Charles Vogl

Best-in-class businesses are carefully crafted communities of high performers. This is why they can adapt to dynamic challenges and contexts. Successful communities aren’t just happy accidents – they must be purposefully cultivated and developed. In this interactive leadership development conversation, author and executive advisor Charles Vogl shows how leaders can build tight-knit bonds that radically change how teams and collaborating departments respond to threats and opportunities.

In an interactive leadership development workshop, Charles will show participants how to redirect leadership focus to connect with the people critical for success instead of hoping old ways of relating will work in a wholly changed world. He will open a new vision for creating conversations that establish meaningful connections within an organization. Vogl will draw a powerful framework for recognizing successful performing communities and how they work. He uses real-life examples from both online and in-person groups. Participants will discuss how to apply the fundamental principles to their specific experience and realize their aspirations. Leaders will leave with concrete next steps to create stronger connections for themselves and others who are important for their success and maturation.

For Educators

Building a sense of belonging is one of the most important factors in a healthy community, and will often determine whether it thrives or stumbles. Charles is a frequent speaker at educational conferences and secondary schools. Professional development talks for staff and educators provide an opportunity for rich connection among colleagues; talks for students and community members provide an interactive experience that creates a new awareness of the power of the individual to make significant change.

About Charles Vogl

Charles Vogl is an award winning author, speaker, and executive advisor. His work reflects a calling to help leadership create connections and belonging in the most lonely time in organizational history. He is a founding member of Google Vitality Lab and has worked with leading organizations such as Twitch, AirBnB, ServiceNow, and Meetup and the U. S. Special Forces.

Charles began his lifelong study of change while a volunteer living in a Santa Ana, CA homeless shelter. He then worked on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later built teams to create high social impact media as a PBS documentary filmmaker in New York. He went on to study social movements, business, and spiritual traditions at Yale University where he earned a Master’s of Divinity as a Jessie Ball duPont Foundation Scholar.

He is the author of three books, including the internationally best-selling ‘The Art of Community: 7 Principles for Belonging’, winner of the Nautilus Silver Award for Business and Leadership, ‘Building Brand Community’, an Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Winner, and ‘Storytelling for Leadership’.

The Reaction

“This presentation felt like Friends School. I have been teaching at this school for 24 years and every fall and winter we would have a retreat and for the first half of my career these are the types of connections and interactions and workshops and presenters we would experience. And as a staff and faculty, it would bring us together as a tight community. Through our different heads of school things have changed, and it felt more like an obligation to attend these events, and we never really felt authentic connection. Tonight (because one of the newer staff members invited all of us individually to go out ) several of us “old timers” and “new timers” went out for beers and it was amazing. This event/presentation sparked invitations and these invitations breathed life into our community. Granted it was one evening, one presentation, one invitation, but it felt like a big change. Thank you!”
 Anonymous staff member

 “Charles’ work is powerfully insightful and by far the most practical guide to building authentic community we’ve found. We’re excited to invest the shared wisdom into practices that drive employee health and wellbeing worldwide!”

Newton Cheng, Director, Global health & Performance, Google

 “In an increasingly lonely world, Charles provides a well-lit path to authentic community….If you follow the lessons imparted by Charles, you can be very good indeed”

Eric Schurenberg, CEO, Fast Company & Inc.

 “Charles and his insights are truly helping me build community that both internally grow my team and externally grow my business:
Rose Jia, head of Growth marketing, Amazon Prime Now