Amy Cuddy

Brainstormer, Doctor, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Scientist, Writer/Editor

Dr. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Her writing, research, teaching, and speaking focus on presence and performance under stress, the causes and outcomes of feeling powerful vs. powerless, prejudice and stereotyping, nonverbal behavior, the delicate balance of projecting trustworthiness and strength, and most recently, the psychology of bullying, bystanding, and social bravery. After earning her Ph.D. at Princeton University, she was a professor at Harvard Business School (2008-2017) and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (2006-2008). She was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award from Harvard University in 2018 and the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology in 2022. Her 2012 TED Talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are,” is the second-most popular of all time, with more than 68 million views. Her NYT bestseller, Presence, described in the NYT Sunday Book Review as “…concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious - above all, truly powerful,” has sold more than half a million copies and been published in 35 languages. In 2024, she will publish her next book, Bullies, Bystanders, & Bravehearts (Mariner), on the psychology of bullying among adults — and how we find the courage to stop it. She’s also an avid roller skater and skier, live-music lover (actually, a devoted Deadhead!), adventuring partner to her husband Paul, and hype mom to her son, Jonah, a guitarist, producer, songwriter and student at Berklee College of Music.

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We all can learn to be bravehearts.

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