Charles Vogl

Charles Vogl is an adviser, speaker, and the author of three books, including the international bestseller The Art of Community. He has worked with Google in several capacities, including as a trusted thought leader for the Google School for Leaders, which develops over 20,000 Google managers. He is also a founding member of the Google Vitality Lab which works to navigate the big challenges in health and well-being.

His work is used to advise and develop leadership and programs worldwide within organizations including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, Target, Meetup.com, Dow Inc. and the US Army.

He has presented at venues including LinkedIn, Wayfair, Harvard University, Stanford University, and The Academy of Management. He has guest lectured in several Yale departments since 2007.

His first book, The Art of Community, now in it’s 2nd edition, won the Nautilus Silver Award for Business and Leadership. Drawing on both spiritual traditions and his own personal experience, The Art of Community lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective, and connected communities. His second book, Storytelling for Leadership, draws on his own experience as a PBS documentary filmmaker to distill principles that help those in leadership confidently share authentic stories and inspire emotional resonance. His third book, Building Brand Communities (with Carrie Melissa Jones) won an Axiom Business Book Gold Medal. The work speaks directly to organizational leaders that seek to connect people in ways that serve both members and larger organization goals.

Charles began his lifelong study of change making while a volunteer living in a Santa Ana, CA homeless shelter. He then worked on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later built teams to create high social impact media as a New York documentary filmmaker. His PBS film work won several international awards, including the Amnesty International Movies that Matter Award. All the work served as crucibles in which to learn the importance of and how to bring people together around shared values and purpose.

Charles teaches the wisdom and principles to build deep community and resilient relationships amidst uncertainty and profound change in a lonely era. His work draws on three thousand years of spiritual traditions to understand how individuals build loyalty, grow resilience, and collaborate on shared values. Building deep community in turn builds organizational resilience, attracts and retains members around shared purpose and values, and fosters innovation that disrupts industries.

He holds an M.Div. from Yale, where he studied spiritual traditions, ethics, and business as a Jesse Ball duPont Foundation scholar.