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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

Why Visualizing Data Can Help Us Ask Better Questions

Authors’s Corner with Jer Thorp

When Data Leads Us Astray

What Is It Like to “Live in Data?”

TED: Cultivating Social Bonds Can Help Us Live Longer, Happier Lives

The Key to Social Media Success: Knowing Your Audience

Let’s End Ageism

How Does Good Design Improve Leadership?

Simplifying the Laws of Simplicity

Thinking Differently About Cyber Security

Hackers Doing Good: The Ethos

Cyber Security & the Right to Repair

Easy Cyber Security Steps for Everyone (1:47)

Empathy & Policing

What Would Dr. King Say Today?

Why We Need to Share Our Stories

Dear Martin: Exploring the Why

How Do *Real* Leaders Evaluate Employees?

Don’t Go Over The Net

Adam Bryant: The Two Kinds of Company Culture

Why E-Mail Doesn’t Work

Employee Engagement Is a Two-Way Street

A Highly Scientific Taxonomy of Haters

The Two Sides of Self Compassion

Compassion Creates Emotional Resilience

Self Compassion is a Super Power

The Three Components of Compassion (1:12)

Author’s Corner with Dr. Kristin Neff

How You Can Harness Kindness To Claim Your Power and Thrive

The Self Compassion Break

Rebounding From Failure (2:00)

Why Chaos is Predictable

Why Don’t We See Opportunity Until There’s Crisis?

Shattering Complacency—the Silent Business Killer

Finding Opportunity Through Chaos

Make the World a better Place: Tackling the Environmental Cost of Business.

Passionately Successful: Making the Most of Ambition and Happiness

Why Surveillance Capitalism Is Anti Democratic

How Google Cracked the Code on Monetization

We’re Surrendering Trillions of Data Points Every Day—but Only a Fraction Is Intentional

After Ice

How Glaciers Impact Community

How Bike Lanes Can Transform Our Cities

The Most Important Factor for Achieving Urban Happiness

The Societal Cost of Driving Cars

Cognitive Science of the Unconscious Mind

What Does it Mean to Give Reparations?

Why Closing the Racial Wealth Gap is Good for the Economy

Are Reparations Unfair?

How COVID-19 Changed the Way We Live, Work, and Shop

Retail Isn’t Over. It’s Time To Reengineer.

What’s Next? Predictions for the Future of Amazon.

Why Asia is Leading the Way in Retail

Will Working From Home Upend the Tech Industry?

How Security and Privacy Will Change in a Post Pandemic World

Why the Coronavirus Will Alter the Nature of Work

Life After COVID: Which Businesses Will Boom?

How Technology Is Changing What It Means to Be Human

The Most Crucial Innovation Since Fire and Electricity? AI

One Face, Many Voices: Developing a Diverse Brand Persona

Capturing Imagination Through Brand Storytelling

Creativity Is a Team Sport

Finding Your Courage: Behind Nike’s Iconic Colin Kaepernick Campaign

Conflict is the Enemy of Innovation

How Patent Anonymity Helped Black Innovators

How Violence Hurts Innovation

The Golden Age of Innovation

Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers

Escaping the Khmer Rouge

Author’s Corner with Jordan Ellenberg

How the Vietnam War Unified the White Power Movement

Connecting Radical Acts of Violence to the White Power Movement

Facing the Threat of Militant White Terrorism

Why This Moment in History is Ripe for Radicalization

How the White Power Movement Operates in the Shadows

White Power is a Fringe Movement. Why Is It So Dangerous?

Bias Keeps Us from Reaching Our Full Potential

Author’s Corner with Jessica Nordell

What Can Sesame Street Teach Us About Cross Culture Conflict?

Why Does Bias Exist?

#StopAsianHate Together

How to Make Your Inner Voice Work for You

Why We Give Great Advice to Others, but Can’t Take It Ourselves

How Our Inner Voice Influences Our Lives

The Key to Reducing Our Stress Response

A Powerful Tool for Self Control? Your Self Talk

Why You Should Start Referring to Yourself in the Third Person

Author’s Corner with Katherine Milkman

TED2019 | The Case for Having Kids

Author’s Corner with Steven Pinker

Why Self Persuasion is Marketing’s Most Powerful Tool

Mastering the Key Elements of Self Persuasion

How Finding Common Ground Promotes Engagement

Overcoming the Pressures of Being a WOC in the Workplace

The Price of Being a WOC in the Workplace

How the Pandemic Changed the Nature of Work

The First, the Few, the Only: Being a WOC in the Workforce

What Does Leadership Look Like?

