Nilofer Merchant

Nilofer Merchant inspires fearless cultures.

When fear rules, ideas are stifled, innovation stagnates. Remove that fear and you'll see people thrive. And companies will have more great ideas realized. And our economy will have that propellant that enables greatness. Fearlessness brings results.

Nilofer's career began at Apple and she has since been a CEO, run Fortune 500 companies, led successful start-ups, and launched over 100 products that account for $18B in revenues.

Author of The New How, Oreilly Media's top ranking business book on setting direction so results happen. Contributor to the best-seller book, End Malaria. Harvard Business Review columnist on innovation and collaboration.

Founded and writes Yes & Know -- a blog on new forms of market power, social strategies, and ways to re*imagine our identity, voice, power in a non-hierarchical world -- because fearlessness can be infectious, but needs a community to spread it.