Neuroscience of Happiness
Feb 23, 2018
Ellen Leanse
Neuroscience of Happiness

  Our speaker on Friday is innovation coach and tech pioneer Ellen Petry Leanse, who has spent 35 years working with extraordinary leaders at Apple, Google, Facebook, and with dozens of tech startups.

  In her nine years at Apple she served on the Macintosh launch team (1984) and led the company's pioneering work in creating digital communities (1985). Her work since then has spanned entrepreneurship, investing, and strategy consulting. Today, combining decades of perspective with insights from neuroscience, design, and mindfulness practice, Ellen guides companies and individuals to “think different” about life satisfaction, relationships, impact, and the paths that build them.

  An author, Stanford instructor, and respected Silicon Valley influencer, Ellen is passionate about intentional living and how our brains can shape or interfere with our sense of purpose. She's been featured on CNN and in publications including Time, Vogue.com, Forbes, and Business Insider, and the CNN, and Today Show. Her book “The Happiness Hack," sharing brain-aware paths to increasing focus, connection, and life satisfaction was named by Evernote and The Mission as a top book of 2017. You can get a copy from Kepler’s, Books Inc., and Amazon, and she will be happy to stay after our meeting to sign them and answer any further questions.

You can find out more about Ellen’s work from an interview with her that appeared on CNBC 2/18/18 here:

  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/18/ellen-leanse-ex-google-and-apple-teaches-stanford-happiness-design.html