Daren Martin

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About Daren Martin

I am the Culture Architect, as well as a Global Speaker, WSJ, USA Today & Amazon Best-Selling Author, and Advisor to businesses ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses. My PhD in Psychology, experience starting and running several businesses, and thousands of hours of conversations with top executives and frontline workers have helped me know what makes companies thrive and what makes them dive.

I take great pleasure in crafting high performing company cultures along with change mastery, driving innovation, and developing an owner mentality throughout an organization. Great leadership and a purposeful company culture are foundational to success.

I have traveled to over 40 countries, worked with a wide range of companies from differing business sectors including oil and gas, manufacturing, financial sector, healthcare, airlines, retail, technology, restaurant, insurance, and more.

I have three amazing children who I learn from on a regular basis. I reside in Dallas, Texas, and relish my many opportunities to be a difference maker in companies and organizations all over the world.

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A Company of Owners: Maximizing Employee Engagement Nov 1, 2015

by Daren Martin

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This quintessential Wallstreet Journal and USA Today bestselling business book from Company Culture expert Dr. Daren Martin has impacted thousands of people in all sorts of companies including PayPal, Verisign, Lockheed Martin, Southwest Airlines, Select Medical, Cox Media and more.

Lack of employee engagement is the biggest challenge facing business owners and leaders today. In this fast paced high impact book, Daren Martin delivers proven insights and solutions he uses to create ownership cultures in some of the biggest companies in the world. This quick reading, hard hitting, solution-oriented book is a staple in many top business leader’s libraries.

Using insights gleaned from years helping companies and coaching leaders, Dr. Martin teaches company leaders how to turn team members into owners. Areas covered include the difference between an engaged employee and a zombie employee, hiring and firing, why having fun at work is good business, toxic employees, the eight core attitudes and behaviors of an owner, and more.

The visually appealing graphic layout easily engages readers and leads them through a dynamic learning process. This book is intense, humorous, challenging, thought provoking and extremely engaging.

A Company of Owners was birthed from a hallway conversation between the author and the COO of a 20 Billion dollar company. The author told the COO, “You need to fire all your employees. You don’t want employees, you want people who act like owners.”

When business tycoon Mark Cuban was asked how important to the success of a company is company culture he responded, “Culture is everything!”

Employee engagement is at an all time low. To make matters worse, only 16% of business leaders say their culture is where it needs to be. Regardless of the size of your company, you will find ideas in this book that will be immediately actionable to improve your company and yourself. One employee at a well known Computer Retail store, quit and started his own rideshare company as a result of reading this book.

What if everyone at your company was empowered to...

Act like an owner
Be fully engaged
See the company as a connected silo free enterprise
Work effectively together
Focus on improving and growing the company

Many companies provide this book to all their leadership team and in a number of cases all their employees.

Scroll up and get this book today for you and your entire team!

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The Sink: Radical Transformation with One Small Change Dec 18, 2016

by Daren Martin, Walter Nusbaum

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Ever met a stranger who changed your view of life forever? Could one sentence change the way you look at relationships? Work? Maybe even your world? There are many day to day interactions that we brush off as unimportant. What if we saw more? What if we left the world better, in each moment, than it was when we arrived? Even if that meant doing hard things. What would that look like? What would that mean for your job, for your family, for your life? Consider what could happen if we took responsibility for not just our mess, but cleaned up found messes, even if it isn t ours. What could this mean for a company? What if you taught your employees to take initiative to leave the world and the things around them better than they found them? The Sink is the story of the small moments that make the biggest impact in our lives and our business, if only we pay attention. All it takes is one moment to transform and shift our perspective. Like the book Who Moved My Cheese, The Sink will ignite individuals, employees, leaders, and CEOs in organizations across the world to give more, pay attention to the details, and achieve results by leaving everything better than the way they found it.

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The Sink: Radical Transformation with One Small Change Aug 11, 2020

by Walter Nusbaum, Daren Martin

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Ever met a stranger who changed your view of life forever? Could one sentence change the way you look at relationships? Work? Maybe even your world? There are many day to day interactions that we brush off as unimportant. What if we saw more? What if we left the world better, in each moment, than it was when we arrived? Even if that meant doing hard things. What would that look like? What would that mean for your job, for your family, for your life?Consider what could happen if we took responsibility for not just our mess, but cleaned up found messes, even if it isn't ours. What could this mean for a company? What if you taught your employees to take initiative to leave the world and the things around them better than they found them?The Sink is the story of the small moments that make the biggest impact in our lives and our business, if only we pay attention. All it takes is one moment to transform and shift our perspective. Like the book Who Moved My Cheese, The Sink will ignite individuals, employees, leaders, and CEOs in organizations across the world to give more, pay attention to the details, and achieve results by leaving everything better than the way they found it.

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Act Like An Owner Workbook Aug 23, 2021

by Dr. Daren Martin

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How much stronger and more profitable would your company or business be if everyone …

Showed up positive, energized, helpful and enthusiastic.
Had a clear, empowering, identity that drove performance.
Focused on performance, possibilities, progress, and positivity.
Had an action mindset focused on making things happen.

