Book Buzz from The International Leadership Association 2023 Global Conference. Author Michelle French-Holloway discusses her book A New Meaning-Mission Fit: Aligning Life and Work in Business.

This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to counter the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual’s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, the author recommends developing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work and then becoming passionate about them organically. The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as “meaning-mission fit,” and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for their employees to do the same.