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    Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD Profile

    Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD

    Cognitive and Humanistic Psychologist; Founder and Director, Center for Human Potential; Professor, Columbia University; Honorary Principal Fellow, Center for Wellbeing Science, University of Melbourne; Former Scientific Director, The Imagination Institute, University of Pennsylvania; Host of the #1 Psychology Podcast, The Psychology Podcast, with over 30 million downloads; Columnist, “Beautiful Minds,” Scientific American; Author, Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential (2025), Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization (2020), Twice Exceptional (2018), and Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined (2015); Co-Author, Learned Helplessness (2020), Choose Growth: A Workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear, and Self-Doubt (2022), Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (2016), and “Imagination Is the Seed of Creativity” (2018, The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity) 
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    Past Talks

    Teaching Executive Skills
    Applying Brain Science to Boost Memory, Attention, and Emotion Regulation for Learning
    Effects of Anxiety and Stress on Achievement
    Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel, New York, NY
    April 16-18, 2026
    Future-Ready Brains
    Teaching Students to Think, Create, Innovate, Learn, and Adapt for an Anxious, AI Age
    7. Teaching Teen Brains
    NY Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
    April 18-20, 2024
    Teaching Purposeful Brains
    Creating Meaning, Curiosity, and Connections to Help Kids Learn and Thrive in Uncertain Times
    Visual Minds: Media, Reading ghj_amp Intervention
    Virtual Conference
    April 17-18, 2021
    Schooling the Self (Cancelled)
    Promoting Self-Compassion, Awareness, and Authenticity in Schools
    Effects of Anxiety and Stress on Achievement
    New York, NY
    May 01-03, 2020
    Reaching for Greatness
    Unleash Potential, Passions, and Creative Talents in Students with Cognitive Science
    Reflective Minds & Metacognition
    Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA
    November 16-18, 2018