A conference on the science and practice of emotional intelligence
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- Venue: Harvard Medical School
- Date: June 24 - 26, 2013
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Note: This is not a Greater Good Science Center event.
This conference seeks to provide leaders, learning and development professionals, educators, EQ practitioners, scholars, and youth (9+) with new perspectives of, research on and practical strategies to apply emotional intelligence. Topics will address business, education, community, health, and youth with emotional intelligence applications to improve these areas.
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Speakers will include:
- Peter Salovey: President & Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Yale University. Author, with John Mayer, of the seminal research that created the science of emotional intelligence
- Tony Wagner: The first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Author of many books including, Creating Innovators, and Change Leadership
- Herbert Benson, M.D.: Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI), and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Wendy Wu: CEO, New Leaders China. Columnist, Fortune China. Coauthor, To Feel or Not to Feel? Six Seconds to Change Your EQ! Founder, Six Seconds China
- Deborah Ahenkorah: Echoing Green Fellow; co-founder of the Golden Baobab, ensuring that young people in Africa have access to excellent books that reflect their life experiences
- Marco Iacoboni: Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, UCLA
- Daniel Shapiro: Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program. International peace negotiator. Coauthor Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate
- Anabel Jensen: President, Six Seconds - The Emotional Intelligence Network. CEO, Synapse School. Author of Self-Science, Getting Started with Emotional Intelligence
- Myles Munroe: International speaker and leader transforming Followers into Leaders - and Leaders into agents of change and the maximization of individual potential
- Joshua Freedman: Chief Operating Officer, Six Seconds. Chair, NexusEQ. Author, At the Heart of Leadership, INSIDE CHANGE, and At the Heart of Fatherhood
- Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Assistant Professor of Education at USC Rossier School; Asst. Prof. of Psychology Brain and Creativity Institute; Faculty, USC Neuroscience Graduate Program
For more information, visit http://www.nexuseq.com.