Recommendations

Creating new opportunities requires fresh thinking. With the Work/Life Flywheel model, Ollie Henderson gives you the system you need to make bold changes in your career and the motivation to share your ideas with the world.

Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret, When, and Drive

Ollie is an important and empathetic voice in the conversation around the future of work. His book will help us all navigate a better way to work and live.

Annie Auerbach, author of FLEX, Reinventing Work for a Smarter and Happier Life.

Ollie’s excellent book will show you the practical techniques of reimagining your life and career and reveals how much better things could be for you, if you can adopt his hard-earned wisdom.

Damian Hughes, host of The High Performance podcast and author of High Performance and Liquid Thinker

Work/Life Flywheel offers honest and practical advice from accomplished industry mavens coupled with candid reflections on their real experiences when trying to recreate themselves professionally and personally. A must-read for anyone looking to make bold changes in their career and at home.

Emily Balcetis, author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University  

If you want to reimagine what's possible in the worlds of work and life beyond work, then this book will give your brain, thought processes and imagination a fascinating and exhilarating workout to help you develop fresh thinking about how to create the best future for you.

Cath Bishop, Olympic rowing medalist, former diplomat, leadership coach and author of The Long Win

Ollie Henderson offers a timely and perceptive critique of the never-ending pursuit of work/life balance, and suggests a better way to build momentum in our personal and professional lives.

Alex Hutchinson, author Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

As people are beginning to reimagine work and reconsider their careers, Work/Life Flywheel is a brilliant resource to help you get started in redesigning your work/life.

Elizabeth Akanbi-Ogabi, author of Side Hustle in Progress

There isn't a person out there that hasn't thought about radically reinventing work and life. What's been missing is an accessible guidebook to transform desire-to-action, and action-to-outcome. Ollie Henderson's Work/Life Flywheel sketches out a framework for thinking about transformation, bringing the lessons to life with his own personal journey, along with expert insight from industry figures who have themselves gone on idiosyncratic paths to successful unconventional futures. Fantastic read, and essential for anyone thinking about career change.

Hung Lee, Curator, Recruiting Brainfood

We all know that the old three-stage life course of full-time education, full-time work and full-time retirement is not fit for purpose. But we also know that to make the changes to a more flexible and adaptive multi-stage life, we need to be bold and courageous. In this inspiring book, Henderson shows the foundations for this courage and shares the stories of those who have created momentum and energy in their working life.

Lynda Gratton,  author of Redesigning Work, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School

Work and leisure have become a false dichotomy. As Ollie Henderson shows using the superb Flywheel metaphor, done right, each can make you better at the other.

Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy, author of Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Work/Life Flywheel puts to bed the notion that our work-life balance is an either/or trade off: the two move in tandem, and this book helps us find that binding rhythm"

Will Page Author of Tarzan Economics and former Chief Economist of Spotify

If you want to redefine your life and work relationship, get connected to the wisdom inside Work/Life Flywheel.

Shaun Tomson, Surfing World Champion and author of The Code: The Power of "I Will"

In Work/Life Flywheel, Henderson deftly combines decades of wisdom to create a compelling framework for how we think about work and life in today’s complex world. Using insights gleaned from academic research, business leaders, personal anecdotes, and his own life, Henderson provides a conversational and practical approach to stepping out of your routines, creatively considering a new way of approaching work and life, and taking practical steps to make it happen. If you’re ready for change but aren’t sure where to begin, this book is a great place to start!”

Alyssa Westring, Co-author of Parents Who Lead, Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University

The world is changing fast, and life can be short – so we might as well start making it meaningful, today. This book provides a superbly pragmatic and useful take on how we can reimagine our career and life. A book worth reading and an approach worth taking.

Dr. Christian Busch, bestselling author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck & professor, New York University

Life is a continuous learning journey with feedback loops along the way to help us reflect and adapt where appropriate. The Work/Life Flywheel is a much-needed read after the world has experienced a pandemic that puts the harmony of our work and personal lives in question.

Andy Ayim MBE, founder of Angel Investing School

Henderson provides clear direction and practical steps to help you find the work/life harmony that you richly deserve. The Flywheel’s 6 building blocks offer an easy to follow guide for your journey.

Marc Effron, author of 8 Steps to High Performance and President of The Talent Strategy Group