Author: Michele Wucker

Morag Barrett of SkyeTeam interviewed Michele Wucker on her People First! podcast broadcast August 16, 2021. People First! explores the people side of successful business and careers. We all have a story to share, a leadership journey that we are experiencing. Host Morag Barrett interviews authors, business leaders, thought leaders, and people like you to uncover the latest ideas, resources, and tools to help you become more effective at work – and in life. As it turns out, the secret is cultivating winning relationships. Business is personal, and relationships matter! So, sit back, and grab a coffee and LISTEN on…

My American Staffordshire Terrier, Billie, is a self-appointed therapy dog. She has a radar for dog people who want or need Billie love and walks down the sidewalk with a mission of identifying and connecting with them all. A few weeks ago, she set her sights on a handsome young man sitting on a bench next to the beach. As Billie did her thing, he and I got to chatting about the pandemic. I recall our conversation vividly now, as the delta variant ramps up, bringing new peaks in Covid-19 infections, particularly in places with low vaccination rates. Hair-trigger emotions…

Hanging on my office wall is a digital print on metal of a little girl with a paintbrush facing down a giant rhino whose toenails she has painted fuchsia. In black silhouette, the girl looks like a cross between a Banksy image and the Fearless Girl statue on Wall Street.

In the June 2021 issue of Crisis Response Journal, Emily Hough speaks with Michele Wucker about her new book, You Are what You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World, and discovers that the key to better risk literacy lies in trust, agency and understanding your own relationship with risk. “You are what you risk firmly embraces the strengths that come from transcending traditional boundaries andbrings together research in anthropology, journalism, strategy, policy, behavioural psychology, organisationaldynamics, policy, sociology, organisational typology and behavioural economics, with a sprinkling of theology and etymology. And of course, economics underpins the…

The impact of the pandemic on risk choices is particularly important when it comes to the future of work –both the immediate issue of workplace safety as people start returning to their offices and longer-term changes in the kinds of jobs people are going to do.

AudioFile Magazine has recognized the audiobook edition of YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK, narrated by Tavia Gilbert, with a covered Earphones Award. “This enlightening lesson is full of insights and strategies for seeing the risks we take more clearly,” the magazine wrote. Read the full review HERE.

we need to talk about the way that current U.S. tax policies treat risks by subsidizing dangerous risk-taking while failing to invest in heading off others.

Join the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin, who’s covered global environmental risks since the 1980s, and two special guests in a Sustain What discussion of personal and collective paths toward progress in turbulent times on a human-heated planed still wrapped in a pandemic. Watch the video episode, which first aired April 19, 2021, below: Guests:- Bestselling author Michele Wucker, whose new book, “You Are What You Risk – The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World,” lays out strategies for understanding one’s own risk reflexes to maximize opportunity amid uncertainty. Kimberly Nicholas, a professor of sustainability science who has…

The Milwaukee-based Porchlight Books has named YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World an Editor’s Choice selection. “I remember reading Wucker’s book The Gray Rhino in early 2016 and thinking, “there is something different here.” She is from Wisconsin, and there was something about her voice that felt familiar, but her book didn’t fit neatly into any category. It was a topic that traversed the globe but was intensely personal at the same time. If I could describe the topic of that book in one word, it would be reality,” Dylan Schleicher writes in his Editor’s Choice review of YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK for Porchlight Books. “Beyond understanding risk on a…

“There are three big, global threats that keep Michele Wucker, a risk expert, up at night: Inequality, financial fragility (that is, the chance of another economic meltdown), and the climate crisis. And all of these are connected, she says,” Kate Yoder writes in Grist. The April 9, 2021 article, ” ‘The world is getting scarier’: How climate change multiplies risk,” profiles Gray Rhino & Company founder and CEO Michele Wucker and gives highlights of her new book, YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World. “The book doesn’t fit easily in any category:…