Feb 02 - 04 2025
Social psychologist, NYT-bestselling author, and award-winning Harvard lecturer Dr. Amy Cuddy is an expert on the behavioral science of power, presence, and prejudice
Dr. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist, bestselling author, and acclaimed keynote speaker. She is also well-known for her keynote and motivational speaking. Her writing, research, teaching, and speaking focus on presence and performance under stress, the causes and outcomes of feeling powerful vs. powerless, prejudice and stereotyping, nonverbal behavior, the delicate balance of projecting trustworthiness and strength, and most recently, the psychology of bullying, bystanding, and social bravery.
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During college, Amy Cuddy suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Doctors said she would struggle to fully regain her mental capacity and finish her undergraduate degree. She proved them wrong, eventually earning her doctorate from Princeton in 2005.
Her remarkable road to recovery, battle against imposter syndrome, and ultimate ascension have become a foundational part of her journey as a social scientist. It’s also a facet of her life that resonates powerfully with a strikingly broad range of people.
Amy has earned numerous awards over her esteemed career. Among the most prominent, she has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of 50 Women Changing the World by Business Insider, a Top 50 Management Thinker by Thinkers50, and one of the BBC 100 Women.
Since earning her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005, Amy has served as a full-time professor at Rutgers University (2005-2006), Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management (2006-2008), and Harvard Business School (2008-2017). As a Harvard Lecturer in 2018, she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. She has also taught in Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School and, more recently, UCLA Anderson School of Management.
For over 20 years, Amy has rigorously researched stereotyping and prejudice, nonverbal behavior, and presence and performance under stress. Her doctoral dissertation at Princeton University presented a paradigm-shifting scientific model that became one of the most cited theories in social psychology — and ultimately changed psychologists’ understanding of the nature and mechanics of prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and even more broadly, how we form first impressions of each other.
In short, her research revealed that (1) people immediately evaluate each other on two dimensions: warmth/trustworthiness and competence/strength; and (2) these evaluations, accurate or not, powerfully direct how they feel about and interact with each other. This theory has changed both academic and popular thinking on leadership, marketing, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
In 2022, Amy and her co-authors on this work, Profs. Susan Fiske and Peter Glick, earned the Scientific Impact Award, an award given annually to the most impactful paper in social psychology.
Top academic journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and a range of internationally-known publications, like The Economist, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Fast Company have all cited Amy’s research. She has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and BBC World News, among others. Amy has also written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and CNN.
Her 2012 TED Talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are,” has more than 73 million views – making it the third-most popular TED video of all time. Named by The Guardian as “One of 20 Online Talks that Could Change Your Life,” her talk has influenced how building confidence under stressful situations is taught and practiced worldwide. A pop-culture phenomenon, Amy and her keynote have been referenced in the TV shows Ted Lasso, Grey’s Anatomy (four times), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Bold Type, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and others.
Amy’s first book Presence is a New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, and Globe & Mail bestseller. The book has been published in 35 languages and sold over half a million copies. As described in the New York Times Sunday Book Review:
“Cuddy brings an abundance of humility and charm to the page. Her presence itself–her openhearted desire to help the insecure and the uneasy in this age of anxiety–shines through. Presence feels at once concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious–above all, truly powerful.”
In 2025, Amy will publish her next book, Bullies, Bystanders, & Bravehearts. The book delves into the psychological causes and consequences of bullying among adults – a pervasive and often devastating problem. Propelled by extraordinary new insights, she’ll share the concrete steps that we must all take to move toward social bravery in our daily lives and broader culture, concluding that we all have the power to become bravehearts.
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With her eloquent, relatable, and warm-hearted delivery, Amy Cuddy moves and inspires listeners through her transformational theories that show us how everyone can harness their own power and bravery.
No matter the forum, she conveys a rare combination of wisdom and deep expertise — along with honest, warm-hearted accessibility and openness. Whether she talks to a group of 100 or 20,000, she creates an unparalleled intimacy with her audiences.
Bestowing advice that is both practical and profound, Amy enthralls listeners with evidence-based and immediately actionable tips for achieving greater success – highlighting scientifically grounded strategies for becoming more present, influential, compassionate, and satisfied in their professional and personal lives.
Before stepping on stage, Amy invests considerable time in understanding your audience’s challenges, energy, concerns, and hopes. She enjoys working with event coordinators to customize her talks, combining elements from her different but interrelated topic areas to create the perfect keynote for each audience.
