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Daniel Pink

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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Power of Regret, When, To Sell is Human, Drive, and A Whole New Mind

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Gender: Male

Nationality: United States

Languages: English

Travels from: United States

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Dan Pink deploys the science of motivation to boost engagement, spark innovation, and create better leaders.

Biography

A deep researcher and compelling communicator, Daniel Pink is one of the foremost business minds of our day. He is the author of seven books on business, work, creativity, and behavior including The New York Times bestsellers The Power of Regret, When, and A Whole New Mind — and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Pink’s newest book The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward (February 2022) explores how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. It has been named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR, The Financial Times, Amazon, and Apple Books.

Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a deviation from the steady path to happiness. It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human. Regret is also valuable. It clarifies. It instructs. Done right, it needn’t drag us down; it can lift us up.

— DANIEL PINK

Pink’s award-winning books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. His TED Talk on the science of motivation has been viewed more than 40 million times. By making the leading business research of our day accessible, Pink pushes audiences to consider their lives in a new light and unlocks the ways top performers flourish at home, at school, and at work.

An acclaimed expert, Pink’s articles appear in publications such as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Atlantic. Thinkers50 has named him one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world numerous times. After co-producing and hosting the popular show “Crowd Control” on National Geographic Television, he now speaks directly to over 170,000 subscribers of his online show “The Pinkcast,” where he shares actionable tips for working smarter and living better. Provocative and inspiring, Pink shares irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give audiences compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives and the tools to make organizations more effective.

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Beyond Resilience: A New Path to a Strong Culture

As the world emerges from the pandemic, organizations everywhere are reexamining their operations and rethinking their priorities. What do they stand for? How should they navigate what comes next? And how might they build cultures where people can do their best work and be their best selves?

In this provocative and practical presentation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink offers a fresh set of strategies. Pink will draw on an unprecedented two-year study of our most misunderstood emotion: regret. He will show that ignoring or rejecting regrets is a colossal mistake. Instead, confronting regrets systematically can deliver an array of organizational benefits. It can sharpen leaders’ decisions, speed learning and development, and boost individual and team performance.

In particular, he will show how the four core regrets shared by people around world contain the seeds of a reimagined and more powerful corporate culture. By understanding what people regret the most, we can learn what they value the most – and that can help organizations of every kind attract top talent, deepen employee engagement, and strengthen loyalty and commitment.

With Pink’s trademark blend of big ideas and smart takeaways, compelling stories and sharp humor, this presentation provides an urgent and inspiring map for flourishing in unpredictable times.

You will learn:

How to anticipate – and avoid – the most significant organizational regrets,
How to transform existing regrets into a positive force and a coherent culture,
Why regrets of inaction outnumber regrets of action – and how to enlist that insight to spark innovation,
Why doing the right thing is more important to employees than most C-Suite executives understand – and why, in this fraught moment, being a good organization can pave the way to becoming a great organization.

Available: In person, Virtually

The Surprising Path to the Good Life

How can we lead more satisfying personal and professional lives? As the world emerges from Covid, that question has become newly urgent for individuals and organizations alike. #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink has found the answer in an unlikely place.

In this provocative and engaging presentation, Pink will reveal a new approach to working smarter and living better by examining our most understood emotion: regret. He will show why the ever-popular “No Regrets” philosophy is utter nonsense. Everyone has regrets. And if we handle our regrets strategically, Pink says, they can be one of the most powerful ways we have to sharpen our decisions, elevate our performance, and deepen our sense of meaning.

To tell his stories and share his insights, Pink will draw on two massive and unprecedented research projects: The American Regret Project, the largest sampling of U.S. attitudes on regret ever conducted, and the World Regret Survey, which has collected more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries. The result is a presentation packed with big ideas, practical takeaways, and a dose of inspiration.

You will learn:

The 4 core regrets that people around the world have – and what that teaches us about the good life,
A science-based, 3-step process to convert your existing regrets into tools for increasing happiness and boosting performance,
How simple, engaging techniques like “regret circles” and “failure resumes” can transform negative emotions into positive forces,
The Regret Optimization Principle, which offers a systematic method for anticipating and avoiding future regrets.

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TESTIMONIALS

Daniel Pink’s presentation was great! He is a very skilled public speaker and had the audience engaged and interested during his entire presentation.

Universities and Colleges

Daniel Pink did a wonderful job! He talked about relevant topics and the audience was extremely happy with taking time out of their schedules to hear what he had to say.

