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I love speaking to audiences large and small about how to become better and more authentic communicators, embracing change and transformation, and how to improve our mental health and build resilience. I’ve given keynote talks and lectures at leading universities and research centers around the world, in art and science museums, while leading walks in the woods, at historic theaters, onstage at symphony halls, in Sigmund Freud's old living room, and once, on a floating platform in the Amazon Basin. Recent keynote talks and workshops include TED, Baird Capital Annual Meeting, Penn State University, MIT, Stanford University, Harvard School of Medicine, and the Advertising Women of NY. I am represented by the Lavin Agency.
To book me, please contact Charles Yao: cyao@thelavinagency.com.
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Laurel Braitman PhD is a New York Times bestselling author and the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Medicine & the Muse Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Society from MIT, and is a Senior TED Fellow. Her forthcoming book What Looks Like Bravery (March 2023, Simon & Schuster) is a memoir that explores the cost of holding in grief as a child, the power of facing it as an adult, and the ways that loss can transform us into the people we want to become. Her last book, Animal Madness, was a NYT bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. She is the founder of the global community of writing healthcare professionals, Writing Medicine, now in it’s third year. Her work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al Jazeera. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, on Radiolab, in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications.
Laurel splits her time between the remote Alaskan wilderness and her family’s citrus and avocado ranch in Southern California.