At Work, Give Yourself and Others
Permission to Be Human

The book

Our Leadership Book Will Help You Create the Organizational Culture of Your Dreams by Permitting Your People to Be Human.

Creating a company culture where people matter is an intentional practice. To do this effectively, conscious leaders need a plan. In Permission to Be Human, MaryBeth Hyland, founder and chief visionary of SparkVision, provides step-by-step advice on how to create a sustainable business by knowing, owning, and living your company’s core values.

Clients & Audiences

When you Read MaryBeth’s Leadership Book, You’ll Learn How to:

Identify the factors that impact your team’s dynamics.

Lead your organization in creating a thriving, connected culture.

Empathize and relate to the human experience at work.

Empower your team members to lead in alignment with your organization’s values.

Ultimately, Hyland’s conscious leadership book is for every culture champion who is yearning for the tools to create a flourishing workplace environment. The process starts with uncovering your company’s core values and ensuring the entire business is in alignment with them. As a result, you’ll gain increased engagement, productivity, and profit.

This company culture book is not for those who are:

Looking for a silver bullet to solve other people’s problems

Not invested in their people and themselves

Hoping someone else can fix their culture for them.

This company culture book is for those who are:

Willing to start the deep work with themselves before they project onto others

Deeply invested in their people and themselves

Interested in learning through the discomfort of growth.

What People Are Saying

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“Having worked with MaryBeth, I’m thrilled to know her heart-centered work will be impacting even more people in the future. Her authentic actions, values, and words illuminate how we can make true cultural shifts to unite us through our shared humanity at work and beyond.”

Darlene Slaughter
Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement Officer
March of Dimes
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“The beauty of Permission to Be Human is that it combines the wisdom of MaryBeth’s intuitive gifts with proven practices about how diverse groups of individuals can take the journey together, particularly in times of stress, and embrace what once seemed impossible. “

Lisa M. Schroeder
President and CEO
The Pittsburgh Foundation
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“MaryBeth is a powerful, empathic and conscious leader who both lives by her core values and is here to activate more consciousness in the workplace.

In her book, Permission to Be Human she makes the case for using our heart’s wisdom more intentionally so that we can thrive at work today and for generations to come.”

Julie Reisler
International Transformation Coach
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“MaryBeth is an authority and thought leader in workplace culture. I’ve experienced the extremely positive results of the tenets of this book.

Permission to Be Human will soon become required reading for leaders looking to build people, teams, and relationnships.”

Dr. Charles Johnson-Bey
Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
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“It’s so clear that MaryBeth is giving it all away in Permission to Be Human – her experience, stories, process, and vision of the world.

I am confident that anyone that reads it will have them questioning what more is possible if they took time to intentionally align their values to their actions.”

Jennifer McDowell
Jennifer McDowell
Founder and Principal Coach
Common Good

Permission to Be Human: Book Clubs and Author Fireside Chats

Got a book club or want to start one? With 25 or more purchases of the Permission to Be Human, you’ll have the opportunity to have the author, MaryBeth Hyland, join your community for a candid fireside chat on anything that sparked your interest in her book!

About The Author

MaryBeth Hyland wrote Permission to Be Human as a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt like the underdog for caring deeply about people and their well-being at work. After a decade of culture change consulting and implementation across nearly every industry, MaryBeth synthesized her learnings and shared her proven framework on how to consciously build a values-driven culture. She knows that it can be lonely and overwhelming when you’re trying to make a positive change in any environment, let alone a toxic one. Her book is intended to cheer you on, help you with your mindset and give you a step-by-step guide on how to actually do the work of knowing, owning and living your values every day at work and beyond.