Forget the meaningless perks. Your team craves connection.

Work should be a place where meeting rooms spark energy, conversations matter, and results accelerate. To unlock this kind of engagement, leaders need to tap into the foundational experiences encountered in adolescence-experiences that first shaped how people compete, create, belong, explore, and grow.

In Work, Reimagined, award-winning leadership coach Christine Courtney guides leaders in harnessing the power of their team's core selves to energize, engage, and drive performance. Through the lens of seven foundational experiences, you'll learn how to build a workplace that feels:

• purposeful, like the best houses of worship;

• energizing, like the sports field;

• electrifying, like the stage;

• exploratory, like the playground;

• safe, like the therapist's office;

• expansive, like the classroom; and

• innovative, like the creative studio.

With a foreword by Lisa Bodell, bestselling author of Why Simple Wins, and with real-life examples, ideas, and action guides throughout, Work, Reimagined offers practical strategies for creating structured, meaningful experiences that rebuild trust and reignite the social side of work. If you're a leader, this is your opportunity. Don't just give your team more extras. Give them something more: clear missions, team rituals, moments of pride, shared wins, and personal growth they can feel.