About the Authors

Rex Miller is a five-time Wiley author. The Commercial Real Estate Revolution and Change Your Space, Change Your Culture won international awards for innovation and excellence. He is a respected futurist, frequent keynote speaker, and an elite leadership coach. His MindShift process applies a unique crowdsourced approach to tackling complex leadership challenges. Mr. Miller was named a Texas A&M Professional Fellow for his work in leading edge leadership processes.

The MindShift model invites diverse participants into a creative and collaborative process. This makes each book deeply researched, easy to read, and practical to apply.

The previous book, Humanizing the Education Machine, collaborated with over 100 leaders and experts to break the vicious cycle of reform efforts without change and shows communities, schools, and leaders how to lead transformation on a local basis.

More than half of MindShift's work is guiding organizations through change and improving project, team, and organizational culture. Recent clients include Google, Disney, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Intel, FAA, Delos, Haworth, Turner Construction, Balfour Beatty Construction, DPR Construction, Seattle Children's Hospital, MD Anderson Hospital, Universal Health Systems, Oregon Health Science University, University of Illinois, Texas A&M, University of Denver, and many others.

Mr. Miller is also a USPTA certified tennis professional, a member of the National Speaker's Association, and actively mentors young leaders. He believes leaders come from anywhere in an organization or community and hopes his work helps empower hidden leaders to step up and step forward to create positive change.

Phillip Williams is the president of Commercial Business Development at Delos and directs the business development of health and well-being services and solutions for the commercial real estate market sector. Delos is a real estate technology and research company focused on helping to create healthier, higher-performance places for people.

He has spent his career in the commercial design, engineering, and construction industry and prior to Delos served as a vice president with Webcor Builders, where he initiated and lead the Systems Engineering, Sustainability, and International Consulting groups. Prior to Webcor he held senior leadership and management positions with Southland Industries and Carrier/United Technologies Corporation.

Phil has a BS in engineering, and his research and industry affiliations have allowed him to stay at the forefront of leading ideas that have consistently been focused on people in the built environment.

As the industry chair for the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) through the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding executive board member for Eco-Districts (a nonprofit focused on the economy, ecology, and equity of development and redevelopment of urban centers), he has been able to help transition theoretical research for the commercial private and public markets for scalable adoption.

Through service on the Joint Steering Committee for the Well Living Laboratory (WLL) a Mayo Clinic research collaborative, his industry experience has contributed to the understanding and inclusion of health science for the benefit of people through the improved design, construction, and operations of buildings and communities.

Phil is a founding member of the Industry Technical Advisory Group for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory FLEXLAB. He is a representative from San Francisco to the United Nations Global Compact and served as the chairman of the San Francisco Mayor's Task Force on Private Sector Green Buildings. He is a member on technical advisory boards for several Silicon Valley emerging technology companies, venture capital, and research organizations.

Dr. Michael O'Neill is currently director of the Global Workplace Research, Workplace Strategy and Market Insights teams for Haworth, Inc. At the start of his career, he worked at BOSTI, a firm that pioneered the use of analytics to show how workspace design affects employee performance. Later, he was a professor of interior design and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Mike has a BA in cognitive psychology, and MA and PhD in architecture and human behavior. For his doctoral work, he developed software that models peoples' decision making during way-finding tasks within buildings, based on the biological properties of neural networks. He has authored over 50 articles, two books on workplace research and design, is a coauthor of an upcoming book on well-being (2018 release).

Mike developed HumanSpaceTM, software that estimates the impact of workspace design on the financial value of human capital and identifies the most important features. He believes that predictive analytics “made easy” can help organizations make better decisions about how they allocate investment in their office space – based on improving the economic value of their people. He is also on the advisory board of TableAir, a European tech startup (space sensors and user experience software).

Other areas of interests include cars and planes. Mike is a Porsche Club of America national driving instructor and holds a competition racing license through Midwest Council of Sports Car Clubs, racing a vintage Porsche 911. He also holds a Private Pilot license.

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