Shane Snow is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of the books Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking, and DREAM TEAMS: Working Together Without Falling Apart, as well as the co-author of The Storytelling Edge. He is founder-at-large of the content technology company Contently, and is a board member of The Hatch Institute, a nonprofit for investigative journalism in the public interest.

Imagine the lessons you would have learned if you had worked directly for Steve Jobs. Or for Elon Musk. Imagine if you could have worked for them both. Anna Yen did just that.

Yen is the author of the new novel Sophia of Silicon Valley. The story follows Sophia as she's fired from an investment bank, rises through the ranks of a top Silicon Valley law firm, and eventually becomes an investor relations guru, first, to an eccentric passionate CEO who wears jeans and black T-shirts and later for a young genius founder who wants to build electric cars and rocket ships. If that sounds really familiar, it should. Yen worked under Steve Jobs at Pixar and Elon Musk at Tesla.

I recently interviewed Yen for the LEADx Leadership Show where we discussed her experiences working with some of the biggest names in tech.

Matt Rizzetta is the founder and CEO of N6A, a fast-growing marketing agency that has won numerous awards for their workplace culture.

Nina Baltierra is the Executive Director of the non-profit, Counter Tools. She shares her insights from creating her own one-page leadership user's manual.

Lisa Grimes is CEO of PurThread Technologies, cofounder of Habergeon and co-author of Remember Who YOU Are: Achieve Success. Create Balance. Experience Fulfillment.

Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, brand ambassador for Perry Ellis International, and founder of Boss In Heels. Her new book is Confidence Creator.

Stephen M. R. Covey is the former President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his direction became the largest leadership development company in the world. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything.

Erica Dhawan was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas”, is the Founder & CEO of Cotential and the author of Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.

Jon Gordon is the author of The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, The Power of Positive Leadership and his newest is The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great.

Erica Dhawan was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas”, is the Founder & CEO of Cotential and the author of Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.