Lead with Joy and Watch your Team Fly

Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations, is a successful entrepreneur and author of two best-selling books—Joy Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear. Rich’s passion for inspiring organizations to create their own joy-filled cultures has led him to address audiences across the world—through four continents and 18 countries (and counting) as well as throughout the United States.

Menlo Innovations, the custom software and consulting company Rich co-founded in 2001, has been recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for 11 straight years, and has received a lifetime achievement award for Freedom at Work from WorldBlu as well as five revenue awards from Inc. magazine. Menlo has also received worldwide notice for its unique culture, including recognition by Denmark’s Chief Happiness Officer as one of the ten happiest places to work on the planet. Today people come to Menlo from all over the world—nearly 20,000 in the past seven years alone—to learn about Menlo and how they can create a culture of joy in their own organizations.

Rich and his message of joyful leadership have been featured in press outlets ranging from Inc, Forbes and New York magazines to Bloomberg, U.S. News, NPR All Things Considered, and the Harvard Business Review. His videos for organizations such as Gemba Academy, VitalSmarts, and the Arbinger Institute continue to inspire audiences around the world.

In his spare time, Rich flies planes and uses his experience as a pilot to dream up new aviation metaphors for his stories.