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Product Description "Trust is a choice. It's not the easy path, but it's the one that matters. Lisa and Rick share a generous and powerful manifesto that can help us get there."--Seth Godin, founder, altMBA A practical and actionable guidebook for understanding and building real trust with others and within ourselves Work isn’t transactional; it’s relational. And all relationships are built on trust. When trust is strong, anything is possible. Ignore building trust and opportunities will be lost. Never before has trust been so important in moving our world forward and creating the conditions for meaningful and sustainable change. While it takes effort and practice, everyone can develop the practical leadership skills, habits, and mindset needed to earn, strengthen, extend, and even restore trust. In The Future is Trust, Rick Kitagawa and Lisa Lambert draw on their experience as global organizational design consultants, leadership coaches, and facilitators and share their practical, inclusive, and actionable framework for building trust with yourself, with others, and at scale. Their work sheds light on: Why Trust: Why now, what’s changed, and what do we have without trust? What is Trust: The act of trusting--how it inspires belonging, resilience, and collaboration. How to Build Trust: Whether with ourselves or others, the foundational, practical tools to wire all of our connections for trust. The Future is Trust creates the conditions for enduring change, bending culture, and shaping the future of organizations and communities. It will inspire readers to live their learnings and become the Trust-Centered Leader we need to architect a brighter tomorrow. Review "Trust is a choice. It's not the easy path, but it's the one that matters. Lisa and Rick share a generous and powerful manifesto that can help us get there." - Seth Godin, Founder, altMBA "Trust seems really ephemeral and intangible, but Rick and Lisa not only show us how real it is, but also provide a practical way forward towards building and repairing it. If you learn to build trust, you can learn to build anything." - Graham Ballachey, Vice President of Engineering, American Lithium Corp. "This is a thoroughly motivating overview of the power of trust to shape our relationships and organizations. This is a perfect book for anyone who wants to understand trust better, develop trust-centered skills, heal from trust issues, and get better at developing trust in their personal and professional relationships." - Kat Vellos, speaker and author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships "Trust is the invisible currency of success and wellbeing. Its role is heightened in a world with increasing interactions between humans, machines and systems, and their creators. Lisa and Rick provide a convincing case and a thought-provoking guide on trust." - Vijay Kasireddy, Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft "Trust is everything, yet we often take it for granted - that is until we need it most. Not only do Rick and Lisa present a compelling human and business case for leaders to invest in building trust, they also provide a practical and transformative approach to doing so." - Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS, Founder and Executive Director of Health Justice "The Future Is Trust by Lisa Lambert and Rick Kitagawa is deceptively short, because it delivers a powerful message about the core of human relationships. The authors waste no time or space in getting to the core of why Trust is so essential in our workplace and society today, and more importantly, how to earn it." - Stacy Slattery Richards, JD, Owner and CEO at OysterReef Coaching "In legacy organizations, the coin of the realm is power. In collaborative networks, the coin of the realm is trust. If you find yourself in a legacy organization desperately moving toward agile, adaptive, network-like structures, Rick and Lisa can show you why trust matters, and how to gain a capacity for buil