Faisal Hoque

Experience & Background

Faisal Hoque is a transformation and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience driving sustainable innovation, growth, and transformation for global organizations, including Mastercard, American Express, GE, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase, IBM, the US Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. For almost a decade, he has partnered with CACI – a $9bn Fortune 500 leader in national security – to drive enterprise transformation and innovation across mission-critical government operations.

His mission is to humanize organizational transformation by bridging the worlds of business, technology, philosophy, and psychology.

A serial entrepreneur, Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter, among other companies, and is a three-time winner of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 awards. He has been named among Ziff Davis’ Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology, and serves as a judge for MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation Program.  

Hoque is a best-selling and award-winning author of 11 books, including the USA Today and LA Times bestsellers Reimagining Government: Achieving the Promise of AI  (2026) and Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI (2025), a Financial Times book of the month that was called a “must-read” by the Next Big Idea Club. His 2023 book Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era was published in association with IMD and became a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

His research and thought leadership have been recognized globally, earning two Axiom Gold Medals and distinctions from the Nautilus Book Awards. He is a two-time nominee for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award (2023, 2025). In 2025, Thinkers360 named him among the world’s Top 10 Thought Leaders in Transformation, Top 25 in Innovation and Artificial Intelligence, and Top 50 in Leadership and Governance.

Hoque’s work has appeared in leading publications, including Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, Psychology Today, I by IMD, Big Think, and major broadcast media outlets, including Fox, CBS, ABC, and Yahoo Finance.

He is a sought-after international speaker at business schools, conferences, and executive forums.

Expertise & Interests

 AI, organizational transformation, innovation, human-centric design, governance, leadership, Eastern philosophy, entrepreneurship

Contributions to IMD 

Custom executive programs, guest speaker, research projects, writing articles, I by IMD contributor, events, media & publicity

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