He is the primary author of the books Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work and Fired Up or Burned Out: Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity. He gives keynote speeches, leads workshops, and consults for clients of Connection Culture Group (CCG). Michael Stallard is an expert on how effective leaders boost team performance and employee engagement through increasing human connection in organizational culture. Written for busy leaders with little time to waste, Connection Culture is concise, inspiring, and practical. The 2nd edition adds profiles of diverse leaders who tapped into the power of human connection, questions at the end of each chapter to help the reader apply the material, and a 5-step process to operationalize connection culture. Connection Culture includes inspiring stories of outstanding leaders who cultivated cultures of connection, scientific evidence that people and organizations need human connection to thrive, and descriptions of ways to connect that include attitudes, uses of language, and behaviors. Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work, 2nd Edition (September 2020)Ĭonnection Culture provides a new way of thinking about leadership based on the universal human need to feel connected to a group (which is in contrast to feeling unsupported, left out, or lonely). The book describes a connection culture that helps people and organizations thrive versus “cultures of control” and “cultures of indifference” that drain the life out of people and sabotage organizational performance.