PRAISE FOR ELEVATE YOUR TEAM

“A team that reaches its full capacity is a force to be reckoned with! Robert Glazer provides an evidence-based road map for achieving this goal.”

Cal Newport, New York Times Bestselling Author of A World Without Email and Deep Work

“As a leader in a disruptive industry, it’s often a tough balance to manage and grow your team at the same speed and scale as what the organization requires. Elevate Your Team is a great framework for leaders who are growing their teams in an ever-changing, quick-paced environment to meet the needs for today while building the capabilities and workforce needed for tomorrow.”

Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox

“Business leadership isn’t just about building companies—it’s about ‘Working Together’ to create value for all of the stakeholders and the greater good. With Elevate Your Team, Glazer shares an innovative approach that will help your people level up and ‘Work Together’ to become the leaders that the organization will need tomorrow.”

—Alan

Mulally, Former President and CEO of the Ford Motor Company & Former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

“If you want to supercharge your team’s capacity, this book is a must-read. It’s filled with powerful frameworks and practical tools, wrapped up in Glazer’s inspiring style. An essential book for your leadership library.”

—Alisa Cohn, Executive Coach, author of From Start-up to Grown-up

“Robert Glazer offers a valuable alternative to the Silicon Valley playbook of working punishing hours and growing by churning through talent. Elevate Your Team is a masterclass on how to build a business culture that builds people holistically, and how to help your team reach their full potential and become leaders themselves.”

Anna Fieler, Board Director, Shake Shack, J. Crew Group and Quinstreet and Former CMO, PopSugar

“Every leader’s top priority should be helping other’s grow. Elevate Your Team is the playbook you need to grow as a leader, help your team reach their full potential, and leave a leadership legacy by giving you actionable tactics to train the next generation of leaders at your organization.”

Ayele Shakur, Former CEO of BUILD and President, Redstone Foundations

“Elevate Your Team is a new way to think about culture and talent development. Learn how to play the long-game with your company culture and discover actionable steps to build your team’s capacity, help your people reach their full potential, and train the future leaders of your organization.”

—Dorie Clark, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Long Game and Executive Education Faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

“Elevate Your Team isn’t the same old tired management playbook you’ve read many times before—it’s a new perspective on business leadership and talent development. Glazer shares how to build the team’s capacity holistically, help people reach their full potential, and develop the organization’s next generation of leaders.”

JeVon McCormick, President, and CEO of Scribe Media, Bestselling Author of Modern Leader

“Any leader can do $10,000/hour work by building and leading a highly effective team. Elevate Your Team won’t just help you improve as a leader and scale your team; it will also help you create a self-reinforcing flywheel within your organization by giving you the tools you need to train and nurture the next generation of leaders at your organization.”

—Khe Hy, “Oprah For Millennials” and Founder of Rad Reads

“Elevate Your Team is the blueprint for a better form of organizational leadership — one where leaders help their people grow at the same rate as the business, lead their teams to achieve more in all areas of life, and eventually coach and train their own successors. This is a must-read for any leader!”

—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times Bestselling Author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Most companies want to grow. But what if company growth is burning through your people? Robert Glazer, a proven culture and capacity-builder, answers that question in Elevate Your Team by sharing a talent development strategy that builds organizations by building people. If you are scaling a company, this engaging and elegant book is a must read.”

Whitney Johnson, CEO Disruption Advisors, Top Ten Management Thinker Globally (Thinkers50), Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Smart Growth

—Asheesh Advani, President and CEO, JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide

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