Health Care

Dan Pink’s powerful keynote set the perfect tone for the whole conference.

Health Care

Thank you so much for your keynote address! The audience loved it. They gave your address a 4.71 score which is stratospherically high. You really hit the mark and really made a difference.

Health Care

Dan Pink was AMAZING! The audience was thrilled with his presentation and asked some great questions. He was a perfect speaker to be honest, was intelligent, concise, everything that you hope for as the meeting planner!

Education Programs

Daniel Pink was fabulous! He was funny and motivating and taught some principles that were well-received by the audience.

Education Programs

One word…perfect! Dan Pink was super and so very gracious.

Education Programs

Dan Pink’s presentation exceeded all expectations-he was fantastic! Everyone commented on how valuable and wonderful it was to have him as our Keynote Speaker.

Education Programs

Dan Pink was in a word FABULOUS! Thank you so much for everything. I look forward to working with you in the future when we bring other speakers to Illinois.

Universities and Colleges

Dan Pink’s message was timely for our organization and the manner in which he delivered, combined with the active interaction of the engaged participants made it a very lively event.

Tobacco

Dan was provocative, humorous and extremely insightful. Most of all, we enjoyed his humble and engaging leadership style.

Food

Dan Pink’s conversation with our global HR audience exceeded all our expectations! He was definitely a great choice as our opening keynote speaker. Dan was provocative, humorous and extremely insightful. Most of all, we enjoyed his humble and engaging leadership style. He left us all with a lot of practical, easy to implement ideas that we can start to apply in the business and with our teams right away. Dan will always be a friend of the Coca-Cola family, and we hope to be able to welcome him back to our campus again!

Food

I have had the opportunity to hear from many thought leaders and speakers, and Dan Pink was one of my favorites. His presentation felt very personal to our organization’s mission and I really appreciated his humor and preparation for the talk. He really made it feel like he was talking to each one of the audience members.

Technology

Daniel Pink’s data-driven approach and energizing presence captured our employees’ attention. Everyone found his talk both highly interesting and educational, with many piloting his ideas in their own work environments.

Technology

Dan Pink was an absolute pleasure. His presentation of ‘When’ was timely, current and most importantly actionable. Attendees really felt that they had concrete material to take away and apply immediately from the event. This was reflected in the great score of 9.2 out of 10 that the event registered from the members. We eagerly await Dan’s next project and plan to invite him back!

Young Entrepreneurs

Dan is gifted presenter! He was easy to work with and truly wowed our audience! We really appreciated how he worked with us to craft a tailored presentation with themes from two of his books. He also listened to our CEO’s address just before ours and injected humor and more personalization. People left feeling both energized and contemplative which is a hard balance to strike!

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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives. Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey—which has collected regrets from more than 15,000 people in 105 countries—he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward. As he did in his bestsellers Drive, When, and A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear, accessible, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people’s regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

An exciting–and encouraging–exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment–and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that’s already here.

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Timing is everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Timing, it’s often assumed, is an art; in When, Pink shows that timing is in fact a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? When should you have your first coffee of the day? Why is singing in time with other people as good for us as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. It’s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book DRIVE: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does – and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it’s precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today’s challenges. In DRIVE, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: AUTONOMY – the desire to direct our own lives; MASTERY – the urge to get better and better at something that matters; PURPOSE – the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. DRIVE is bursting with big ideas – the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

Free Agent Nation: How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives — Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself. It’s about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today’s new economic icon: the free agent-men and women who are working for themselves. And meet your future. It’s about freedom. Free agents are the marketing consultant down the street, the home-based “mompreneur,” the footloose technology contractor. Already 30 million strong, these 21st-century pioneers are creating lives with more meaning-and often more money. Free Agent Nation is your ticket to this world. It’s about time. Now, you can discover: The kind of free agent you can be-“soloist,” “temp,” or “microbusiness”-and how to launch your new career. How to get the perks you once received from your boss: health insurance, office space, training, workplace togetherness, even water cooler gossip. Why the free agent economy is increasingly a woman’s world-and how women are flourishing in it. The transformation of retirement-how older workers are creating successful new businesses (and whole new lives) through the Internet.

To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others

We’re all in Sales now Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Match.com profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Pink shows that sales isn’t what it used to be. Then he provides a set of tools, tips, and exercises for succeeding on this new terrain – including six new ways to pitch your idea, three ways to understand another’s perspective, five frames that can make your message clearer, and much more.

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