Ethan Kross, PhD, two-time National Bestselling author of SHIFT and CHATTER, is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Department of Psychology and its Ross School of Business. He is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory.
Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House, spoken at TED and SXSW, and consulted with some of the world’s top executives and organizations. He has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.
Ethan’s first book, the international bestseller, CHATTER, has been translated into over 40 languages. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.
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Your Emotions Are Information Here’s How to Use Them
“We are living through a cultural shift in the recognition of the role that emotions play in our professional lives,” says Ethan Kross, bestselling author and award-winning psychologist. “We now know definitively that the better able you are to regulate your emotions, the better able you are to think and perform. If a company cares about performance, they have to care about emotions.”
In this immediately actionable, scientifically-backed talk, Ethan draws on his acclaimed book Shift to show audiences how to use your emotions to gain an edge at work, at school, and at home. He offers a science-based toolkit of surprisingly simple skills that anyone can use to shift their emotional state and start making their emotions work for them instead of against them. Packed with riveting stories and practical tips, this talk is a must-listen for anyone who cares about productivity, wellbeing, and mental fitness.
Shift Managing Your Emotions—So They Don’t Manage You
Emotions shape everything we do: how we think, how we perform, and how we lead. But too often, they feel like something that just happens to us rather than something we can control. Anxiety before a big presentation, frustration in a tense meeting, exhaustion from an endless to-do list—these emotions don’t just affect our wellbeing; they shape our decisions, relationships, and overall success.
In this practical talk, bestselling author and award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross presents a groundbreaking toolkit for managing your emotions effectively, using immediately actionable, science-based strategies that you already have at your disposal. Drawing from his acclaimed book, Shift, Ethan shows how emotions aren’t just feelings—they’re data. And we can harness them as a strategic advantage rather than a source of stress.
Using riveting real-world stories and cutting-edge research, Ethan helps leaders, educators, parents, and individuals
Unleashing Your Inner Ted Lasso !
We can all unlock passionate high performance, creativity, and execution, all while avoiding burnout. The key? Becoming your own most powerful coach. Award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross offers concrete strategies for managing your self-talk—so you can manage others better. His research-based tactics (what he calls the “Swiss Army knife of the mind”) help boost motivation, overcome impostor syndrome, and hone your mental fitness.
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Leverage Ethan Kross’s Methods From Shift To Manage Your Emotions
Emotions are information. The better able we are to leverage and regulate them, the better we’ll become at thinking, leading, performing, and executing, says award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross. The author of the instant national bestseller Chatter, Ethan draws on his latest book Shift to give you a scientifically backed set of tools that can help anyone—from students to executives—lead themselves and build resilience. Shift is “a page-turner that’s grounded in science and filled with practical insights” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again). “If a company cares about thinking and performance, they have to care about emotion regulation,” Ethan says. “So start figuring out: What are the tools that work best for you?
We have everything we need to leverage our emotions (even the negative ones) to tap into high performance and powerful leadership at home and at work. Ethan Kross, award-winning psychology professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, says that we can change our lives by changing the way we think about and navigate our emotions. Drawing on his acclaimed books Chatter and Shift, he shows us how we can strengthen our emotional and mental fitness to find more meaning, satisfaction, and success in all areas of life. Ethan’s concrete strategies have proven to be an invaluable resource for everyone—from students to small business owners to CEOs—in any challenge or stressful situation. His science-based toolkit helps all kinds of leaders and employees to build wisdom and coach ourselves through every circumstance.
In his latest book Shift, Ethan dives into why we have emotions, and how we can leverage them. Through riveting stories of people struggling and succeeding to manage their emotions—from a nuclear code-carrying Navy SEAL to the mother whose fear prompted a split-second decision that saved her daughter’s life—he shows us the science-backed tools we can use to take advantage of our emotions in any situation. Lisa Damour, New York Times bestselling author of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers, says, “This must-read book will—without question—change your life for the better!”
In his first book, the national bestseller Chatter, Ethan provides us with simple, immediately actionable tools for harnessing our self-talk: like using your own name to give yourself a pep talk in high-pressure situations. Brilliantly argued and deeply compelling, Chatter has received praise from many remarkable leaders in the field, including Angela Duckworth, the world’s preeminent expert on grit, and New York Times bestselling author Dan Pink, who declares, “Ethan Kross has written the definitive work on how to redirect our inner voices away from rumination and self-criticism and toward reflection and self-improvement.” It was one of Amazon’s best non-fiction books of 2021.
An award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and the Ross School of Business, Ethan is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory, where he studies how people can control their emotions. Using an integrative approach to study these issues, Ethan draws on multiple disciplines within psychology, including social, personality, clinical, developmental, and neuroscience. He is also the faculty lead for the Research Innovation Core at the Eisenberg Family Depression Center, where he uses his vibrant ideas and strategic mind to focus on facilitating research innovations in the field of mental health.
Ethan has participated in policy discussions at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.
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