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Tim Leberecht is a German-American author and entrepreneur, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank and community with the mission to make humans more human and business more beautiful.

Previously, Tim served as the chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm. From 2006 to 2013, he was the chief marketing officer of product design and innovation consultancy Frog Design.

Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into nine languages to date. Tim’s writing regularly appears in publications such as Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Inc, Quartz, Psychology Today, and Wired. His new book, The End of Winning, was released in German in 2020.

In this episode, we talk about: 

1. How beauty and art shaped Tim’s childhood
2. How he paved a multi-disciplinary career in design and marketing
3. How Tim started the New Romantic movement in business 
4. Tim’s pursuit to find the soul in business
5. How The House of Beautiful Business began and expanded internationally
6. Unpacking the industry shift from human-centered to life-centered design 
7. Changing the traditional way we view business
8. Navigating the loneliness crisis in workplaces
9. What does it mean to create hospitable spaces and workplaces?
10. Practical advice to incorporate beauty at work

To learn more about his work, visit: http://timleberecht.com/
House of Beautiful Business: https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tleberecht/ 

Resources Mentioned:

The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself by Tim Leberecht - https://a.co/d/eVPDt6I 

Death Over Dinner - https://deathoverdinner.org/ 

The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff - https://a.co/d/3BPWRY7 

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