Arianna Huffington

A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease — and 90% of our $4.1 trillion in annual health care spending goes toward treating these conditions. This is unsustainable, but there are solutions. Behavior change can be a miracle drug, both for preventing disease and for optimizing the treatment of disease. That’s the mission of Thrive AI Health, the company the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global have launched. Every aspect of our health is deeply influenced by the five foundational daily behaviors of sleep, food, movement, stress management, and social connection. Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington shares how AI-driven hyper-personalization can significantly improve these behaviors – and health outcomes. Using AI in this way would also scale and democratize the life-saving benefits of improving daily habits and address growing health inequities. So much of the conversation around AI has been about how much time it will save us and how productive it will make us. Here we learn how AI could go well beyond efficiency and optimization to something much more fundamental: improving both our health spans and our lifespans.

Chronic diseases and mental health conditions are draining 90% of the US’s $4.3 trillion healthcare budget, exposing the limitations of traditional medical care and emphasizing the need for proactive health management. So, what’s the secret to effectively combating illness and proactively protecting our health? It’s our daily behavior.

Science shows our behaviors in five key areas — sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and social connection — are crucial for disease prevention and health optimization.

Arianna Huffington, founder, and CEO of Thrive Global, shares groundbreaking research and strategies for improving health and productivity through small daily micro-steps that lead to healthier habits because “health is what happens between doctor visits.”

Culture is a company’s immune system. It’s what makes a company resilient and able to navigate times of change and uncertainty. As Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington shows, with a strong culture, organizations can thrive even in times of disruption. This includes ways to:

• Build mental resilience.
• Create a culture of engagement, meaning, and purpose.
• Rebuild social capital in a hybrid world.
• Boost organizational efficiency, productivity, engagement, and employee well-being simultaneously.

There’s no trade-off between employee well-being and performance. With this roadmap to creating a strong culture of resilience and belonging, companies can thrive through change.

Too many leaders still buy into the misguided notion that chaotic times require them to be in constant motion and always on or that they have to match the frenetic pace of the moment. As New York Times bestselling author and Thrive Global founder, and CEO Arianna Huffington writes, “In fact, the opposite is true — the best way to lead a company forward is by looking inward. It is judgment that we need from leaders in moments of crisis, not just stamina.” In this engaging talk, Huffington reveals how leaders can go inward and tap into the innovative and creative ideas that the times demand.

Over time our society’s notion of success has been reduced to just the acquisition of money and power. This idea of success can work — or at least appear to work— in the short term. But over the long term, money and power by themselves are like a two-legged stool — you can balance on them for a while. Still, eventually, you’re going to topple over. And more and more people — very successful people — are toppling over. To live the lives we truly want and deserve and not just the ones we settle for, we need another measure of success beyond the two metrics of money and power. In this riveting talk, based on her #1 New York Times bestselling book, Thrive, Arianna Huffington shows how we can create a Third Metric based on well-being, wisdom, wonder, and the power of giving.

Sleep deprivation has become a global epidemic in an increasingly fast-paced and hyper-connected world, devastatingly affecting every aspect of our health, performance, and relationships. In her New York Times bestselling book, The Sleep Revolution, Thrive Global Founder, and CEO Arianna Huffington offers a sweeping exploration of sleep, from its rich history to the latest science, emphasizing how it can transform our lives. Through personal stories and specific, science-backed tips and recommendations, Huffington addresses the most critical issues with her audience: why we sleep, why we need it, what happens when we don’t get enough, and how to get more – so we can take control of our lives and live more fully.

Can you achieve true success through a relentless race to the top at the exclusion of all else? Arianna Huffington makes a compelling case for a different approach. By redefining success beyond money and power, she urges audiences to consider a third metric in measuring success—one which is “based on well-being, health, our ability to unplug and recharge and renew ourselves, and to find joy in both our job and the rest of our life.”

Mounting evidence, both scientific and anecdotal, confirms that the practices that make us less stressed also make us more productive, and Huffington provides clear examples of how this is not only good for families’ and employees’ health, but also good for a company’s bottom line. Even though the current male-dominated model of success isn’t working for either gender, Huffington acknowledges that women must lead the charge in changing the current ethos.

Eloquent and engaging, Huffington shares how ‘leaning back’ makes for wiser leaders and how ultimately, success is not just about money or position, but about living the life you want—not just the life for which you settle.

The tech advances of the last few years have turned the news and entertainment worlds on their ears, shifting the balance of power away from the media giants and to consumers—and citizens—empowering them to choose and create. Technology is having the same game-changing effect on the political world.

In this lively presentation, Huffington, described by Fortune as one of the few people who “get” the Internet, discusses the latest online and social media trends—including how media companies are turning content promiscuity into profits—and reveals her vision of a hybrid future where traditional media and new media become one.

In an increasingly fast-paced and hyper-connected world, sleep deprivation has become a global epidemic, with devastating effects on our health, our performance and our relationships. In this talk, Arianna Huffington—New York Times best-selling author and president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group—offers a sweeping exploration of sleep, from its rich history to the latest science, with an emphasis on how it can transform our lives.

Through personal stories and specific, science-backed tips and recommendations, Huffington addresses the most critical issues with her audience: why we sleep, why we need it, what happens when we don’t get enough, and how to get more, so we can take control of our lives and live more fully.