Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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Roadmap to a Brighter Future: Reimagining and Realizing America’s Possibilities
Chairman emeritus of Kearney and founder of its Global Business Policy Council
Senior Director of the International Strategic Response team at Meta, and former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Office of Legislative Affairs
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Co-author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics.
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School
Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management
Editor-at-large at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UCSB School of Environment
Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Atlantic
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
“Ask Polly” advice columnist on Substack, essayist, and author
New York Times bestselling author and an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts
Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World
Author, social worker, co-host of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, and co-creator of the Zen Parenting Conference
Maru Torres-Gregory, JD, Ph.D., LMFT
Couples and family therapist and faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program atThe Family Institute at Northwestern University
The Grieving Brain: How We Learn from Love and Loss
Associate professor of psychology and director of the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, University of Arizona
Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
#1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and writer
Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law
Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School