Advisory Board

  • Shellye Archambeau

    Businesswoman, author, Fortune 500 board member, Former CEO of MetricStream

  • Susan Baum, Ph.D.

    Director of the Bridges 2e Center for Research and Professional Development

  • Raya Bidshahri

    Serial education entrepreneur, keynote speaker, award-winning educator; Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the School of Humanity

  • Susan Cain

    Bestselling author, lecturer, advocate of the hidden power of introverts

  • Skye Cleary, Ph.D.

  • Chip Conley

    Hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author, and speaker; Author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow

  • Colin DeYoung, Ph.D.

    Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota; personality neuroscientist

  • Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.

    Founder and CEO of Character Lab; Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Michael Gervais, Ph.D.

    High performance sports psychologist; Co-founder of Compete to Create; Host of the Finding Mastery podcast

  • Seth Gillihan, Ph.D.

    Clinical psychologist, host of the Think Act Be Podcast, and author of The CBT Deck and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple

  • Gary Heil

    Cofounder of the National Pitching Association and the Pitch It Forward Foundation; author, educator, lawyer, consultant, and coach; Author of Choose Love Not Fear: How the Best Leaders Build Cultures of Engagement and Innovation That Unleash Human Potential

  • Laura Huang, Ph.D.

    Associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School Author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

  • Benjamín Juárez

    Music conductor, professor, and coach; diversity consultant; Former Dean and Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Boston University

  • Steven Kotler

    Author, journalist, and entrepreneur; Author of The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

  • Julie Lythcott-Haims

    Author, speaker, and activist; Former Dean of Freshman and Undergraduate Advising at Stanford University; Author of Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

  • Jonathan Mooney

    Activist, businessman, author of "The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal "and co-author of "Learning Outside the Lines".

  • Elliot Samuel Paul, Ph.D.

    Assistant professor of philosophy at Queen’s University

  • Christine Robinson

    Senior advisor, strategist, and philanthropy consultant; Has a deep commitment to social justice with a focus on listening and co-creating strategies with communities who have traditionally been marginalized. Her work focuses on building generative organizations, systems, and networks and bringing equity to action

  • Sharon Salzberg

    Author, teacher of Buddhist meditation; Co-founder of the Insight Mediation Society; Author of Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World

  • Dean Simonton, Ph.D.

    Professor of psychology at UC-Davis; author of Greatness: Who Makes History and Why

  • Lisa Solomon, Ph.D.

    Designer in Residence at Stanford University’s Institute for Design (aka “d. School”); Founding Chair of Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University; Co-author of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change

  • Alice Wilder, Ed.D.

    Lead, Children’s Educational Development, WW Video at Apple

  • David Yaden, Ph.D.

    Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Investigates the psychology, neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of psychedelics and other self-transcendent experiences

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