Susan David, author of the #1 WSJ bestselling book Emotional Agility, TED Speaker, and award-winning Harvard Psychologist, is one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. Her viral TED talk, with more than 10 million views, is one of TED’s ten most popular. Susan holds a PhD in clinical psychology and a post-doctorate in emotions research from Yale. She is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Susan has received numerous prizes and scholarships for her academic work.
Named on the Thinkers50 global list of top management thinkers, Susan is passionate about keynote speaking and management consulting. She is a renowned executive coach, applying her knowledge of emotions, human motivation, and change to individuals and organizations. Susan frequently works in areas of personal leadership, culture, engagement, and people strategy. She has advised numerous leaders facing difficult situations, including mergers and acquisitions, leadership transitions, and strategic revisions. She routinely consults at the most senior levels of Fortune 500 companies and other global organizations across diverse industries such as financial services, information technology, healthcare, utilities, pharmaceuticals, and mining. Her worldwide client list includes Ernst and Young Global, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Development Program, BHP Billiton, JP Morgan Chase, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nestlé, among many others.
Susan edited the definitive Oxford Handbook of Happiness, with a foreword by His Majesty the King of Bhutan, the first country to measure Gross National Happiness (Oxford University Press, 2013). She also edited Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring (Gower, 2013). She frequently contributes to the Harvard Business Review, and her research has been featured in TIME, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Inc.com, among other major publications. Susan’s article on Emotional Agility stayed on Harvard Business Review’s “Most Read” list for months, being downloaded nearly a quarter of a million times. It was named by Harvard Business Review as an “Idea that Shaped Management” and won the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award. The article’s popularity led to her book by the same name, published by Penguin (Avery), which became a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and has been translated into multiple languages. Susan’s TED Talk on the topic went viral with over 1 million views in its first week of release.
Susan is a global citizen who loves to travel. She backpacked across the world for nearly two years and has lived in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and now, Boston, USA. In December 2016, she co-led the first all-female expedition to Antarctica, aiming to increase the influence and impact of women in science.
Emotional agility is a tool for everyone. Susan inspires audiences to think, feel, and act differently, with deeply impactful and positive outcomes for themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations.
Susan David, author of the #1 WSJ bestselling book Emotional Agility, TED Speaker, and award-winning Harvard Psychologist, is one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. Her viral TED talk, with more than 10 million views, is one of TED’s ten most popular. Susan holds a PhD in clinical psychology and a post-doctorate in emotions research from Yale. She is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Susan has received numerous prizes and scholarships for her academic work.
Named on the Thinkers50 global list of top management thinkers, Susan is passionate about keynote speaking and management consulting. She is a renowned executive coach, applying her knowledge of emotions, human motivation, and change to individuals and organizations. Susan frequently works in areas of personal leadership, culture, engagement, and people strategy. She has advised numerous leaders facing difficult situations, including mergers and acquisitions, leadership transitions, and strategic revisions. She routinely consults at the most senior levels of Fortune 500 companies and other global organizations across diverse industries such as financial services, information technology, healthcare, utilities, pharmaceuticals, and mining. Her worldwide client list includes Ernst and Young Global, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Development Program, BHP Billiton, JP Morgan Chase, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nestlé, among many others.
Susan edited the definitive Oxford Handbook of Happiness, with a foreword by His Majesty the King of Bhutan, the first country to measure Gross National Happiness (Oxford University Press, 2013). She also edited Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring (Gower, 2013). She frequently contributes to the Harvard Business Review, and her research has been featured in TIME, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Inc.com, among other major publications. Susan’s article on Emotional Agility stayed on Harvard Business Review’s “Most Read” list for months, being downloaded nearly a quarter of a million times. It was named by Harvard Business Review as an “Idea that Shaped Management” and won the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award. The article’s popularity led to her book by the same name, published by Penguin (Avery), which became a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and has been translated into multiple languages. Susan’s TED Talk on the topic went viral with over 1 million views in its first week of release.
Susan is a global citizen who loves to travel. She backpacked across the world for nearly two years and has lived in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and now, Boston, USA. In December 2016, she co-led the first all-female expedition to Antarctica, aiming to increase the influence and impact of women in science.
Emotional agility is a tool for everyone. Susan inspires audiences to think, feel, and act differently, with deeply impactful and positive outcomes for themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations.