Rather than focusing solely on her personal experiences, Amy encourages audiences to connect the lessons to their own lives. Through Amy’s unique approach of adapting the “case method” (a technique she’s honed through her years of teaching at Harvard Business School), Amy engages audiences in applying social science concepts and practical tools to their real-world challenges and triumphs. She ensures your audience is immersed in an emotional and intellectual journey, where social science meets compelling storytelling. If you’d like to discuss tailoring Amy’s keynote for your event, schedule a Zoom call with Amy Cuddy and the MPG team.
Many of our biggest challenges call for us to be calmly confident, focused, and open to hearing others. Too often, we approach these high-pressure interactions with fear, execute with anxiety and distraction, and leave with regret. Based on her best-selling book Presence, Amy draws from psychology and neuroscience research, personal narratives, and her own challenges. Audiences will be moved and inspired, leaving Amy’s keynote with a fresh, life-changing perspective on themselves and their interactions as well as a concrete and immediately actionable set of techniques to harness their power and presence, freeing them to perform and interact at their very best — and empower others to do the same.
The pandemic and concurrent economic and cultural shifts have propelled workers and leaders into a new “Flux Era.” This new and ongoing flux has created a stew of conflicting emotions — hope, fear, excitement, dispiritedness, relief, and tension. Although human beings are more resilient than we generally appreciate, this psychological tilt-a-whirl has caused many of us to feel a loss of agency, leading us to make rash decisions.
Combining her openness and warmth with her deep expertise in behavioral science, Amy delivers this in this groundbreaking and energizing speech on how to come to terms with and thrive in these tumultuous times. She offers answers to the workforce’s most top-of-mind questions about returning to work.
For more than twenty years, Amy Cuddy has been studying and writing about intergroup bias and the psychological underpinnings of how we judge and treat others.
She breaks down who and why we envy, pity, admire, and hate. Why do we bend over backward to help some people – while turning a blind eye to the mistreatment of others? Why do we assume some people will be allies and others, predators? And how do those feelings and interactions affect how we see ourselves, and how we feel and behave in the future?
As her primary area of research, Amy draws from a deep well of knowledge and science to present a powerful and provocative evidence-based discussion that helps audiences understand how bigotry often plays a starring role in prejudice and workplace mobbing.
Our biases – whether simple or complex – impact the quality of our interactions and our productivity at work, says Cuddy. With potency and warmth, she shares with audiences how to reject and transcend stereotypes that divide and disempower,so that we can band together to categorically reject harassment and bullying at work.
Social media is rocket fuel for our worst impulses – exacerbating incivility and bullying among adults both online and offline. But the same psychological mechanisms that elicit bullying – tribalism, the influence of norms, and the desire for status – can just as easily be used to decrease bullying and increase bravery. The same human tendencies that are activated for bad, can be activated for good.
In this talk, based on her forthcoming book, Bullies, Bystanders, and Bravehearts (HarperCollins, 2025) Amy covers the staggering psychological, physical, and socio-economic costs of bullying to individuals, organizations, and societies – and the unprecedented and surprising opportunities we have to engage in and lead through social bravery. She compellingly demonstrates that when we understand the psychology of these dynamics, virtually all of us will have the power to be bravehearts, rather than passive bystanders.
A renowned social psychologist, Amy Cuddy shares an acute combination of scientific expertise and first-hand experience, drawing both from her personal journey and the stories of others to deliver this important keynote.
“So powerful to hear personal experiences from someone so well versed in their field. Amy just seems so down to earth and approachable. Everything she spoke about from imposter syndrome to bullying to being our best most confident version of ourselves resonated in some way.” – Technology
“Amy infused our Women@Goodwin event with energy, passion and levity as she talked about presence! She was such a gem and a pure joy to work with. Amy was also lovely to every member of our 200+ person audience. She took photos and signed books of every single person who was queued up to meet with her. We hope to have the opportunity to work with Amy again!” – Goodwin Procter (Law)
“She was great! People were raving about her for hours! She was super easy to work with, arrived early, hung out, and really did a killer job!” – Real Estate
“I wanted to reach out on behalf of all of us at Automotive News to thank Amy Cuddy for a fantastic Automotive News Leading Women Conference. It was an outstanding event, with a sold-out, interested and engaged audience that really enjoyed her presentation. Words that kept popping up in relation to her and her presentation in our survey responses were “authentic,” “sincere,” “engaging,” and “real.” She knocked it out of the park. And the book signing afterwards was a huge success!” – Automotive News (Publishing)
MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence.
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.
By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives.
Brilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Every reader will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret.
"Presence feels at once concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious — above all, truly powerful." —New York Times Book Review
