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Author Description Paul Leonardi is a leading expert in digital transformation, the future of work, and social networks.<br /><br />Paul’s insights come straight from the front lines. For 20+ years, Paul has advised Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits on how to build smarter communication, foster innovation, and manage the people side of new tech. Whether he’s coaching executives or speaking to thousands at a user conference, Paul brings clarity, energy, and a sense of humor to complex topics like AI, remote work, and digital fatigue.<br /><br />Paul has turned his research into practical ideas that have shaped thinking in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and (his personal favorite) Car & Driver. His award-winning book, The Digital Mindset (co-authored with Tsedal Neeley and published with Harvard Business Review Press), offers a playbook for professionals navigating a tech-driven economy.<br /><br />His newest book Digital Exhaustion (Riverhead Press) helps people learn to re-orient to their technologies in ways that improve their capacity for collaboration, innovation, and happiness whether at work or in their everyday lives.<br /><br />At UC Santa Barbara, Paul chairs the Department of Technology Management, where he holds the Duca Family Endowed Chair. He also founded the university’s Master of Technology Management program, a graduate degree designed to help professionals harness the power of new technologies to build better businesses, products, and services.<br /><br />Paul earned his PhD from Stanford University, and worked previously as a faculty member at Northwestern University. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, CA.

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