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IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY

Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #2 of 2)

Ethan Kross, Ph.D.

Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan

Heidi Stevens

Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health

Mar 11 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #1 of 2)

Ethan Kross, Ph.D.

Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan

Daniel Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author

Mar 6 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life

Adam Chandler

Journalist and author

Kathy Gilsinan

Author and a senior editor at Puck News

Mar 5 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others

Adam Galinsky, Ph.D.

Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School

Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D.

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School

Mar 3 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.

John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University

Oliver Burkeman

New York TImes bestselling author and former columnist for The Guardian

Feb 24 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing

Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.

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

Feb 20 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg, Ph.D.

Professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University

David Blight, Ph.D.

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

Feb 19 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr

Author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and other acclaimed books. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Christine Rosen

Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, columnist for Commentary magazine, and a cohost of The Commentary Magazine podcast

Feb 10 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain

Jorge Cham, Ph.D.

Daytime Emmy-nominated and best-selling cartoonist creator and the co-author of two popular science books

Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D.

Professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Feb 5 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids

Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

Psychotherapist, bestselling author, founder and executive director of The Center for Connection, and co-founder of The Play Strong Institute

Georgie Wisen-Vincent, LMFT

Nationally recognized play therapy expert and co-founder and head of faculty for the Play Strong Institute

Carly Andrews

Executive Director of The Alliance for Early Childhood

Jan 30 2025