Go from bottlenecks to breakthroughs with the award-winning leadership system top CEOs use to accelerate growth. Today’s business world is more complex, fast-moving, and stressful than ever. CEOs and top leaders face endless challenges: disengaged employees, stalled growth, high turnover, and an urgent need to scale—all while trying to maintain a culture that actually empowers people. Traditional hierarchies, management fads, or AI tools alone won’t solve it. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Without the right leadership system, your company risks losing top talent, falling behind competitors, or stagnating. You know there’s a better way to lead—one that doesn’t require sacrificing freedom, trust, or engagement—but you don’t have a roadmap. In Freedom at Work , Traci Fenton delivers the proven and award-winning leadership and culture roadmap you’ve been looking for. Freedom at Work®, a repeatable and scalable leadership and culture system for any organization, has been used by top companies around the world for nearly 30 years, delivering 700% greater revenue growth compared to the S&P 500 over three years for The WD-40 Company, Mindvalley, DaVita, DreamHost, Widen, Grupo Elektra, Pandora, Groupon, Zappos, and hundreds more worldwide. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Embrace democratic leadership instead of slow, hierarchical decision-making. - Align mindset, leadership, and organizational design to turn strategy into execution, while empowering people at every level. - Create empowered teams that take ownership, act decisively, and enhance team performance through organizational democracy. - Transform fear-based, hierarchical cultures into collaborative environments of trust, clarity, and accountability. - Turn leadership challenges into scalable systems that drive growth, democratic decision-making, and measurable results. Fenton’s method gives leaders the full roadmap to scale culture, develop top leadership, and deliver extraordinary business results. AI can automate tasks, but it cannot replace the human leadership and culture strategy your company must have . For CEOs ready to boost engagement, retain top talent, and create measurable growth, this book gives you the tools, strategies, and step-by-step system to lead differently—and succeed. """Ideals like freedom, self-determination, and democracy are too often shelved when we show up to work, where for some reason we too willingly accept a culture of surveillance and even fear. In this powerful and engaging book, Traci Fenton lays out how we can actually bring the ideals of democracy to our workplaces—and why everyone from CEOs to workers to communities stand to benefit."" —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When , Drive , and To Sell Is Human ""Centuries from now, when business school historians are seeking the source of truth for the undeniable renaissance in business thinking that occurred early in the 21st century, thinking that led to the flourishing of ideas, people, and profits in corporations around the world, they will find author Traci Fenton. Traci will be known as the indomitable soul and spirit fostering, over her lifetime, a movement towards freedom, democracy, and yes, even joy, in the context of work. Those historians will discover that every one of the vanguard businesses of the 21st century had well-worn copies of Freedom at Work: The Leadership Strategy for Transforming Your Life, Your Organization, and Our World on the shelves of their corporate libraries and the desks of their people. You, the enlightened leader, who has been searching for such inspiration and results, will have put this book there."" —Richard Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations and author of Joy, Inc. and Chief Joy Officer ""If you're not leading with freedom, you're leading with fear. That's the most striking message in Freedom at Work . We believe in the principles of Freedom at Work . Putting them into practice has helped us maintain our employee engagement of 93% and both grow our revenue and deliver value to our stakeholders."" —Garry Ridge, CEO and chairman of WD-40 Company and coauthor of Helping People Win at Work ""The brilliant Traci Fenton taps into a concept that is missing today—not only in workplaces, but often in our daily lives: freedom. Embracing freedom in the workplace won't just benefit your organization at every level, it will promote an important precedent that lets all individuals shine."" —Jamie Naughton Henriod, Former Chief of Staff, Zappos ""Freedom-Centered Leadership shouldn't be a novel concept, but it's unfortunately far from the norm. This book is a step toward changing that, one organization at a time, and it couldn't have come at a more crucial moment in our history. This book is as timely and practical as it is conceptually profound."" —Kent Thiry, former CEO and chairman of DaVita ""Imagine a workplace where people were trusted in their work