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FEATURED GUESTS
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She also educates lawyers, judges, and other legal actors about emotion, neuroscience, and the law for her work for Harvard’s Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion from the perspectives of both psychology and neuroscience. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada and recently received a Guggenheim fellowship. Barrett won the 2018 Lifetime Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science and a 2007 Director’s Pioneer Award from the US National Institutes of Health. Barrett’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, Nautilus, Cosmopolitan, and Time. Her TED Talk, viewed more than four million times, was chosen as one of the most popular of 2018. Barrett is the author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (2017).
Laszlo Bock
Laszlo Bock is the CEO of Humu Inc., a company that makes work better through science, machine learning, and a little bit of love. From 2006 to 2016, Bock was senior vice president of People Operations at Google and a member of Google’s management team. Bock is credited with creating the field of “people analytics,” the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. He also led the development of the Google Cloud Jobs API and what is now known as Google for Jobs. He joined Google from the General Electric Co., and earlier was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. In 2010 he was named “Human Resources Executive of the Year” and in 2015 the “HR Professional of the Decade.” His bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (2015), has been published in more than 20 languages.
Howard Ross
Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias. He is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, and the Washington Post bestseller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. His latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart, published in May 2018. Ross has specialized in the synthesis of neuro-cognitive and social science research and direct application related to diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility work. In 47 of the United States and over 40 countries, Ross has successfully implemented large-scale organizational culture change efforts in diversity and cultural integration for academia, governmental institutions, professional services corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and other organizations.
RELATED RESOURCES
· Feldman Barrett, Lisa. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Mariner Books; reprint edition, 2018.
· Ross, Howard J. Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
· Wansink, Brian, and Jeffery Sobal. "Mindless eating: The 200 daily food decisions we overlook." Environment and Behavior 39, no. 1 (2007): 106-123.
· Sahakian, Barbara; LaBuzetta, Jamie Nicole. Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs. Oxford University Press; reprint edition, 2013.
