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  Luke Dittrich

  Luke Dittrich is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist, and a contributing editor at Esquire. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Esquire.

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  Alison Fragale

  ALISON FRAGALE is the Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Scholar of Organizational Behavior at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Her scholarship has been published in the most prestigious academic journals in her field, and featured in prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and Inc. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Likeable Badass, to be published by Penguin Random House on September 3, 2024. A sought-after keynote speaker and trusted advisor, she lives in Chicago with her family.

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  Faith G. Harper

  Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.
  
  

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  Ellen Hendriksen

  DR. ELLEN HENDRIKSEN is a clinical psychologist who will help you calm your anxiety and be your authentic self. She serves on the faculty at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) and is the author of HOW TO BE ENOUGH: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists and HOW TO BE YOURSELF: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety.
  
  Ellen’s scientifically-based, zero-judgment approach has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, goop, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and many other media outlets.
  
  Ellen earned her Ph.D. at UCLA and completed her training at Harvard Medical School. She lives in the Boston area with her family.
  
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  Elizabeth Vargas

  Elizabeth Anne Vargas is an American television journalist who is anchor of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20 and other news specials. Vargas was married to singer-songwriter Marc Cohen for 12 years. They have two sons.

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  Brittney Cooper

  Brittney Cooper is a writer, teacher, and public speaker. She thinks Black feminism can change the world for the better.
  
  Brittney is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the popular Crunk Feminist Collective blog. And she is a contributing writer for Cosmopolitan.com and a former contributor to Salon.com. Her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Ebony.com, Essence.com, TheRoot.com, and TED.com.
  
  Dr. Cooper is co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection (The Feminist Press 2017). She is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual

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  Erick Galindo

  Erick Galindo is an award-winning writer, producer and journalist. His work has appeared in the publications of such distinguished storytellers as Hispanic Link New Service, Yahoo!, Time Warner Cable Sports, Pasadena Star-News, San Jose Mercury News and La Opinion. He has covered everything from plantain bandits in Puerto Rico to the collapse of housing market in Los Angeles, and is an alum of the prestigious New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

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  Luke Dittrich

  Luke Dittrich is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist, and a contributing editor at Esquire. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Esquire.

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  Kim Malone Scott

  Kim Scott is the author of Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better and Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and co-founder of the company Radical Candor. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Prior to that Kim managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.
  She co-hosts the podcasts Radical Candor and Radical Respect. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.

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  Adam Alter

  Adam Alter is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, a New York Times bestseller about the forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave, and Irresistible, a book about the rise of tech addiction and what we should do about it.
  
  Alter was recently included in the Poets and Quants “40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors under 40 in the World,” and has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Wired, Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He has shared his ideas at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and with dozens of companies around the world.
  
  Alter received his Bachelor of Science (Honors Class 1, Univers

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  Vanessa Montfort

  Vanessa Montfort Écija es una novelista, dramaturga y periodista española, Nacida en Barcelona reside en Madrid desde la infancia. Es licenciada en Ciencias de la Información y experta en comunicación y arte por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Su carrera literaria siempre ha estado a caballo entre el teatro y la novela, y comenzó con las obras Quijote's Show (Madrid, 1999), Paisaje transportado (Madrid, 2003) y Estábamos destinadas a ser ángeles (Madrid, 2006).
  
  Ese mismo año ganó el XI Premio Ateneo Joven de Sevilla con su primera novela, El ingrediente secreto (Algaida, 2006), obteniendo el favor de crítica y público. Un año más tarde, su paso por el Royal Court Theatre de Londres dejó traducidos al inglés textos como Flashback (Londr

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  Russ Harris

  Dr Russ Harris is a medically-qualified doctor, stress consultant, executive coach, trainer, author, and a leading authority in the powerful new paradigm of Psychological Flexibility. (This is a revolutionary new development in human psychology that enhances performance, reduces stress, and improves health and wellbeing.) Dr Russ regularly presents workshops on Psychological Flexibility at both national and international psychology conferences, and has a thriving business traveling around Australia running training seminars for psychologists, coaches and a variety of health professionals.
  
  Dr Russ's first book, 'The Happiness Trap', was published in Australia in March 2007, and is already well on the way to becoming a bestseller. (The title

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  Catherine Price

  Catherine Price is passionate about learning and experiencing new things, understanding first principles, and using her background as a science journalist to help people question their assumptions and make positive changes in their lives.
  
  Her journalistic work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Parade, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, Mother Jones, Health Magazine, and Outside, among others.

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  Paula Hawkins

  Paula Hawkins is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, which was made into a major motion picture. Her new novel of psychological suspense, Into The Water, is coming May 2.

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  Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

  I write about people, technology, and the worlds they make.

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  Alfie Kohn

  Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.
  
  Kohn's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores."
  
  Kohn lives (actually) in the Boston area with his wife and two children, and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.

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  David A. Carbonell

  David Carbonell, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety. He is the author of four self-help books: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain. He is also the “coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach, and his books are all available for purchase there. In his spare time, he is the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists in the Chicago area.

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  Andy Crouch

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  For twelve years Andy was an editor and producer at Christianity Today (CT), including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He joined the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction." He serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
  
  From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quar

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  Bruce Feiler

  BRUCE FEILER is one of America’s most popular voices on contemporary life. He is the author of six consecutive New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama COUNCIL OF DADS on NBC. Bruce’s two TED Talks have been viewed more than two million times. Employing a firsthand approach to his work, Bruce is known for living the experiences he writes about. His work combines timeless wisdom with timely knowledge turned into practical, positive messages that allow people to live with more meaning, passion, and joy. His new book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change at Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate

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  Clayton M. Christensen

  Clayton Magleby Christensen was an American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of "disruptive innovation", which has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century. Christensen introduced "disruption" in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, and it led The Economist to term him "the most influential management thinker of his time." He served as the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS), and was also a leader and writer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was one of the founders of the Jobs to Be Done development methodology.
  Christensen was also a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, a venture capital firm, and Inno

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  Jenna Birch

  Jenna Birch is a longtime journalist and author of THE LOVE GAP. Her work has appeared in print and online publications including O, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper's BAZAAR, ELLE, Marie Claire, SELF, Psychology Today, the Washington Post, Man Repeller and Yahoo, among many others. She resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  

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