Keith Ferrazzi

Keith Ferrazzi

On a mission to help teams collaborate effectively and achieve exceptional results.

RANKED THINKER

Ranked in 2025.

LISTED

A 2013 MacArthur Fellow.

AWARD

Golden Gavel Best Global Speaker Award, 2018.

Ideas

Keith leads the Greenlight Research Institute, which conducts studies on team transformation and the future of work. He is a champion of ‘teamship’ – a reimagining of how teams operate and collaborate, shifting from traditional hierarchical leadership to a peer-to-peer model of co-leading and co-elevating. Keith also advocates for a peer-powered approach to implement AI at scale, based on a grassroots methodology. As the creator of the Radical Innovators Collaborative, he brings together disruptive thinkers to accelerate organisational transformation.

Bio

Founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, Keith has coached the transformation of Fortune 500 corporations, the World Bank, fast growth Unicorns, and governments. He is a business coach who challenges the way teams work to achieve breakthrough results through more connection and collaboration across silos, shifting from leadership to teamship. Keith’s work has been published widely, including in the Harvard Business ReviewWall Street Journal, and Fortune.

Content

Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship (Harper Business, 2024); Competing in the New World of Work (HBR Press, 2022); Leading Without Authority (Crown Currency, 2020); Never Eat Alone (Crown Currency, updated 2014); Who’s Got Your Back (Crown Currency, 2009). ‘How Elite Organizations Transform Good Teams Into Extraordinary Ones’ (Blog, 2025); ‘Find Your Black Belts Of AI: How Top Firms Are Democratizing AI Implementation’ (Blog, 2025).

NATIONALITY: American

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Verdict

Ferrazzi’s shift from leadership to teamship is a game-changer. Never Lead Alone provides a clear and powerful guide on how to create a culture of innovation and shared success.

Simon Sinek, author of Start with WHY

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