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ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Maggie Smith

Award-winning author and poet

Glory Edim

Author and Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors

Apr 9 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation

Doug Bolton, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and educational leader and consultant

Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host

Apr 8 2025
ZOOM EVENT!

Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change

Olga Khazan

Staff writer for The Atlantic and author

Maria Konnikova

New York Times bestselling author, co-host of the Risky Business podcast, and international poker champion

Mar 17 2025
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