The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius

Liz Tran is the founder of the AQ Labs and a leadership coach to CEOs and founders of some of the world’s fastest-growing companies. She is also the author of The Karma of Success, and her work has been featured by the Today Show, New Yorker, New York Times, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and other publications. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City and Norfolk, Connecticut.

Fulfill your innermost dreams and ambitions by turning up the volume on your intuition and re-connecting with your Inner Genius. 
 
Executive coach Liz Tran asks you to train yourself to listen to and be guided by your innermost voice. From tech to spiritual leadership and executive coaching, Tran has charted her own path by learning how to tune into her intuition and be true to her Inner Genius. Informed by ancient sources of wisdom like Zen, Reiki, astrology, and Stoicism, The Karma of Success invites you to validate the unique goals and ambitions you set for yourself and ultimately, are destined to achieve. 
 
You'll learn the Four Pillars of Spiritual Strategy - inquiring inward, manifesting mindfully, enriching your energy, and becoming brilliant - and be guided by the stories of people who have looked inward to find meaning and success. So whether you're trying to start your own business, heal your inner child, or just figure out how to get through the next Mercury in retrograde, The Karma of Success will help you find your way.

Liz Tran

We’re not distracted anymore—we’re disoriented. And right on time, Liz Tran gives us a gift: a framework for living with agility instead of rigidity. AQ does not ask us to do more, achieve more, or accumulate more: It invites us to strip away the illusion of stability and embrace the intelligence that matters most in times of change.

Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism and Effortless

As technology transforms the workplace, Liz Tran shows how every person can harness agility to thrive in times of change. Practical, inspiring, and impossible to ignore, AQ is the ultimate playbook for the future of work.

Fiona Cook, international employee experience at Apple

A practical guide to navigating uncertainty. . . . [Tran] astutely pinpoints how resistance to change holds people back. This will inspire readers to become more comfortable with discomfort.

[AQ] is well written, with plenty of real-world examples of individuals who have successfully navigated significant changes in their lives.

A New Kind of Intelligence for a World that's Always Changing

You’ve heard of IQ and EQ. But in today’s world, they’re no longer enough. We need the Agility Quotient (AQ). 
 
In a time defined by nonstop disruptions, when jobs vanish overnight, industries evolve in months, and yesterday’s rules no longer apply, AQ—the Agility Quotient—is the intelligence you need to handle change, uncertainty, and the unknown. The good news is that, with the right toolkit, you can grow your agility and learn to navigate a world of increasing instability. 
 
Drawing on leadership coach and former venture capitalist Liz Tran’s work with over 200 successful founders, executives, and dozens of companies and organizations, AQ reveals a model for how high-performing teams and managers adapt to uncertainty. Tran will show you how to cultivate 'durable skills,' essential human abilities that remain valuable no matter what the future holds. With the book’s Agility Archetype assessment, the book personalises the AQ journey to every kind of individual. No matter their experience level or ambitions. 
 
Written with conversational flair and practical advice, AQ offers readers a wealth of resources, including:<ul><li>Tools to rebuild confidence for when you’re bombarded by life’s curveballs or feeling burned out Actionable steps for making a big shift, even when you feel stuck.</li></ul><ul><li>Advice on finding clarity in moments of professional turbulence.</li></ul> 
AQ also takes readers behind the scenes at companies, from NVIDIA and Microsoft to rising start-ups like Lex, to see AQ in action. You’ll also meet trailblazers like Maggie Lena Walker, the first female bank president in American history, and Emile-Maurice Hermès, who transformed Hermès into a global luxury powerhouse. 
 
As the adage goes, 'the only certain thing is change.' AQ is the critical intelligence for our unpredictable future.

Liz Tran

Praise for AQ

We’re not distracted anymore—we’re disoriented. And right on time, Liz Tran gives us a gift: a framework for living with agility instead of rigidity. AQ does not ask us to do more, achieve more, or accumul ...

As technology transforms the workplace, Liz Tran shows how every person can harness agility to thrive in times of change. Practical, inspiring, and impossible to ignore, AQ is the ultimate playbook for the ...

A practical guide to navigating uncertainty. . . . [Tran] astutely pinpoints how resistance to change holds people back. This will inspire readers to become more comfortable with discomfort.

We’re not distracted anymore—we’re disoriented. And right on time, Liz Tran gives us a gift: a framework for living with agility instead of rigidity. AQ does not ask us to do more, achieve more, or accumul ...

As technology transforms the workplace, Liz Tran shows how every person can harness agility to thrive in times of change. Practical, inspiring, and impossible to ignore, AQ is the ultimate playbook for the ...

A practical guide to navigating uncertainty. . . . [Tran] astutely pinpoints how resistance to change holds people back. This will inspire readers to become more comfortable with discomfort.

We’re not distracted anymore—we’re disoriented. And right on time, Liz Tran gives us a gift: a framework for living with agility instead of rigidity. AQ does not ask us to do more, achieve more, or accumul ...

As technology transforms the workplace, Liz Tran shows how every person can harness agility to thrive in times of change. Practical, inspiring, and impossible to ignore, AQ is the ultimate playbook for the ...

A practical guide to navigating uncertainty. . . . [Tran] astutely pinpoints how resistance to change holds people back. This will inspire readers to become more comfortable with discomfort.

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