In this episode, we speak with Piyush Tantia, the Chief Innovation Officer and a Board Member at ideas42, an organization that he co-founded. ideas42 is a non-profit organisation that uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change. It is one of the leading practitioner organisations in our field and has contributed greatly to the growth of behavioral science over the past decade. During our conversation with Piyush, we...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University. Dr. Barrett is one of the top 1% most cited scientists in the world, and the author of two acclaimed books on the brain: How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life Of The Brain, and Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain. Her research examines emotion, behavior, and how the brain creates both.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School in negotiations, organizations and markets and is the author of the new book, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life. Her research mainly focuses on understanding how the daily and long-term decisions that people make about time and money (in their personal lives, their relationships, and at work) impact their wellbeing. During our conversation, we learned: - Some common...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Robert Frank, professor of economics at Cornell University's Graduate School of Management. A prolific author, Dr. Frank's most recent book is Under The Influence: Putting Peer Pressure To Work. His research examines breakdowns in traditional decision models, including both inefficiencies in collective actions and departures from rational choice in individuals. During our conversation we learned: • Different ways the traditional Rational Choice model...

In this very special episode, we turn the microphone on Eric Singler: the Founder, CEO and President of the BVA Nudge Unit. He is also Global Managing Director of the BVA Group, one of the 15 largest consulting and market research firms in the world (www.bva-group.com). Eric is a “slasher”: he is an entrepreneur, a marketing & research expert, a pioneer in applied behavioural sciences, an author and a lecturer. Listen in to hear about: - How Eric first discovered and became excited about...

We speak to Dr. Michael Hallsworth, Managing Director – North America for the Behavioural Insights Team and an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Columbia University. Michael has been a leading figure in developing the field of applying behavioral science to government and public policy and is co-author of the book, Behavioral Insights. Listen in to hear about: – How a hand washing study helped Michael realize the power of behavioral science – What Michael has learned from working with David...

In our next episode we speak to Annie Duke, former professional poker player and author in behavioral decision science and decision education. She is also author of Thinking in Bets and How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.  Listen in to hear about: - Annie's framework and six step process to make better decisions and avoid traps - Annie's unusual career path from cognitive psychology to poker - How very few decisions in life are chess-like – almost every decision is more...

Listen in to hear about… - How to change minds and incite action - Why traditional approaches to change are so ineffective - What the key barriers are to change and how to mitigate them - The mistake that many business leaders and governments make in trying to drive change - What Jonah has learned from studying urban legends and the spread of disinformation

On our next episode we speak to Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of the books Teaming and The Fearless Organization. In this episode we dive into: - The importance of psychological safety within organizations and its direct link to preventing failures. - Why organizations fail at psychological safety, including why employees fail to use their voice. - The best nudges to support the behaviors that lead to...

On our next episode we speak to Iris Bohnet, the Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and author of the book What Works: Gender Equality by Design. In this episode we dive into: – The application of behavioral economics, including the use of role models and norms, to accelerate gender equality – The role and impact of Diversity Training programs in the private sector, and what the data really shows – The ways in which Harvard has applied gender equality nudges to its environment and...

Dilip Soman is a Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics and serves as a Director of the Behavioural Economics in Action Research Centre at Rotman [BEAR]. His research is in the area of behavioural science and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. Please join us to hear… • How Dilip’s mechanical engineering experience with earth-moving machines got him interested in behavioral science • Three things that Dilip learned from Richard Thaler as a PhD...

Join us to hear: - How using mind maps to better understand the biases in recruitment changed the UK civil service’s approach to talent acquisition in the late 1990s/early 2000s - How reading the book Nudge while in Vietnam, confirmed Faisal’s curiosity and focus on understanding context, culture and behavior - How do you integrate Behavioral Science into organizations and really mainstream it - The importance of data and evidence to advance Behavioral Science as a field - The power of...

Listen in to hear: – How a VCR changed everything for Kelly and got her interested in behavioral sciences – Kelly’s roots in financial services and building empirical models to help predict risk – How she learned that listening to people never helps us get at what they truly need and value – The most satisfying aspect of Kelly’s 10+ years of applying behavioral science – Kelly’s perspective on freedom, unity and liberty – and how this relates to the American and Canadian responses to...

Caroline Webb: Upgrade Your Workday with Behavioral Science Our sixth episode features Caroline Webb, workplace productivity expert and author of the best-selling book How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life, which has been published in over 60 countries and in 14 languages. In this episode we learned: - What a “good day” at work looks like - How to avoid common productivity traps - Advice on making the best decisions in the workplace -...

During our fifth episode we speak to Harvard Business School’s Mike Luca and Max Bazerman, co-authors of the book The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World. In this episode we dive into: • How experiments were a necessary condition for the development of behavioral economics, and how without them, applied behavioral economics consultants would not exist. • The birth of experimentation in business and the role experiments are playing in shaping customer behavior. •...

Please join us to hear… - How an “Economics of Happiness” conference and a chance meeting with Daniel Kahneman changed Paul’s life - Why people are often poor at predicting how health issues will impact our happiness - Why we all need to “chill out”, stop reaching - and care less about others’ life choices - What organizations can do to promote happiness in the workplace - How the lockdown is experienced differently - and one positive outcome that Paul hopes will come from this...

Research conducted by Wendy Wood, psychologist and worldwide expert in habits, tells us that nearly 43% of the time people are engaging in habits, repeating behaviors that they’ve done in the past, in the same context, while they’re thinking about something other than what they’re doing. We spoke with Wendy Wood, the author of "Good Habits, Bad Habits, the science of making positive changes that stick", where we unpack what she’s learned over her 30+ year career studying habits.

In our next episode of B.E. GOOD!, we will be speaking with Cass Sunstein, one of the leading legal scholars who, for the past fifteen years, has been at the forefront of behavioral economics. Cass is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School and a prolific author, including the book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, which has had an enormous impact in the field. In this episode, we will: - Learn how...

During our first episode we are speaking with Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and author of three New York Times best-selling books, including Predictably Irrational. In this episode we dive into: • Dan’s frightening experience as a hospital patient, which later prompted him to launch an inquiry on how we can die better. • How finding his writing voice took him a while, and how his “cookbook” is still in the works. • Why an...