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Anthony Tjan
Anthony Tjan helps organizations build people-first leadership and inclusive teams that drive long-term growth. Tony works with companies on character-based leadership, diversity and inclusion, and purpose-driven investment strategies. New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and venture investor backing women-led ventures.
Anthony Tjan is a serial entrepreneur, venture investor, and New York Times bestselling author whose work sits at the intersection of people-first leadership and long-term business building.
Tony co-founded Cue Ball Capital, a permanent-capital venture firm that has committed more than 50% of its investments to women-led and inclusionary ventures, a rate 20 times the industry average. He is also the author of Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Matters and a two-time TED main stage speaker.
Tony's approach draws on decades of founding and scaling companies, from ZEFER, a $100M Internet advisory firm, to MiniLuxe, a lifestyle brand that has created economic mobility for a predominantly female workforce from marginalized backgrounds. His track record proves that prioritizing character and inclusion produces compounding returns, both financial and cultural. He has contributed more than 125 articles to the Harvard Business Review and served as strategic advisor during the creation of Thomson Reuters.
Audiences leave Tony's sessions with a framework for identifying and developing good people within their organizations, a practical model for building inclusive teams that outperform, and evidence that long-term, purpose-driven investment strategies generate superior outcomes.
Book Tony Tjan to give your audience a proven blueprint for building organizations where goodness and growth reinforce each other.
Tjan brings rare credibility on inclusive leadership that drives returns, having deployed over half his venture capital to women-led businesses at 20 times the industry rate while scaling multiple exits. His frameworks help leadership teams identify character-driven talent and build cultures that compound financial and human performance.
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Anthony Tjan structures his sessions around a practical framework drawn from his book Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Matters, combining case evidence from his own ventures with a model audiences can apply to identify, develop, and retain character-driven talent within their organisations.
Anthony Tjan speaks on people-first leadership, inclusive team building, entrepreneurship, and venture investment strategy. He is a New York Times bestselling author of Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Matters and a two-time TED main stage speaker who co-founded Cue Ball Capital, committing more than 50% of its investments to women-led and inclusionary ventures at 20 times the industry average.
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