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Susan David
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- Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her TED Talk on the topic of emotional agility has been seen by more than 10 million people. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal and often appears on national radio and television.
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About Susan David
Susan David, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist at Harvard Medical School and one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. As creator of the concept of Emotional Agility, her recent work has focused on the urgent need to meet the challenges and emotional complexities of this time with action and impact.
Emotional agility is more important today than at any other moment in recent history. It is central to engagement, culture, Leadership, innovation, adaptability and wellbeing. The World Economic Forum calls Emotional Agility a key skill for the future, and Thinkers50 recognized Susan with the Breakthrough Idea of the Year Award, noting, “Emotional Agility is the new currency for leading successfully.”
Susan David, Ph.D. is the visionary who developed the concept of Emotional Agility.
- An award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist.
- Named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers.
- Recipient of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for “insights that have the potential to forever change the way we do business.”
- An Inc.com Top Speaker.
- Author of Emotional Agility, the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller: Emotional Agility has been translated into 30 languages and extensively profiled on national and international media including in the New York Times, TIME, and on the TODAY show. Harvard Business Review named Emotional Agility a Management Idea of the Year.
- The recipient of a standing ovation at TED for a talk that went viral, with more than 60 million unique views on social media and 9 million at TED.com, making it one of the most popular TED talks of the year.
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Emotional Agility
Emotional Agility is a tool for everyone – now more than ever. Susan inspires audiences to think, feel, and act differently with deeply impactful and positive outcomes for themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations.
Emotionally agile people are dynamic. They demonstrate flexibility in dealing with a fast-changing, complex world. They face stress and setbacks with curiosity, compassion and courage, and make choices that are values-connected and serve who they most want to be in life and work.
Build your Emotional Agility in turbulent times.
- Explore the critical emotional agility habits that enable people to engage, drive culture,
team, be resilient, and flourish. - Understand how being hooked by thoughts, emotions, and stories hinders thriving.
- Learn how emotional agility enables people to remain curious, courageous and valuescommitted even in times of challenge and bring their best selves to work.
- Leave with a set of essential practical steps to cultivate emotional agility.