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Leslie John

  • Award-Winning Behavioral Scientist and Expert on Trust, Influence & Decision-Making
  • Author, Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing
  • James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University
  • Sought-After Advisor and Speaker to Leading Global Organizations

Funny, provocative, and endlessly engaging, Harvard Business School professor Leslie John has a gift for making people rethink what they thought they knew about human behavior. An award-winning behavioral scientist, she studies the choices people make in conversation and why our instincts about trust and influence are often spectacularly wrong.

John is the James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, but her work starts with questions that are anything but academic. How much is too much to share? Why can asking questions be more powerful than making an argument? Her forthcoming book, Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing, turns one of our most familiar social anxieties into a surprising case for greater openness.

On stage, John brings the energy of a great storyteller to the rigor of a Harvard researcher. Through humor and counterintuitive findings, she gives audiences a fresh way to understand the people around them and practical ideas for becoming more effective leaders and communicators.

 
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Revealing: The Underrated Power of Openness

Harvard Business School professor and award-winning behavioral scientist LESLIE JOHN challenges one of the most common assumptions about communication: that revealing less is safer. Drawing on her groundbreaking research and forthcoming book, Revealing, John shows that openness, when used wisely, can strengthen trust and increase influence. Audiences learn to think of revealing not as a personality trait, but as a skill they can use to communicate and lead more effectively.

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Why Smart People Make Surprising Decisions

Award-winning behavioral scientist and Harvard Business School professor LESLIE JOHN takes audiences inside the hidden psychology shaping decisions every day. From what people disclose to how they judge others, John reveals the gap between what people think will produce the best outcome and what the evidence actually shows. Engaging and highly practical, she gives audiences a behavioral scientist’s toolkit for recognizing faulty instincts and making smarter choices.

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