BrightSight Speakers

READ: What Steve Jobs Knew That AI Doesn’t - "Humans are wired to respond to emotions, not AI algorithms"

Carmine Gallo @ Inc » www.inc.com/carmine-gall...

Learn more about Carmine here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

To Drive AI Adoption, Build Your Team’s Product Management Skills To unlock the real value of generative AI at work, employees need an unexpected set of skills: those of a product manager. Defining high-value problems, finding the right digital tools to solve them, ...

READ: Melissa Valentine — co-author of Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work — has penned a new piece for the Harvard Business Review hbr.org/2026/02/to-d...

Learn more about Melissa and her work here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

LISTEN: Are we in an economic 'doom loop'?
Eswar Prasad joins NPR Planet Money to discuss his new book www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...

Learn more about Eswar here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT TODAY: The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder, the new book by Eswar Prasad » amzn.to/49XiPOJ

Read a review at FT www.ft.com/content/d58d...

And learn more about Eswar here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: Forbes has featured the work of Rich Hua, Former Chief EQ Evangelist and Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon & Founder of the EQ@Amazon initiative www.forbes.com/sites/kevink...

Learn more about Rich here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

When AI Amplifies the Biases of Its Users Bias in AI isn’t just baked into the training data; it’s shaped by us and embedded in the broader ecosystem of human-AI interaction. This cognitive bias emerges from the dynamic interplay between huma...

READ: When AI Amplifies the Biases of Its Users - Dr. Heidi Grant has co-authored a new piece for the Harvard Business Review on #GenerativeAI hbr.org/2026/01/when...

Learn more about Heidi here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT NOW: the new book from Netta Jenkins, Supercharged Teams: How Every Manager Can Create a Culture of Excellence amzn.to/49RVVXD

Learn more about Netta here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

What are We Gonna Do Now? Winning The Era of Superhumanity We must cultivate our sources of taste, override the ancestral “logic” that has restrained us since the dawn of humanity, and learn to be jazz partners with thinking technologies.

READ: "What are We Gonna Do Now? Winning The Era of Superhumanity" - the latest edition of Scott Belsky's subtack IMPLICATIONS www.implications.com/p/what-are-w...

Learn more about Scott here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

LISTEN: the debut episode of Thomas Goetz's new podcast DRUG STORY on EpiPen and Food Allergies: A story about unexpected reactions and unintended consequences www.drugstory.co/p/episode-1-...

Learn more about Thomas here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: Eswar Prasad's latest Financial Times piece "China’s $1tn trade surplus is a problem for Beijing—and the world" www.ft.com/content/42c7... [pay-wall]

Learn more about Eswar here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

Marc Dunkelman's book Why Nothing Works continues to garner accolades - recently named among the best books of the year by The Economist www.economist.com/culture/2025... and The Financial Times www.ft.com/content/c44a...

Learn more about Marc here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: Laurence Kotlikoff at the Financial Times on how to make Argentina grow again www.ft.com/content/27e5...

Learn more about Laurence here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

LISTEN: "Why Following Your Dreams Isn’t Enough" - Huggy Rao guests on the @HiddenBrain podcast www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/why-...

Learn more about Huggy here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

In honor of Veterans Day, the documentary “Call to Serve” about Team Rubicon premiered on Hulu and Disney+. Watch the trailer below. And learn more about:

TR CEO Art delaCruz www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...
TR Founder Jake Wood www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT TODAY: Your Kid Belongs Here: An Insider's Guide to Parenting Neurodiverse Children - the new book by Katie Rose Guest Pryal amzn.to/4p9YZVb

A compassionate and comprehensive guide to parenting neurodivergent children.

Learn more about Katie here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT TODAY: the new book by Stephen G. Post, 'Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace' » amzn.to/4hR0tkM

Learn more about Stephen here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: "In Defense of American Hypocrisy" by Shadi Hamid - author of the new book The Case for American Power - at TIME » time.com/7330080/defe...

Learn more about Shadi here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

Coming in January - a new podcast from Thomas Goetz. Every episode of DRUG STORY uses one prescription drug to tell surprising, true tales about the business of disease and health. Learn more here » drugstory.co/podcast

And learn more about Thomas here » brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Beth Macy Returned Home to Ohio to Reckon with America’s Divisions | Amanpour and Company

WATCH: "Beth Macy Returned Home to Ohio to Reckon with America’s Divisions" on Amanpour and Company www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj1M...

Beth is the author of the new book PAPER GIRL - learn more here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: "AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All" - Brian Merchant talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test WIRED www.wired.com/story/ai-bub... [paywall]

Learn more about Brian here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: André Martin on how "Brilliant brands can help us fall back in love with work" www.dukece.com/insights/the...

Learn more about André's work here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT TODAY: 'My One-of-a-Kind Body: The Ultimate Guide to Caring For Me' by Whitney Casares

Get the book at Amazon or wherever you get your books » amzn.to/4oph0OK

And learn more about Whitney here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

READ: "The NIMBY in Chief" at The Atlantic

Marc Dunkelman on how Donald Trump is using the power of the White House to load public-works projects down with bureaucracy www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Learn more about Marc here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

Congrats to Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein - their new book Flash Teams became a National Bestseller as of today! www.usatoday.com/booklist/pag...

Learn more about these BrightSight Speakers here » www.brightsightspeakers.com

Opinion | What It Takes for a Working-Class Kid to Get a College Education

READ: Beth Macy - author of “Dopesick” and the forthcoming “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America” - has penned a new The New York Times op-ed on "What It Takes for a Working-Class Kid to Get a College Education." Read here » www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Best Books of October 2025, as chosen by the Amazon Editors Richard Osman's "The Impossible Fortune," Beth Macy's "Paper Girl," Lily King's "Heart the Lover," and more.

Beth Macy's new book, Paper Girl (OUT NEXT WEEK), has been named one of October 2025's BEST by Amazon »
www.amazon.com/amazonbookre...

Learn more about Beth here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

YouTube video by TED Can AI Make Us More Human? A Social Psychologist + a Business Leader Answer | TED Intersections

WATCH: a TED Talks Intersections discussion with social psychologist Heidi Grant - "Can #AI Make Us More Human?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd2A...

Out one week from today: the new book by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered A.I.'s Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, FLASH TEAMS. Pre-order here » amzn.to/4pJWxWB

And learn more about these authors & BrightSight Speakers at our website » www.brightsightspeakers.com

Thinkers50 Ranking & Awards Nominations 2025 Nominations are now open for the 2025 Thinkers50 Ranking and Distinguished Achievement Awards.

ALISON TAYLOR - author of Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World - has been named to the Thinkers 50 2025 Leadership Award shortlist thinkers50.com/awards-2025/...

Learn more about Alison here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...

OUT TODAY: The new book from bestselling author BARRY SCHWARTZ:'Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making' — get it at Amazon or wherever you get your books amzn.to/42Hn7FJ

And learn more about Barry here » www.brightsightspeakers.com/speakers-a-z...