Find Your Workverse

This is your personalized guide to designing a work life that fuels you today and sets you up for the future of work.

Find Your Workverse is your personalized operating system for navigating the biggest shift in work in decades, where AI, human connection, and purpose come together to reshape what’s possible. Created for readers ages 15 to 28 who are exploring, entering, or redefining their place in the Workverse, this book helps you build clarity, confidence, and momentum no matter where you’re starting from.

Powered by groundbreaking research from Marlee’s Gen Z at Work Study, which draws insights from more than 80,000 Gen Zers and nearly 400,000 professionals globally, this playbook helps you discover what energizes you, tap into your unique strengths, and create a future-proof path that makes your work life meaningful.

Whether you're exploring new roles, switching directions, launching something of your own, or seeking more purpose in what you do, this is your edge:

• Collaborate with confidence alongside AI and human teammates
• Develop the critical human skills that set you apart
• Stay motivated, protect your energy, and drive change with clarity
• Design a work life that aligns with your values, purpose, and what fuels you

Inside, you’ll find practical strategies, real Gen Z stories, and guided coaching exercises to help you navigate your work life with clarity and self-belief. And you won’t be doing it alone: Coach Marlee, your AI coach, is here to support your growth and motivation every step of the way.

Workverse is your guide to building a work life that’s energizing, balanced, and true to who you are. It’s about harnessing your unique strengths and using them to shape a future that reflects what you stand for.

This is your time to create meaningful momentum, contribute with purpose, and thrive in a work life that’s unmistakably yours.

Michelle Duval has dedicated more than two decades to unlocking human potential, not only as a coach, but by helping to create the very fields that guide it today. Widely recognized as a pioneer of coaching science, she co-developed models and handbooks that shaped modern coaching psychology and has trained professionals in more than 60 countries.Her research has been equally groundbreaking: from exploring neurodiversity and generational change, to leading the world's first long-term peer-reviewed study into why some founders scale while others fail-work that has redefined how entrepreneurial success is understood.In 2019, Michelle led her team to develop original predictive data and linguistic models to power the earliest conversational AI coach-years before ChatGPT brought AI into everyday life. These innovations became the foundation of Marlee, the AI collaboration and performance operating system now supporting teams in more than 95,000 organizations worldwide, including Google, the United Nations, Disney, Canva, and Apple.Through it all, Michelle's thread of purpose has remained the same: coaching some of the world's most influential culture shapers-scientists, Academy Award-winning storytellers, Olympic athletes, and founders of transformative technology companies-alongside countless parents and everyday humans unfurling their own unique life journey.Her mission continues to unfold with one clear aim: to help unlock the next evolution of humanity, and to build a sustainable future where every person has the chance to thrive.

Dan Negroni is a globally recognized executive coach, keynote speaker, and leadership educator who helps people and companies unlock their full potential. As the founder and CEO of Launchbox, he has coached leaders across Fortune 1000 companies, startups, and high-growth teams-bridging the generational gap between seasoned executives and emerging Gen Z talent. With more than 30 years of experience as a CEO, attorney, and sales leader, Dan brings real-world grit to his work. His high-energy, no-nonsense approach has helped companies grow by more than a billion dollars cumulatively. He is also the author of the Amazon bestseller Chasing Relevance: 6 Steps to Understand, Engage, and Maximize Next-Generation Leaders in the Workplace. As a father of Gen Z kids, Dan has seen firsthand how this generation works, thinks, and challenges the status quo. Beyond the boardroom, he teaches business and human skills at California State University, San Marcos, equipping students with the tools to thrive in today's fast-moving Workverse. Whether you're a student, new professional, or team leader, his mission is the same: help you activate your potential, build authentic connections, and lead with impact.

The third co-author of this book is Marlee, an AI coach created by Michelle Duval and the Marlee team, built on more than 25 years of research into human motivation and performance. At its core is the world's largest dataset on human motivation-16 billion data points that reveal how people work, collaborate, and thrive. Coach Marlee was designed to make the kind of elite coaching once reserved for a few accessible to everyone, anywhere, anytime.Think of Coach Marlee as your personal coach. With Marlee's technology, you can: - Access AI coaching programs designed for more than 1,000 different goal types: from leadership to collaboration to personal growth. - Ask Marlee for instant guidance on questions like "What motivates my teammate?" or "How do I convince my manager?" - Explore interactive Boards that map your unique motivations and compare them to your team, your generation, or even global success benchmarks. This kind of support used to cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per hour and was only available to an elite few. Now, it's in your pocket.Throughout this book, you'll see reflections and prompts from Coach Marlee: questions designed to help you personalize insights and take action. Behind the scenes is the full Marlee technology; in these pages, Coach Marlee is your guide, challenging your assumptions, encouraging your growth, and helping you design a work life where you can uniquely thrive.