You’ve built a life.
Now make sure it’s yours.
For your life
Live Velvet makes space for reinvention, authentic relationships and the person you are still becoming.
Explore Live VelvetMaking room for
what makes
us human.
Through writing, conversation and leadership, Scott Beal explores what it means to live more intentionally and lead with greater humanity.
You’ve built a life.
The human side of
leadership and change.
For your organization
Explore the people, conversations and decisions at the heart of leading an organization through change.
Leadership & SpeakingExperience shapes
perspective.
Business and life both shape how we see the world.
Scott brings together decades of business leadership, life transitions and writing. His work returns to a simple question: how do we make room for our relationships, our sense of purpose and the connections that give life meaning?
Meet Scott
Live Velvet.
The Imperfect Path to Becoming You
What comes after a lifetime of keeping it all together? A candid memoir about ambition, responsibility, relationships and making room for yourself.
It is for anyone taking stock of the life they’ve built and wondering what comes next.
“I highly recommend reading this book.”
Ideas worth exploring.
Conversations worth having.
Explore reflectionsExplore connection, reinvention, leadership and the human experience in a changing world.
Start with Scott’s personal philosophy and published perspectives on business strategy and human judgment. Each selection takes you to the writing behind the idea.
The Velvet Way
Life & connection
Scott’s personal philosophy starts with listening, showing up with intention and making room for meaningful connection.
Read The Velvet WayScott’s personal philosophy.
Asking a better business question
Leadership & strategy
Drawing on UPS, M2 Transport and PathO3Gen, Scott considers how questioning the apparent problem can reveal a different opportunity.
Read Scott’s original postA perspective published on LinkedIn. LinkedIn may require sign-in.
Human judgment in an intelligent world
AI & the human experience
Scott’s contribution to The AI Transformation examines why greater access to intelligence still leaves leaders responsible for judgment, empathy and accountability.
Explore Scott’s writing on LinkedInFrom Scott’s writing on leadership and AI. LinkedIn may require sign-in.
A little more connection.
A little more perspective.
The Velvet Club is a place to stay connected with Scott’s writing, reflections and conversations about living and leading with greater humanity.
Choose what interests you. Make room for the conversations that matter to you.