Constellation is pleased to announce social psychologist and body language researcher, Amy Cuddy, is speaking at Connected Enterprise.
About Amy Cuddy
Cuddy's work on power posing — brief, nonverbal expressions of competence and power — has won praise worldwide. Her TED talk, “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are”, posted in October 2012, has been streamed over 26 million times and is the second-most viewed video on the TED site. Mashable.com chose it as one of 15 TED Talks That Will Change Your Life. The Guardian calls it one of 20 Online Talks That Could Change Your Life.
Cuddy's work shows that your physical posture not only affects how others see you, but also how you see yourself, your own hormone levels, and your performance and important life outcomes. Power posing — even for as little as two minutes before as stressful social evaluation, like a job interview — can actually alter an individual at the biological level and prepare the brain for stressful, high-stakes situations.
In 2014, Cuddy was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. TIME magazine named her one of 2012’s “Game Changers” and Business Insider chose her as one of the 50 Women Who Are Changing The World, 2013. Her article “Connect, Then Lead” was one of Harvard Business Review’s Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013.
Cuddy's groundbreaking research has been published in top academic journals and she has received numerous accolades and academic awards. Her work was featured in Harvard Business Review’s Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 (“Just because I’m nice, don’t assume I’m dumb”), Scientific American Mind in 2010 (“Mixed impressions: How we judge others on multiple levels”), and as one of the Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010 by Psychology Today. She writes and blogs for Harvard Business Review.
Amy holds a PhD in Psychology from Princeton University and BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado. Prior to joining HBS, she was an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. At Harvard, Amy teaches MBA, executive education, and doctoral courses on influence & persuasion, leadership, and decision making. She is also a classically trained (and still practicing) ballet dancer, which informs her research on nonverbal communication.
Session Information
November 5, 2015 8:00 p.m.
Presence - An Evening With Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions.
