Dr. Eli Joseph

Dr. Eli Joseph is an engineer, inventor, statistician, futurist, author, and academic. He is credited with the invention of the extended reality (XR) book. In addition to serving as an associate faculty member at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, Joseph serves as a faculty member at New York University, UCLA, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth College. He is also a partner at ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company.

He is the author of the book entitled "The Perfect Rejection Resume." In this book, he encourages readers to draw inspiration from their failures, to understand and build on the lessons learned through failures, and to use failure as a tool to accomplish their goals.

Joseph is no stranger to failure and rejection. In his lifetime, he has been turned down by more than 1,500 employers, 30 colleges, and 75 scholarship foundations. Though Joseph experienced a plethora of rejections from various firms and institutions, he has overcome these challenges and used his failures as fuel for motivation to succeed.

He recently delivered two TEDx talks this fall entitled “Time Is Your Biggest Competition” and “No Trace, No Case.” Nicknamed "The Messenger," Eli Joseph's work has appeared in Fortune, Forbes, AdWeek, Inc Magazine, Fast Company, the New York Post, Black Enterprise, The Harvard Business Review, and many other publications. He earned his Doctorate in Business Administration from Felician University, becoming the first-ever graduate to complete the curriculum at the age of 24.