FAISAL HOQUE

Co-Founder

New York City, New York, United States34 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple award-winning ventures.
  • Three-time recipient of Deloitte Technology Fast awards.
  • Bestselling author with impactful publications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in organizational transformation and innovation across technology and business sectors.

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Public AddressMedia ProductionDecision-MakingEntrepreneurshipManagementEnterprise SoftwareIT StrategyMergersManagement ConsultingBusiness StrategyTechnology ManagementThought LeadershipSDLCTechnology Change ManagementSocial Media

About

I’m on a mission to humanize organizational transformation — bridging the worlds of business, technology, and humanity. Through my companies, research, books, articles, and podcasts, I enable leaders with frameworks and platforms to align purpose, people, process, and technology — turning disruption into meaningful, lasting progress. As the founder of Shadoka, NextChapter, and other award-winning ventures — and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "REINVENT", "TRANSCEND", "Reimagining Government", "Everything Connects", and more — for thirty years, I’ve had the privilege of guiding leading organizations including MasterCard, Northrop Grumman, French Social Security, PepsiCo, GE, the U.S. Department of Defense, and other global brands. I serve as an Executive Fellow at IMD Business School in Switzerland and a judge at the MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program. For almost a decade, I have also partnered with CACI — a $9 billion Fortune 500 leader in national security — to drive enterprise transformation and innovation across mission-critical government operations. A three-time recipient of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500™ awards, my work has been featured in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, IMD, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, Big Think, Psychology Today, and major outlets including Yahoo Finance, Fox, and CBS. My 2025 book, "TRANSCEND: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI", was named a “Must Read” by the Next Big Idea Club and a Financial Times Business Book of the Month — becoming an instant bestseller across USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly lists. My just released book, "Reimagining Government" is an instant USA Today and Los Angeles Times bestseller. All proceeds from my books are pledged to cancer research. Recognized among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by Ziff Davis, I was honored by Thinkers360 (2025) as a Top 10 Thought Leader in Transformation, Top 25 in Innovation and AI, and Top 50 in Leadership and Governance. My more than 30 book awards include two Axiom Gold Medals, Nautilus, and multiple Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award shortlists (2023 & 2025). Deeply influenced by a fusion of Eastern philosophy and American entrepreneurial spirit, my work reflects a lifelong quest — to help leaders build organizations that are technologically intelligent yet profoundly human.

Experience

Imd

2 roles

Executive Fellow @ IMD Business School

Feb 2026Present · 1 mo

  • As an Executive Fellow at IMD Business School, I work with global leaders to translate human-centric AI, strategy, innovation, and transformation into practical executive decisions. By pairing IMD’s global research depth with my decades of hands-on transformation experience across business and government, I help leaders connect cutting-edge thinking to the real-world challenges of execution.

Contributor | Author

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Read my column @ https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/iauthors/faisal-hoque/. My #1 Wall Journal bestselling book, 'REINVENT' was also published in association with IMD.
  • IMD has been a pioneering force in developing leaders who transform organizations and contribute to society since it was founded more than 75 years ago. It is consistently ranked among the world’s top institutions for executive education and leadership development, including #1 globally for custom executive education (Financial Times 2025), top 10 worldwide for open executive programs, and #2 among European business schools (Bloomberg Businessweek 2025–26).

Psychology today

Contributor

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · New York, United States

  • Read my Code & Conscience column @ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/faisal-hoque. Psychology Today is the world’s largest mental health and behavioral science destination. It is the original and largest publishing enterprise that is exclusively dedicated to human behavior. While Psychology Today has expanded its mission and reach across decades and continents, it never cease to delight in satisfying humans’ innate curiosity about our favorite subject: Ourselves.

Thinkers50

2023/2025 Distinguished Achievement Award Shortlist | Contributor

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • I was shortlisted for the 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award for Strategy and for 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award for Digital Thinking. I also contributed to two of the Thinkers50 books, "Connectedness: How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World", and the "Driving Sustainable Innovation: How to Do Well While Doing Good". Every two years, Thinkers50 salutes the leading business and management ideas of our age with its Ranking of Management Thinkers and Distinguished Achievement Awards, known as “The Oscars of management thinking” (Financial Times). The Thinkers50 brand, built on the core values of independence, integrity, and accessibility, is admired globally for objective market intelligence, positioning Thinkers50 as the leading authority in management ideas.

Massachusetts institute of technology

Judge | Mentor, IDEAS Social Innovation Incubator

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Cambridge, MA

  • The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s 20+ year-old social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has enabled MIT student-led teams to apply their education and expertise in collaboration with community partners to address social and environmental challenges around the world. Through IDEAS, MIT students recruit a team from anywhere in the world and develop a creative solution in partnership with impacted stakeholders.

