Building communities now for over 26 years, having worked with over 200 companies to help them build productive communities...from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.Founder and CEO of the Community Leadership Core, providing hands-on coaching, training, and accountability...all tailored to your company...that helps you to deliver clear, consistent results every quarter with less stress and frustration.Author of five books, including the award-winning 'People Powered' (Harper Collins) and 'The Art Of Community' (O'Reilly) and writes for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and others.Creator of the 'Community Experience Masterclass' and the 'Community Ignition Workshop' where he has trained hundreds of students in how to build communities. This includes people from a broad range of industries including tech, consumer, fitness, gaming, entertainment, medicine, non-profits, and more.Active advisor and investor in numerous companies and funds (including Redpoint, Heavybit, Boldstart, AlienVault, HackerOne, and many others.)Community Leadership Core comments:“CLC has become a core part of our company strategy. I completely recommend it for anyone who takes their community seriously.” – Adam Christian, CEO at Stateful“CLC has been immensely valuable, providing an excellent framework for engaging with my community right from the outset.” – Revital Barletz, Head of Community at Wing Cloud“CLC has led to numerous innovative initiatives that have build meaningful outcomes in our global community.” – Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem at CNCF“We are an early-stage startup, and the Community Leadership Core has been instrumental in helping us get results, not just with our community, but also with content, events, messaging, on-boarding, and more. Highly recommended.” - Kunal Nawale, Founder and CEO at SigScalr“Launching our first developer tool, we knew creating a community around the product would be important, but we lacked experience. The Community Leadership Core gave us the tools to prioritize our objectives and the support to execute on them.” - Phillip van der Merwe, VP Business Development at JourneyAppsIndustry commentsKevin Scott, CTO, Microsoft - "Jono Bacon provides timely insight into what makes us tick as humans."Jim Zemlin - Executive Director, Linux Foundation - "Jono Bacon is the proven industry leader in building productive and engaged communities."Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij - CEO, GitLab - "Jono is the worldwide expert in community interaction."Read more: https://www.communityleadershipcore.com/testimonials
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