Bestselling author Dan Lyons spent a year teaching himself how to talk less and listen more, and ended up developing a set of practices, which he calls a “listening mindset,” that radically improved his life and might also help define the future of work. In his new book, STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World, Dan tells the story of his journey of personal transformation and explains how mastering the art of listening can make you happier, healthier, more successful, and even a better parent and partner. Better yet: organizations can do the same. Dan draws on personal experience as a business journalist and consultant to tech companies, plus mountains of research—including interviews with scientists, psychologists and even a former CIA case officer—to reveal how the superpower of a listening mindset can strengthen your organization’s culture and boost its performance. Dan’s past books include Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, a hilarious international bestseller about his time working in a startup run by Millennials. He was a writer on HBO’s hit comedy, Silicon Valley, and a journalist at Forbes, Fortune and Newsweek.

The big conversation about remote work is important, but there's a much bigger story that most of us are missing. New ways of working will transform society and the global economy, redirecting the way wealth is distributed around the world and changing the definition of the corporation itself, with all the usual disruptive implications for incumbents. Most important, we are creating new opportunities for people who have been shut out, and we're unlocking human potential. Dan Lyons has spent the past decade explaining how technology is transforming the workplace. His best-selling book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, became a Silicon Valley classic, blending a laugh-out-loud personal story with influential insights that have helped companies create happy, productive workplace cultures. Dan has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, NPR and the BBC. In addition to authoring six books, Dan has consulted with tech companies, written for HBO’s hit comedy series, “Silicon Valley,” and led technology coverage for Newsweek. His funny, energetic, story-driven, takeaway-laden presentations get rave reviews.