ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our book is the collective insights and contributions of many. We want to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to the members of the Future Workplace network who were especially generous of your time, expertise, and insights on how you are preparing for the future of learning and working, with a particular call out to those members who hosted peer-to-peer sharing sessions during our research such as Agilent Technologies, Cisco, GE Crotonville, LinkedIn, MasterCard, and Microsoft.

Our book journey has to begin somewhere, so to Linda and Phil Lader, the gracious hosts of the Renaissance Weekends community, thank you for for inviting us to the weekend where Jeanne and Kevin first met to begin our collaboration of many milestones, including researching and writing this book. To John Willig for your continued support and guidance during our book submission process, thank you as always. To our core McGraw-Hill Education team of senior editor Knox Huston, for your confidence in our abilities to deliver this book and your guidance in seeing us through to our final manuscript, to Patty Wallenburg, for managing our work into a professional product, and to Casey Ebro, for leading us over the finish line for our first printing, thank you. Thanks to all the leadership editors at Forbes for allowing Jeanne to test early ideas about the future workplace experience in published articles and to the early adaptors of the concepts contained within The Future Workplace Experience, especially to you Mark Levy, one of the first to so explicitly evolve from a chief human resource officer to global head of employee experience and to the team at Cognizant Technology who the shared the why and how of your journey to create millennial friendly learning solutions.

To our Future Workplace colleagues Brianne Helman, David Milo, Dan Schawbel, and Tracy Pugh for your ongoing dedication and daily contribution to our workplace experience, and to Lea Deutsch for your continued support and diligence in managing the many tasks required to complete our book, thank you. And many thanks to the team at IBM, and in particular to you, Diane Gherson, for writing such an insightful forward to this book that shared the IBM journey to creating a compelling workplace experience for your global employees.

Many thanks to Achievers, Callidus Cloud, Catalyst, Degreed, Edcast, edX, Glassdoor, GP Strategies, IBM, NovoEd, PathGather, Pyxera Global, and Zoomi for providing access to your client relationships to uncover many of the best of breed examples we have highlighted in this book.

To our business partners who provide the ideas and resources to shape our ongoing research and discussions, thank you; Gianpaolo Barozzi for helping shape the direction of our Future Workplace Forecast Survey and to Dennis Bonilla, Billy Cripe, Jim Link, Ludo Fourrage, Lydia Frank, Dan Gouthro, Greg Lok, Dominic Lopaco, Yair Riemer, Julie Shenkman, and Ruth Veloria for the opportunities to collaborate together on uncovering new trends in the future of working and learning, thank you.

As we think about who has gone the extra mile (or kilometer) for us, we want to thank our families. From Jeanne, I thank Bob, Danielle, Deborah, and Matt, and even my Havanese dog who sat by my side while I was writing and patiently listened to each book interview.

From Kevin, to you Diane, a very special and loving thank you! To my parents, John and Una, who continue to wonder exactly what it is I do for a living, go raibh maith agat (thank you in Gaelic). To my Babson College colleagues, the Babson Alumni who contributed your perspectives to our research study, my MBA students, and BRIC2013 for your community. To AMP189 6B and AMP190 6A of the Harvard Business School, thank you for sharing your leadership journeys during the writing of this book.

Finally, to all HR workplace activists across the HR community helping organizations engage and inspire the incredible talent of the corporate world, thank you all for what you do daily!

Jeanne C. Meister, New York City

Kevin J. Mulcahy, Boston