Resources
Click on the links below for valuable resources on personal development, leadership, entrepreneurship, and conscious business/social impact.
Personal Development & Life Design Resources
Courses on Personal Development & Life Design
- *Crafting Your Life & Work online course (Gregg’s signature course)
Crafting Your Life and Work Course
Regain clarity, direction, and motivation for your next chapter, starting with a powerful foundation of self-awareness and commitment to your values and aspirations.
Assessments on Personal Development
- Passion Probe
- Quality of Life Assessment
- Strengths Search
- *Traps Test (Common Traps of Living) (FEATURED)
Take the Traps Test
We all fall into traps in life. Sometimes we’re not even aware of it, and we can’t get out of traps we don’t know we’re in. Evaluate yourself with our Traps Test.
Books on Personal Development and Life Design
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage
- Mark Albion, Making a Life, Making a Living
- *Martha Beck, The Way of Integrity
- *Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?
- Arthur Brooks, From Strength to Strength
- *David Brooks, The Road to Character / The Second Mountain
- *Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection / Daring Greatly
- Bob Buford, HalfTime: From Success to Significance
- *Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Designing Your Life
- *Kevin Cashman, Leadership from the Inside Out
- *Shirzad Chamine, Positive Intelligence
- *Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Jerry Colonna, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
- *John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
- *Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- *Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- *Hal Elrod, The Morning Miracle
- Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions
- *Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life / Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
- *Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
- Stewart Friedman, Leading the Life You Want
- John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal
- Bill George and Peter Sims, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
- *Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, LIFE Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives
- Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit
- Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis
- Kindra Hall, Choose Your Story, Change Your Life
- Benjamin Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now
- *Arianna Huffington, Thrive
- Brian Johnson, Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential
- Rnady Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle
- *Richard Leider, The Power of Purpose / Repacking Your Bags / Something to Live For / Life Reimagined
- *Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness
- *Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- *Tara Mohr, Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message
- *James O’Toole, Creating the Good Life
- *Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak / A Hidden Wholeness
- *Daniel Pink, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
- Jerry Porras et al., Success Built to Last
- Jonathan Rauch, The Happiness Curve
- *Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness
- *Emily Esfahani Smith, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters
- *Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
- *Bob Vanourek, Leadership Wisdom: Lessons from Poetry, Prose, and Curious Verse
- Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
- David Whyte, The Three Marriages
Blogs on Personal Development and Life Design
- Art of Nonconformity (Chris Guillebeau)
- Brain Pickings (Maria Popova)
- *Center for Courage and Renewal
- Designing Your Life (Evans and Burnett)
- *Gregg Vanourek (crafting your life and work: personal development and leadership excellence)
- Gretchen Rubin
- Hudson Institute Insights
- Marie Forleo
- Mark Manson
- Personal Excellence
- *Ryan Holiday (Daily Stoic)
- Science of People (Vanessa Van Edwards)
- Thrive Leadership
- Total Leadership (Stew Friedman)
- What Matters Most? (Psychology Today)
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Books on Careers and Career Change
- *Jenny Blake, Pivot
- *Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?
- Bob Buford, HalfTime: From Success to Significance
- Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Designing Your Work Life
- *Jonathan Fields, Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
- *Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, LIFE Entrepreneurs
- Jeff Goins, The Art of Work
- Chris Guillebeau, Born for This
- *Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
- Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron, Kelly Tieger, Do What You Are
Other Tools & Resources on Personal Growth
- *Crafting Your Life & Work online course
- Goal-Setting Template
- Goals Guide: Best Practices in Setting and Pursuing Goals
- Happiness Series (best articles on happiness)
- Passion Probe
- Personal Values Exercise
- Quality of Life Assessment
- Strengths Search
- *Traps Test (Common Traps of Living)
Quality of Life Assessment
Evaluate your quality of life in ten key areas by taking our assessment. Discover your strongest areas, and the areas that need work, then act accordingly.
Organizations Working with Personal Development
- 1440 Multiversity
- Center for Courage and Renewal
- Good Life Project
- HalfTime Institute
- Life Design Lab (Stanford)
- Modern Elder Academy
Podcasts on Personal Development & Self Improvement
- Achieve Your Goals (Hal Elrod)
- *Daily Stoic podcast (Ryan Holiday)
- Feel Better, Live More (Dr. Chatterjee)
- The Gathering Room Podcast (Martha Beck)
- *Good Life Project (Jonathan Fields)
- *Greater Good (Berkeley)
- The Greg McKeown Podcast
- The Happiness Lab (Dr. Laurie Santos)
- How to Be a Better Human (TED)
- The Minimalists
- Motivation with Brendon Burchard
- On Purpose (Jay Shetty)
- Oprah’s SuperSoul
- Own Your Future (Dean Graziosi)
- *Pivot Podcast (Jenny Blake)
- Reboot Podcast
- *Rich Roll Podcast
- The Science of Happiness
- Sparked: How to Make Work Better (Jonathan Fields)
- Tim Ferriss Show
- The Tony Robbins Podcast
- Unlocking Us (Brene Brown)
- Work Life Play (Aaron McHugh)
Values: Personal Values Exercise
Personal Values Exercise
Complete this exercise to identify your personal values. It will help you develop self-awareness, including clarity about what’s most important to you in life and work, and serve as a safe harbor for you to return to when things are tough.