How Do You Show Up? Exploring Belonging in the Workplace

How Inequality Shapes the College Experience

Access vs. Inclusion: Why Getting Into College Is Only Half the Battle

The Evolutionary Reason We Breathe So Poorly

You Can’t Have Good Health Without Good Breathing Habits

Mouth Breathing Is More Common—and More Harmful—Than You Think

The Surprising Health Problems Linked to Your Breathing

What Are the Effects of Stress on the Body?

Does How We Breathe Really Matter?

What Augmented Reality Does Really Well

How AR Revolutionizes the Way We See the World

Real, or AR? How the Line Between Augmented and Physical Reality is Blurring

There’s Power in Compassion

Turning Emotion into Effective Change

Diverse Books Build Empathy

Making History: A Role Model for Indigenous Youth

Find Your Next Apartment with Open Data

Can Beauty Open Our Hearts to Difficult Conversations?

Experiencing Sound Tactually, Visually, and as an Idea

What If Everything You Know About Depression Was Wrong?

Using the Word Talent Undermines Motivation

Goals Are Achieved When Interests are Aligned with Values

Steer High—You’ll Find More Paths to Your Goal

An Impossible Journey: The Immigrant Story of Success

Keeping Our Promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Fighting Systemic Racism as a Collective

How to Be an Amazing Mentor

Coded Bias and The Hidden Prejudice in Our Algorithms

Shalini Kantayya: Coded Bias

Why Doesn’t Justice Belong to Everyone?

The 4 Essential Steps for Creating Change

What Does Justice Look Like?

COVID-19 and the Road to Economic Recovery

Restructuring Sovereign Debt

Understanding the Factors of Financial Crises

Gender Pay Gaps in the Gig Economy

Uber and the Economics of Apologies

Leverage Your Company Data—Or Go Obsolete

Is Your Company’s Apology Just Cheap Talk?

A Secret Memorial for Civilian Casualties

The Surprising Benefits of a Declining Population

How to Be “Team Human” in the Digital Future

AI Will Put a Premium on Creativity

Work After COVID-19

Three Strategies for Encouraging People’s Best Ideas

Reflecting Brand Authenticity

Finding Redemption Through Arts, Music, and Partnerships

In the Future, Will We Be Able to “Feel” Data? (2:51)

How Does Our Brain Influence Our View of Reality? (3:08)

Can Technology Change the Experience of Being Human? (5:58)

9/11: The Human Response vs. The Official Response

The Role of Fate on 9/11

The 20th Anniversary of 9/11: The Shift From Memory to History

The Unseen Stories of 9/11

The Fight to End Rare Animal Trafficking in Brazil

Why You Need to Start Thinking of Yourself as a “Business-of-One”

The Key to Successfully Working Remotely? Autonomy

Why It’s Time to Let Go of the 9-5

How Remote Work is Changing Our Perspective on Work

Helpful Habits for the Home Office

Why You’ll Love Remote Work Post-COVID

Working From Home as a Productivity Advantage

Balancing the Benefits: Work at Home vs. the Office

A Simple Step for a Day of Great Meetings

The New Workplace Hybrid: What Should It Look Like?

Why Email Filters Are Your Friends

Remote Work Schedules: Set the Ground Rules

Author’s Corner with Alexandra Samuel

Make Working from Home, Work for You

Why Does Healthcare Cost More in the U.S.?

What a Broken System Costs Its Citizens

How the Pandemic Redefined Conversations About Public Health

Profit Over Patients: Breaking Down the American Healthcare System

Author’s Corner with Jay Van Bavel

What Separates Grit from Passion, or Hard Work? Stamina.

Why the Key to Unlocking Compassion for Others is Caring for Ourselves

Can Grit Prevent Burnout?

Why Talent Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think

Want to Drive Your Passion? Never Stop Learning

Why Strategy Isn’t More Important Than Company Culture

Compliance vs. Real Change: How to Achieve the Latter in Your Organization

How To Achieve Long and Short Term Goals Simultaneously

The Limits of Your Metrics: What Essential Data Are You Missing?

How Can You Find Your High Value Customers?

Customer Relationships in the Next Wave of Retail

Can We Have a Multiracial Democracy?

Racism Has a Cost for Everyone (14:22)

What the ‘Zero Sum’ Model of Racial Competition Gets Wrong

The Factors Disrupting Democracy

Changing America One Conversation at a Time

Debunking the ‘Bootstrap Theory’ of American Prosperity

Author’s Corner with Heather McGhee

How Racism Drives Inequality for Everyone

How Good Conversation Can Change Your Relationships

Why Has Conversation Eroded, and How Can We Fix It?

How Conversation Can Spur Innovation

What You Gain by Asking Questions

The Biggest Predictor of Success = Grit

Finding Growth Through Failure

What Does it Mean to Practice Deliberately?

