WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
Connect your workforce, improve engagement, and drive productivity to undreamed-of levels
Feelings of loneliness among employees are on the rise with 72% of global workers suffering from it. This sense of isolation is contributing to a real and growing mental health problem that affects both individuals and organizations.
In Connectable, you’ll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that’s happier, more engaged, and more productive. With more than a decade of experience spent helping companies lessen worker loneliness, Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen distill their methodology, showing you what’s causing today’s loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level―including yourself. You’ll learn how to:
- Identify lonely or burned out employees
- Build psychological safety within a team
- Create environments of belonging and inclusion
- Cultivate meaningful connections across team members (in person or remote)
- Build committed, driven, and high-performing organizations using the authors’ proprietary 4-step Less Loneliness Framework™
Jenkins and Van Cohen provide the perfect balance of science, statistics, stories, and strategies to help you move everyone on your team from isolated to all-in.
Discover what ATMs, cocaine, Red Sox fans, and time travel have to do with moving teams from disconnected to connected. Connectable delivers the information, insights, and actionable strategies needed to awaken a renewed sense of connection throughout your organization.
Ryan Jenkins, CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™),
is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker and three-time published author. He speaks all over the world to companies such as State Farm, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Liberty Mutual, and John Deere. For a decade, he has been helping organizations create engaged, inclusive, and high-performing teams by lessening worker loneliness and closing generational gaps. Ryan’s top-ranked insights have been featured in
Forbes,
Fast Company, and
The Wall Street Journal. He is also co-founder of Sync Learning Experiences (SyncLX.com), a learning and development consultancy redefining how workers develop professional skills for the modern world of work. Ryan lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife, three children, and yellow Labrador.
Steven Cohen, MSOD (Master of Science in Organizational Development),
is a global leadership consultant, executive coach, and two-time published author. He has worked with hundreds of leaders from organizations such as Salesforce, Home Depot, Komatsu, Bank of America and Bridgestone. He has spent his career helping organizations humanize their businesses by creating workplaces where people come first. Steven has been featured in
Forbes, Association for Talent Development's
TD Magazine, and
Training Magazine. He is also co-founder of Sync Learning Experiences (SyncLX.com). Steven holds a BA from the University of Illinois and a MS from Pepperdine University. Steven lives in San Juan Capistrano, CA with his wife and two daughters.
