Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #2 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #1 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
#1 New York Times bestselling author
99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
Journalist and author
Author and a senior editor at Puck News
Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University
New York TImes bestselling author and former columnist for The Guardian
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
Professor of psychology and director of the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, University of Arizona
Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW
Psychotherapist, author, and podcast host
John Lewis: A Life
Professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University
Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and other acclaimed books. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.
Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, columnist for Commentary magazine, and a cohost of The Commentary Magazine podcast
Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
Daytime Emmy-nominated and best-selling cartoonist creator and the co-author of two popular science books
Professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience at Wake Forest University School of Medicine
The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids
Psychotherapist, bestselling author, founder and executive director of The Center for Connection, and co-founder of The Play Strong Institute
Nationally recognized play therapy expert and co-founder and head of faculty for the Play Strong Institute
Executive Director of The Alliance for Early Childhood