Book IWD Speaker: Rachel Wells

Forbes contributor (65M views). LinkedIn Top Voice (2024/25). Leadership and future-of-work consultant

Most managers are thrown into leadership without a playbook. Rachel Wells decided to write one.

For Rachel. leadership isn’t just a title, but it’s how you run your career, your decisions, and your leverage.

Rachel Wells built The Manager OS because she's been that manager. Leading under pressure. Fixing broken systems. Coaching leaders. Turning performance into a repeatable system.

In the first three years of her leadership career, she turned chaos into high-performance culture, across ops, sales, compliance, and leadership development. Her work has spanned government contracts, high-stakes KPIs, and corporate training.

Here’s the track record:

✔️Led the highest-performing team for 6 straight months
✔️Hit 200%+ targets, outperforming organizational benchmarks
✔️Rebuilt KPIs, sales ops & marketing for a failing unit → 200% customer growth
✔️Promoted 7 direct reports into management & lateral roles
✔️Directed 28 staff across multiple departments, achieving 98%+ compliance
✔️Delivered a 100% customer satisfaction score in a high-volume service environment

Rachel is known for thought leadership in careers, leadership, and the future of work:

✔️Forbes Careers & Leadership Contributor — 65M+ views (future of work, leadership & AI)
✔️Featured on Scripps News TV, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance
✔️Creator of the Work 2.0 Newsletter – Ranked Top 100 Global Business Newsletters
✔️Global MBA Scholarship Winner – Bayes Business School
✔️Podcast Host of Work 2.0: The Podcast (where she's interviewed CEOs, featured on Apple, Spotify, etc.)


Rachel helps experienced professionals take control of their careers, whether they’re landing the right role, stepping into leadership, or building leverage beyond one employer.

She works with professionals and organizations to:

✔️Diagnose project and ops performance gaps and career/business/skills maps
✔️Design 30–60–90 day plans to build confident, capable leaders
✔️Train managers in AI fluency, team coaching, leadership skills, stakeholder influence, and strategic thinking
✔️Equip HR and L&D teams with plug-and-play systems to scale leadership culture

Rachel delivers this through:

✔️The Manager OS cohort-based training
✔️Enterprise-level corporate training
✔️Leadership/executive/senior-level career coaching
✔️Intensive leadership masterclasses, workshops, and talks

If you’re a senior leader ready to build better managers, equip your workforce for AI, and create stronger teams, email Rachel: rachel@rachelwellscoaching.org

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