with technology decisions. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fox, CBS, the Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., and others.
He frequently speaks at international conferences, business schools, corporate gatherings, and business summits. His talks are focused on leadership, innovation, and transformation with particular focus on long-term sustainable impact.

For more info, visit faisalhoque.com or LinkedIn.

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