The Most Effective Techniques for Developing Grit

The Difference Between Resilience and Grit

Why You Find Purpose As You Age

How the US should use its superpower status

Author’s Corner with Eyal Press

What the Housing Crisis Teaches Us About the Criminal Justice System (8:02)

How Black Enfranchisement Can Be a Political Too

The Importance of Voting

Optimism & Democracy: Fight Until the Final Bell

How Is the American Democracy Fragile?

Author’s Corner with Jelani Cobb

The Power of the “Black Women Best” Framework

The Overlooked Reasons Behind Return to Office Reluctance

The Trick to Producing Better Ideas? Staying Humble.

How to Implement the “Black Women Best” Framework

How Uplifting Marginalized Communities Uplifts Us All

Why We Need to Create More Diversity in Science

Author’s Corner with Martin Ford

What Would the Next American Civil War Look Like?

Who Are the Far Right and What Do They Want?

What Is Happening to American Democracy?

The High Stakes of Polarization

Is America on the Brink of Civil War?

How Changing Your Story Can Change Your Life

As a Leader, Are You Honest About Your Core Strengths?

How Should Leaders Choose Their Guide?

This Simple Act Is Your First Step as an Entrepreneur

The Key Principle for Effective Leadership

Why Successful Leaders Need to Know When to Let Go

Author’s Corner with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

More Armor Doesn’t Make You Stronger

Author’s Corner with Jonathan Brill

Why Successful Entrepreneurs Embrace Change

Using Your Failure to Find Your Next Success

How to Get Comfortable Asking Uncomfortable Questions

Why Successful Entrepreneurs Play the Long Game, Even When It Hurts

Spend Less Time Staring at Screens—and More Time Living

What Is the Cost of Doing Business Remotely?

How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Work

Author’s Corner with Ellen Bennet

TED | 6 Space Technologies We Can Use to Improve the Earth

TED Salon: Radical Craft | The Story of Marvel’s First Queer Latinx Superhero

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Stay on Top

What is the True Purpose of a CEO?

Using Technology to Accelerate Innovation

What Is the Invention Economy?

How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health (7:32)

Author’s Corner with George Packer

How Gratitude Sustains Us Through Challenging Times

Our Hidden Motivation: Psychological Safety (1:21)

Why More Diverse Companies Have Greater Success (1:48)

Why Inclusion and Psychological Safety Are Inseparable

Why Innovation Requires Psychological Safety (1:24)

Author’s Corner with Andrea Elliott

New York’s Invisible Child

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

James Ellroy Speaking at Book Soup

Adam Alter: How Shapes & Names Convey Tone & Gender

Think About Data in a Human Context

Math Is About Knowing What Questions to Ask

The Hate U Give Official Trailer

How Apple Captured the Future

Yes — Mental Health Is Physical Health

AI and the Future of Eyes

NextAI Venture Day 2017 – Ajay Agrawal

Confronting National Crisis Through a Psychological Lens

Championing Free Speech in Egypt

Less Room for Error Means More Room for a Meltdown

Why Google is like truth serum for our most personal thoughts

The Big Difference Between 1955 and Today? Twitter.

Climate Change Is a Story of Mythological Proportion

We Need to Innovate Architecture

The Art of Pitching

AI and the Future of the Human Workforce

The Importance of Human Connection for the Incarcerated

Adam Alter: When Does It Pay to Make Things More Complicated?

AI Meets Free Speech

What Do Americans Want From Corporations?

Eurasia Group | Geopolitics and Global Markets

Inside the Bizarre World of Internet Trolls and Propagandists

What ISIS Thinks of What ISIS Really Wants

Navigating Today’s Moral Dilemmas

The Wired Future

Race as an Aggravating Factor in Sentencing

Wood Is More Technologically Advanced Than You Think

How Is Dying Well a “Moral Obligation”? (2:53)

How Innovative Images Led to a Miraculous Revolution in Neurology

The Linguistic Genius of Adults

Engineering the Future

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the first Delacorte Lecture of 2016

Search and Discover: What the Internet and Big Data Reveal about Who We Are

Envisioning the Future of Food

Is Religion Really to Blame for Global Violence?

The Joy that Comes Out of Hardships Is Revolutionary

Susan Wojcicki & Nicholas Thompson | Navigating the Video Revolution in the Digital Age | SXSW 2018

Meet The Writer Behind Marvel’s First Lesbian Latina Superhero | NBC Out | NBC News

A Ticket to the NHL Comes with a Steep Price

Angela Davis on Not Endorsing Any Presidential Candidate: “I Think We Need a New Party”

Linking Design, Desire, and the Internet of Things

What Inspired *The Hate U Give*?