Christopher Wong Michaelson is the author of Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work (New York: Public Affairs, 2024) and The Meaning and Purpose of Work (London: Routledge, 2025), both with Jennifer Tosti-Kharas. Christopher is a philosopher with 25 years of experience advising business leaders pursuing meaning and providing work with a purpose. He is the Barbara and David A. Koch (“coach”) Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Academic Director of the Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas and on the Business and Society faculty at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Christopher and his wife Beth, an artist, live in Minneapolis and have three kids and two dogs.