Susan David, Ph.D. is an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist and author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Emotional Agility, translated into 30 languages and exploring science-based ways to navigate emotions, complexity, and change.
"Strategy doesn’t create the future. People do."
For more than two decades, Susan has studied how the way people navigate their emotions shapes their actions, careers, relationships, health, and happiness. Her work applies those insights to leadership, workplace culture, wellbeing, and organizational change.
Standout achievements:
🏆 Winner of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award and named to the Thinkers50 global list of leading management thinkers
🎓 Cofounder of the Institute of Coaching, a Harvard Medical School/McLean affiliate
🎤 Her TED Talk on emotional agility has been viewed by more than 12 million people
What you’ll learn from Susan at Workhuman Live:
🧭 How emotional agility can help people stay grounded in what matters while navigating new ways of working
🤝 How human skills like empathy, adaptability, and psychological safety can strengthen leadership and collaboration
🤖 Why distinctly human capabilities become increasingly important as AI reshapes work