This workbook is a companion to the bestselling book A Company of Owners. It is a 12-week program to activate the above behaviors and more in every member of the team enabling your company or business to be more successful in every way.

The learning, reinforcement, and exercises will enable everyone who completes it to truly Act Like an Owner.

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An Evolution at Work Dec 17, 2019

by Daren Martin, Will Bolton

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The Global employee engagement rate is at an alarming 15%. 85% of people globally say they hate their job. The number is only slightly worse in the U.S. at 70%. Most employees hate their job and so they drag themselves to work on a Monday and dance out on a Friday. The lost productivity due to low employee engagement represents a 70-85% silent tax on every business. Gallup estimates this represents approximately $7 trillion in lost productivity across the Globe. If the impact of low employee engagement showed up on the balance sheet shareholders would revolt and Executives would make “fixing” it their #1 priority. It is a Global crisis of epic proportions. Only 16% of Executives say their Company Culture is where it needs to be. Many CEOs and Leaders are frustrated, unsure, and even angry as they feel responsible and yet are unsure what to do to fix it. An Evolution at Work is a wake up call to businesses all over the globe that it is time to make a change in the way we think about work. It gives 10 very clear steps to take if you want your business to thrive in the new world.

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Whiteboard: Business Models that Inspire Action Dec 19, 2016

by Daren Martin

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Dr. Daren Martin has used the Whiteboard to spark conversations, drive change, and Inspire meaningful action in some of the biggest companies in the world. Hand-drawn by the author, this creative collection of illustrations, inspirational quotes, and savvy business models shares one purpose: to spark conversations and evolve companies. Whether you re a business owner, a manager, or individual contributor, use the thought-provoking drawings in Whiteboard to ignite, revitalize, and motivate you to new levels of performance.

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Beached Whale: Learning to Swim in the New Ocean Dec 18, 2016

by Daren Martin

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Companies and the leaders within them struggle to achieve results. With the advances in technology companies are either running successfully into this new world, or failing to keep up. Is your company beached? Stranded on the sands of past success? Slow and steady no longer wins the race. Beached Whale will equip you to evaluate if your company has become beached. Do you have a coordinated enterprise company, or do you have a company mired down in bureaucracy? You could be a Beached Whale company. There is only one way to find out.

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Real Change Now: Company Change Mastery May 15, 2021

by Daren Martin

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This book is a brilliant tapestry of a deep understanding of human psychology, workplace culture, business acumen, and real-world experience to empower you to become a powerful agent of real and lasting change. Do you want to move to the front of the line in influencing people, driving initiatives, and making things happen in a powerful way? Real Change Now: Business Change Mastery will help you do just that. We are living in times of rapid change and cataclysmic shifts. Industries, businesses, companies, and our entire approach to business are going through overwhelming change. Business as usual is a terrible strategy. Changes that will impact you in a significant way are happening right now. Competitors are making decisions that could benefit or hurt you; co-workers are doing things that could destroy your business or propel it forward; global economies are in flux; things are being invented that will change your life. You can sit idly by while change shapes your future or you can actively influence change to your benefit.Change management is painfully passive. Like a dam on a river, change managers attempt to control the amount of water flowing through the gates. Don’t be a change manager. Change Masters are active. They steer the river. Change Masters don’t passively react to circumstances, they initiate and drive the change. Be a Change Master. The ability to effect change is the most powerful ability on the planet. When you can communicate a vision and move people to see that vision realized, you are truly powerfulChange does not impact all people in the same way. Ten people may respond ten different ways to the same change. Some people seem to prosper, acclimate and do well even with difficult changes while other people flounder and struggle. When it comes to change are you a Billy Beaver, Olivia Ostrich, Suzie Salmon, Sally Squirrel, Henry Hyena? Real Change Now maps out multiple ways that people react to change ranging from sticking their head in the sand to helping drive it. Dr. Martin then maps out specific strategies for working with each of these different responder types. Real Change Now is a toolbox, handbook, and Change bible all rolled into one. Dr. Daren Martin uses his years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses to provide a roadmap on how to stop simply managing change and develop true Change Mastery instead.

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Love Songs to Everybody: A Collection of Poetry Nov 21, 2019

by Daren Martin

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Love Songs to Everybody is a collection of poems written over the course of 12 years. They reflect the authors journey through a divorce into an eventual rebirth. It is a true journey from darkness to light, pain to pleasure, struggle to joy. Well known for his business books, author Daren Martin expresses a different side of his creativity in this rich book of poems packed with intrigue, passion, humor, sensuality, spirituality, and ultimate self-discovery. The poems range from playful to profound and are sure to provide something for everyone regardless of where they are in their own journey. Poetry has a unique ability to cut to the point. Some of these poems deliver with the precision of a laser beam while others consume like a bonfire. Many poetry books are so obtuse or self-referential as to leave the reader scratching their head in confusion. You will find the poems found in this collection to be deliciously accessible and inspiring. A huge fan of poetry himself, author Daren Martin has been inspired by T.S. Eliot, William Blake, W.H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anna Akhmatova, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Brodsky, Pablo Neruda, Charles Bukowski, and more.

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