Allan Cox has spent decades advising CEOs and their top teams. His focus is how true they are to clear purpose. For him. corporations need not make better leaders of their people, but better people of their leaders. Unique tools he’s developed for leaders include early memories exploration, style-of-life assessment, team-building off-sites and mission—stating a company’s purpose, uniqueness and method. He’s conducted day-long executive development workshops for graduates at the Booth School, Chicago and Kellogg at Northwestern Clients have included USG, Walgreens, Pillsbury, Northwest Airlines, Esmark, International Paper, Navistar, Motorola, Minnesota Vikings, Bacardi, Publishers Clearing House, Jones Lang LaSalle, PepsiCo International, and more. He’s written 12 books, several of them bestsellers. His passion today is idea-generation of a different order from a different source: POETRY. Poetry that’s accessible and finds its impact floating down corridors and within meeting rooms of a company. A poem can be a case study with a beginning, middle and end. By working through it, you can find an eye-opening repository of discernment, feeling, poise and renewal. Cox writes poems as case studies, far different from anything flowery and inaccessible. His poems work for group discussion such as project teams and set a pace for reflection and consideration of options not brought before the typical executive. Cox calls poetry the Cliff Notes of the human heart. Minds and tongues loosen up with the right structure. He’s now engaged in writing a series of small books of poetry that not only contain poems, but for each one, his commentary, photography and discussion questions launch an idea-exchange. The first book, “Change the Way You Face the Day,“ is out and bears the title for the whole series. The second book, “Begin Again,” will be out shortly. Cox is also Founder/Owner of the Linkedin group, The Practical Poets. Intrigued? Let’s connect.