About Joe

Joe Mechlinski, Founder and CEO of SHIFT, wants to change the way we work to transform the way we live. At SHIFT, a tech-enabled management consulting firm nationally recognized as a ‘Best Workplace,’ Joe helps leaders and organizations disrupt outdated norms, build engaged workforces and use technology to unlock human potential.

Passionate about equity in the workplace, Joe is also a partner at Conscious Venture Partners: a group that invests in minority- and female-founded businesses. As founder of membership community SHIFT Society, he leads small groups of executives in bold conversations exploring ideas and technology that revolutionize the future of work.

Joe‘s 2013 book, Grow Regardless, became a New York Times best-seller, followed by his second, Shift The Work, which motivates readers to attain meaningful work-life integration by defining one’s passions. His next release, Who Says, slated for publication in 2022, seeks to expose and challenge the hidden assumptions and authorities we encounter but may not recognize in our professional and personal lives.

Joe’s approach to business and life is rooted in the soil of adversity. Growing up with food insecurity in intermittent, unstable housing, Joe ended up playing football for Patterson High School in Baltimore, Maryland – a move that ultimately earned him a place at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University.

There, Joe discovered the power of finding one’s purpose, and he has dedicated his days to helping others find theirs ever since.