Leadership Resources
- Leadership Derailers Assessment (from Gregg Vanourek)
Leadership Derailers Assessment
Take this assessment to identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness. A critical and often overlooked tool for your leadership development.
Assessments on Leadership
- Alignment Scorecard (from Triple Crown Leadership)
Blogs on Leadership
- How We Lead (Ken Blanchard)
- Jesse Lyn Stoner on Leadership
- John Maxwell
- Lolly Daskall
- Michael Hyatt
- *Triple Crown Leadership (Bob and Gregg Vanourek)
Books on Leadership
Company Culture Resources
Organizations and Experts in Leadership & Management
- Amy C. Edmondson
- Bill George
- Blanchard (Ken Blanchard)
- Bob Whipple (Trust Ambassador)
- Center for Creative Leadership
- Conscious Leadership Group
- CoveyLink
- Fierce Inc. (Susan Scott)
- Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
- Herminia Ibarra
- Kim Scott
- Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner)
- Leadership Forum Community
- Maxwell Leadership (John C. Maxwell)
- Simon Sinek
- The Table Group (Patrick Lencioni)
- *Triple Crown Leadership (Bob and Gregg Vanourek)
Podcasts on Leadership
- Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak)
- Fidelis Leadership (Mike Ettore)
- John Maxwell Leadership Podcast
- Leadership Biz Café (Tanveer Naseer)
- Lead to Win (Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller)
Entrepreneurship Resources
Blogs on Entrepreneurship
- Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
- Paul Graham (Y Combinator), archives
- Steve Blank
Books on Entrepreneurship
- Steve Blank, The Startup Owner’s Manual / The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- *Matt Blumberg, Startup CEO
- Gary Erickson, Raising the Bar
- *Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, LIFE Entrepreneurs
- Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness
- *Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs / The Innovators
- *Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
- Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start
- Derek Lidow, Startup Leadership
- Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work
- *Ash Maurya, Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that Works
- *John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B
- *Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation
- *Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
- *Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
- Peter Sims, Little Bets
- Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, Zero to One
- Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk
Entrepreneurship Resources
Podcasts on Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurs on Fire (EOFire, John Lee Dumas)
- Stanford eCorner Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
- Youpreneur FM
Social Entrepreneurship Resources
Sweden Startup and Social Enterprise Resources
Conscious Business & Social Impact Resources
Blogs on Conscious Business and Social Impact
- Acumen
- Pioneers Post
- Social Good Stuff
- *Stanford Social Innovation Review
- *Triple Crown Leadership (Bob and Gregg Vanourek)
- Triple Pundit
Books on Conscious Business and Social Impact
- Robert Ashton, How to Be a Social Entrepreneur
- Christine Bader, The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist
- Dominic Barton et al., Re-Imagining Capitalism
- Michael Beer et al., Higher Ambition
- Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, and Steve Zimmerman, Nonprofit Sustainability / The Sustainability Mindset
- David Bornstein, How to Change the World
- Alex Budak, Becoming a Changemaker
- Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing (Patagonia)
- Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley, The Responsible Company
- Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell, Sustainable Excellence
- Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Forces for Good
- J. Gergory Dees, Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs
- *Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, LIFE Entrepreneurs
- Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, Mission in a Bottle (Honest Tea)
- Jason Haber, The Business of Good
- Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen, The Responsibility Revolution
- Ryan Honeyman and Tiffany Jana, The B Corp Handbook
- Aaron Hurst, The Purpose Economy
- Fred Kofman, Conscious Business
- Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls, Jr., Mission, Inc.
- *John Mackey & Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, SuperCorp
- *Blake Mycoskie, Start Something that Matters
- Raj Sisodia and Sheth, Firms of Endearment
- *Lynn Stout, The Shareholder Value Myth
- *Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations
- Kyle Westaway, Profit & Purpose
- Muhammad Yunus, Building Social Business
Organizations in Conscious Business and Social Impact
- *80,000 Hours
- *AIESEC
- *Ashoka
- B:CIVIC
- CiviCO
- Common Future
- Conscious Capitalism
- Enactus
- Hult Prize
- *Impact Hub
- Lean Impact
- Mission Measurement
- National Institute for Social Impact
- *Net Impact
- Nonprofit Sustainability
- PYMWYMIC (Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community)
- Reach for Change
- Schwab Foundation
- SE Forum
- Skoll Foundation
- Social Entrepreneurship 101 course from Acumen
- Social Innovation Academy
- *Social Lean Canvas
- Social Really Lean Canvas
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- StartSomeGood
- *Triple Crown Leadership (Bob and Gregg Vanourek)
- Yunus Social Business
Podcasts on Conscious Business and Social Impact
Resources on Social Entrepreneurship
Sweden Startup and Social Enterprise Resources
These resources are curated by Gregg Vanourek.
Take the Traps Test
We all fall into traps in life. Sometimes we’re not even aware of it, and we can’t get out of traps we don’t know we’re in. Evaluate yourself with our Traps Test.
