Ricardo Semler Biography

Ricardo Semler is a renowned business leader known for advocating employee-empowered leadership. During his over 20 years as CEO of Semco, he transformed the company's management practices, making it more innovative, people-centric, and productive. He is the author of two best-selling books, Maverick and The Seven-Day Weekend, which advocate for leadership to adopt values of trust, self-management, and creativity to enhance organizational effectiveness. Semler has been a guest lecturer at prestigious institutions such as MIT and Harvard and has a solid digital following through his famous TED Talk and social media content. He also founded the Lumiar School, a Brazil-based school that promotes radical corporate democracy in early education. Semler's management style may not be for everyone, where managers determine their salaries and staff choose their bosses. Still, it has proved successful, with Semco now a $400 million business. Semler has helped reinvent several industries through his corporate innovation, and he encourages audiences to question conventional ideas and practices and offers fresh alternatives to business as usual.

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