About the Author

Michael Hyatt is the founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, a leadership-development company dedicated to helping high achievers win at work and succeed at life. As the former chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, he is also the author of the USA Today bestseller Living Forward (coauthored with Daniel Harkavy) and the New York Times bestseller Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.

His blog, MichaelHyatt.com, is ranked by Google in the top one-half percent of all blogs with more than one million page views a month, and he has been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Entrepreneur.

Michael is the creator of several online courses, including 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever™ and Free to Focus™, and the online community, Platform University®.

While Michael loves his work, it is not the most important thing in his life. That position belongs to his family. He has been married to his wife, Gail, for thirty-nine years. They have five daughters, three sons-in-law, and eight grandchildren and live just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Web: MichaelHyatt.com

Twitter: @michaelhyatt

Facebook: facebook.com/michaelhyatt