Achim Nowak is a podcaster and the author of four books on personal excellence, most recently the anthology The Difference: Essays on Loss, Courage, and Personal Transformation (Balboa Press/Hay House/2023). Influens, the international training and coaching firm he founded in Miami, has guided thousands of leaders from organizations such as Dover Corporation, Genzyme, and HSBC Bank to better connect and be more influential. His first book, Power Speaking (Allworth Press), remains an indispensable reference tool for professionals at every organizational level. Nowak’s work has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, NPR, and in the Miami Herald.
He is the recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award for his memoirist writing. His work is included in numerous collections such as Men on Men, Volume 6 and Gay Travels, A Literary Companion.
At MacDowell, he worked on Graham Greene Is Dead, a memoir set in the early 1990s on the island of Tobago, at the intersection of the AIDS epidemic, post-colonial life, and his love of the novels of Graham Greene.
Portrait by Mark Thompson
