Tom Vander Well is a writer, speaker, researcher, and storyteller who has spent more than three decades listening closely to people. As founder of Intelligentics, he has analyzed more than 100,000 customer conversations across corporate America, uncovering the subtle human dynamics that shape trust, leadership, communication, and relationships. Those insights became the foundation for his Amazon international bestselling book, This Call May Be Monitored (What Eavesdropping on Corporate America Taught Me About Business and Life).

Tom is equally at home in the boardroom, on the keynote stage, behind a microphone, or at a keyboard before sunrise with a cup of dark coffee in hand. Through his long-running Wayfarer blog and the Wayfarer Podcast, he explores the intersection of faith, business, culture, history, relationships, and the everyday journey of being human. His writing blends thoughtful reflection, practical wisdom, humor, and the occasional hard-earned scars of life.

A lifelong lover of theatre and storytelling, Tom believes the best communication is never merely informational — it is transformational. Whether speaking to corporate teams, conference audiences, congregations, or readers around the world, his passion is helping people become more attentive listeners, more thoughtful leaders, and more fully alive travelers on the road before them.

Tom lives in Pella with his wife Wendy, where life is shared around the table with family, friends, books, baseball, and the ongoing adventure of noticing grace in ordinary places.

Tom’s “Crash Davis Belief Statement”
I believe that the universe is a work of God’s artistry – embellished by Van Gogh’s brush, Miles Davis’ trumpet, Bob Dylan’s lyrics, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Tolkein’s imagination and Michael Jordan’s jump shot. I believe in hot coffee, Gregorian chants and quiet conversations with God before dawn. I believe in baseball parks on warm summer evenings. I believe in good food, good wine, good company and dinner conversations that keep you at the table for hours. I believe in guitars, cigars and back porch music under the stars. I believe that life is a journey with an eternal destination and in having good companions for the sojourn. I believe that the Cubs will one day win the World Series and the Vikings will one day be Super Bowl champs. I believe grace is costly and salvation is free. I believe in the blues. I believe in second chances, my wife’s love, and the reality that my children are my life’s masterpiece.
– Tom Vander Well (2006)

You can contact Tom at tomvanderwell@gmail.com.