Nextchapter

Founder | Chair

Jun 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Global

  • NextChapter is a multidisciplinary collaborative research and educational organization focused on sustainable and transformational changes. The outputs of our efforts are designed to lift individuals and organizations to their next chapters by connecting seemingly unconnected dots. Our recent projects are focused on the intersection of humanity, business, and technology—all required to survive and thrive the tsunami of changes and disruptions caused by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), AI, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and misinformation trends.

Caci international inc

Strategic Partner | Innovation and Transformation

Apr 2017Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · Arlington, VA

  • As an exclusive partner for public sector, working with the CACI sr. management team to bring innovation, frameworks, and platforms from private sector to public sector for organizational transformation, technology migration, and innovation. CACI is a $9 billion F500 company whose mission and enterprise technology and expertise play a vital role in US national security, safeguarding our troops, and enabling our government to deliver cost-effective and high-quality support for all Americans.

Altea federation

International Partner | Chair, Research and Education

Jan 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Milan Area, Italy

  • Worked with the Altea Federation chairman and sr. manageent team to enable Altea-Nextea with business and digital transformation frameworks and best-practices for the Italian market. Altea Federation is a federation of companies dedicated to business and digital transformation projects. Nextea è la società di Management Consulting di Altea Federation e raccoglie l’esperienza ventennale di professionisti cresciuti al fianco delle aziende in progetti di digitalizzazione e innovazione. La mission di Nextea è abilitare la convergenza tra Business e Tecnologia e ottenere la massima espressione del valore aziendale e della sua competitività.

Shadoka

Founder | Managing Partner

Jan 2014Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Global

  • Shadoka Enables Aspirations :: Lead. Innovate. Transform.
  • Working with select partners, we enable sustainable capabilities at the intersection of humanity, business, and technology with thought leadership, education, and digital platforms for the future of work. Our Intellectual Property (IP) and accelerators enable sustainable and transformational growth. Along with financial goals, a common thread among our customers and partners is their efforts to make a lasting, social impact — be it through job creation, investing in people, practicing corporate social responsibility or funding innovation programs trying to bring about socio-economic change.

Fast company

Contributor | Author

Jul 2012Present · 13 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Read my columns @ https://www.fastcompany.com/user/faisal-hoque. Fast Company's Fast Company Press is also the publisher of my three books - 'LIFT', 'Everything Connects', and 'REINVENT'. Fast Company is the world’s leading business media brand, with an editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, creativity, and design. Written for and about the most progressive business leaders, Fast Company inspires readers to think expansively, lead with purpose, embrace change, and shape the future of business.

Stern strategy group

Public Speaker

Jan 2010Present · 16 yrs 2 mos · Global

  • To inquire about speaking engagements, please contact Stern Strategy Group.
  • A public speaker at business and technology conferences, innovation forums, business schools, and leadership summits, I have given speeches at the EU HR Director Summit, US Marines, Airbus, CEO Summits at the NY Stock Exchange, Global China Summits, Forbes Business Leadership Forum, MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit, BOOTH School of Business – Entrepreneurial Ventures, Chief Executive Magazine CEO Roundtables, Yale School of Management CEO Summits, Rutgers Business School, CIO Summit in Japan, Sino-American CIO Summit in Beijing, European CIO Summit in Monte Carlo, and CFO Magazine Technology Summit, among others.

Cross-industry for-profit and non-profit organizations

Board Chair | BoD/BoA Member | Investor

Jan 1994Present · 32 yrs 2 mos · Global

  • Over three decades, served as Chairman of the Board, Board of Directors member, and Board of Advisors member across multiple organizations. Led the formation of board committees — finance, compensation, and governance — and recruited board members from Fortune 100 companies and academia. Maintained direct oversight of capital structure, valuation, corporate legal structure, compensation, P&L performance, and long-term and short-term financial forecasting. Drove go-to-market and products/services strategy across portfolio companies. Advisor to Fortune 500 boards and management; active investor across technology and business services ventures.
  • For more information, visit @ http://faisalhoque.com.

Ge capital

Product Manager | CTO

Jan 1994Jan 1996 · 2 yrs

  • Designed, developed, architected, led, and managed commercial development of industry’s one of the first B-to-B/B-to-Gov e-Commerce platform with automated procurement processes, products/services catalogues, and payment processing — leveraging my innovation from one of my startups.

Dun and bradstreet

Product Manager

Jan 1992Jan 1994 · 2 yrs

  • Worked on cutting-edge analytics and decision support methods and systems for customer intelligence, sales effectiveness, and revenue optimization before CRM/ERP, Sales Automation, and Business Intelligence were hardly concepts.

Education

University of Minnesota Duluth

Computer Science — Management Science

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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