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Speakers
[ Malcolm Gladwell ]
 Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for generating value by interpreting groundbreaking research in psychology, sociology and neurology and applying it to business. He is the author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers With his first book Malcolm embedded the concept of The Tipping Point in our everyday vocabulary and gave organizations new tools for understanding how and why change happens, and how to create positive epidemics of ideas and behavior.
In Blink he analyzes intuition—the judgments we make unconsciously and instinctively—and he explores how we can master this important aspect of successful decision-making.
Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and delightfully warm and funny. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and was formerly a reporter for The Washington Post.
The Books
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
In the Blink of an eye, the unconscious mind decides a lot of (often very important) things for us without our even knowing what we know or how we know it. In his groundbreaking book Blink, Malcolm describes how we make these intuitive decisions—both the good ones and the bad—and why some people are so much better at it than others. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how good decision-making depends, not on how well we process information consciously, but on the few particular details we focus on unconsciously. And he explains how we can improve our intuitive instincts for interpreting these details correctly to become better decision makers—in our homes, in our offices, and in everyday life. The implications for business practice are enormous. Full of extraordinary stories about how thinking without thinking works, this book and Malcolm’s presentations can enlighten anyone for whom human interaction deeply affects what they do.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm describes how trends work and he helps companies apply this knowledge to their own business strategies. Using the principles of epidemiology—the study of epidemics—to understand the movement of ideas, he explains how trends start and spread and he offers tools for igniting, steering and/or sustaining the trends that matter to his audiences. He helps organizations identify the people who are crucial to the trend process and how to deploy their talents strategically. The ideas in The Tipping Point have kept the book on various bestseller lists since it was published five years ago. His presentations on the ideas behind The Tipping Point have made him one of our most sought-after thought leaders.
Credentials
Staff writer for The New Yorker
Former science and medicine writer for The Washington Post
Nominated for a National Magazine Award
"Blew them away!!! He was energetic, positive and fabulous! You have a scale - he blew past it. Next year's event is leading towards thought leaders."
A major event for association executives
Dear Malcolm,
In all my years of producing conferences, I have never had a keynoter be so much on target, be so aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, and be so nice to work with as you were this week.
Our people will be talking about your presentation for years. Not merely were you very informative in a practical way, you did it with such delightful humor. Even more importantly, you set the stage perfectly for the "rally" session that followed. In that forum, numerous members who addressed the group referred to points you made and terms you used.
Malcolm, again thank you so much for joining us and being so responsive to our needs. It was a pleasure and honor to work with you.
Director, Education and Conferences, for a state-wide public sector association
Dear Leigh Bureau
In one word?? Amazing!!!!
I told Malcolm right after he finished that he made my career—and I was right! They've already asked me to design next year's meeting agenda and hire the speaker!
I had so many compliments from people who are usually very cynical about corporate meetings and events. You wouldn't even believe it! I can't wait to see the evaluation results!
Thanks again!!! He was a hit.
Annual Senior Executive meeting for a major hospitality & travel firm
Malcolm was wonderful on Saturday, he won us over from the beginning, and he did a great job tailoring his presentation to the legal audience. He was also terrific about fielding questions from the larger audience as well as one-on-one. Thanks so much for facilitating Malcolm's appearance with us.
A university dean's dinner
Dear Malcolm:
I want to thank you again for your participation in our recent management group meeting. My colleagues and I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you, and you got rave reviews from our member.
Your thoughtful insights resonated with our global leadership group. I think many of them were surprised at the relevance of your perspective to their own leadership challenges. This is high praise from a group of largely technically oriented, engineering types!
We ask members to give us feedback on speakers, and I wanted you to know that they gave you the highest ranking of any external speaker in the last 7 years – basically as long as we’ve been keeping track of the ratings.
The most repeated comment on your speech was, "thought provoking”. Some representative comments
"Unique perspective, engaging, thought provoking” "Good food for thought. Not America centered, very interesting, excellent analogies” "Certainly thought provoking. Great use of non-technical analogies to draw similarities, yet get out of the box.”
Thanks for getting our meeting off to a great start.
I hope that we meet again in the future.
A major glass company
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