Hello my friends!
I’m so excited to announce a brand new website at joshallan.com!
If you’re not already reading this there, I hope you’ll go check it out — it’s got a super fresh layout, dark theme vibes, bold colors, and a really fun new background speaking video at the top. Despite being one of the quickest website redesigns I’ve ever done, it’s also one of my favorites; it simplified everything dramatically and added a clear sense of focus to my work that feels really good with the tagline:
The Future Of Work Is Human Energy™
If my time at Impact Eleven’s Bootcamp in Detroit last month taught me anything, it was how essential differentiation is for, well, most things probably, but especially for speakers.
So, what makes me different from all the other Future Of Work speakers out there?
In a phrase, it’s the topic of Human Energy™.
And it’s not just a cool phrase; this has been my deep area of study for the last 15 years. (Here’s an article I did on this very topic for HuffPost almost 10 years ago!)
My obsession with Human Energy™ started way back when Invisible Tribe‘s subtitle became Designing An Organization That Doesn’t Suck. Of course, being an Enneagram 8 I have always loved telling people the subtitle because it invariably gets a reaction, but more than that I’ve always meant it quite literally. Organizations have largely failed their humans because of all their sucking — sucking joy from people, sucking time from calendars, sucking resources from the planet, and so on — and because of their treasonous lack of giving.
But what they suck most is our ENERGY.
Our work too often leaves us feeling battered and bruised, drained and exhausted… left with virtually nothing in our tank at the end of our workday.
And one of the worst parts is we’ve come to accept this as normal.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Organizations CAN (and should) be designed to NOT suck. They can and should be designed to give humans more energy than they take.
The future, as we should make it, should be one where we finally rid ourselves of energy-sucking jobs so we can get to work on the stuff that actually makes life worth living.