Faisal Hoque, recognized as one of the world’s leading management thinkers and technologists, is an entrepreneur, business innovator, and author with close to thirty years of cross-industry success. He is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies. He also serves as an innovation partner for CACI, a $6.7B company focused on U.S. national security.

As a founder and CEO of multiple companies, he is a three-time winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards; and a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author for his books: REINVENT (#1), Everything Connects (#2), and LIFT (#1). Everything Connects and LIFT are also USA Today bestsellers. He has developed more than twenty commercial platforms and worked with leadership at the US DoD, DHS, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Home Depot, PepsiCo, IBM, Chase, and others.

He has authored ten award-winning books (published by Cambridge University Press, Financial Times, HarperCollins Leadership, McGraw Hill, Fast Company Press, and others; his thirty-plus awards include Axiom Gold, Nautilus, Foreword, Book Excellence, Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards 2023 Shortlist, and others in the realms of humanity, business, and technology. He volunteers for several organizations, including MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program. He is also a contributor at the Swiss business school IMD, Thinkers50, the Project Management Institute (PMI), and others.

Faisal has been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis Enterprise while Trust Across America-Trust Around the World (TAA-TAW) named him one of their Top 100 Thought Leaders. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fox, CBS, the Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., and others.

He frequently speaks at international conferences, business schools, corporate gatherings, and business summits. His talks are focused on leadership, innovation, and transformation with particular focus on long-term sustainable impact.