Cognitive Neuroscientist, Leading Expert on Human Decision-Making & Emotion; Award-Winning Author of "The Influential Mind" & "The Optimism Bias"

Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Tali Sharot Biography

Professor Tali Sharot is a leading expert on decision-making and emotion. Sharot combines research in behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to reveal the forces that shape our decisions and beliefs. Her award winning books - "The Influential Mind" and "The Optimism Bias" – have been widely praised, including by the New York Times, Forbes and more.

Her speaking audiences also include Google, Microsoft, The European Parliament, NATO, Goldman Sachs, Prudential, the World Economic Forum, among many others. She has written for top publications including TIME magazine, The Guardian, and the New York Times.

Professor Sharot has been a guest multiple times on CNN, MSNBC among others and co-presented BBC’s Science Club. She held prestigious fellowships from the British Academy and Wellcome Trust.

Professor Sharot currently divides her time between MIT and University College London where she directs the Affective Brain Lab. Her TED talks have been viewed over 17 million times.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 11/07/2025.

Dr. Tali Sharot Speaking Topics

  • Mental Time Travel: optimism, imagination, and how thinking about the future alters the present

    As our world is rapidly changing, companies and governments are occupied with the question of what the future holds. Imagining the future is a marvellous ability that can foster creativity and innovation. But our capacity to think about the future is also constrained

    • by the past, by what we hope will be true and by our current beliefs. In this talk, Sharot shares what science tells us about the human ability for “mental time travel”; how we can use this skill to our advantage avoiding poor planning and systematic mispredictions. Sharot builds on her pioneering discoveries in this area, described in her book ‘The Optimism Bias’, to explain how we can better prepare for, and shape, the future, today.

  • Influence: How You Affect the Opinions, Decisions and Desires of Others

    Part of our daily job as humans is to affect others; we advise our clients, guide our patients, teach our children and inform our online followers. Yet, science shows we systematically fall on to suboptimal habits when trying to change others' beliefs

    • from insisting the other is wrong to exerting control. Based on her award-winning book, The Influential Mind, internationally acclaimed behavioral neuroscientist, Tali Sharot, explains how an attempt to alter beliefs will be successful only if it is well-matched with the core elements that govern how we think and feel. By understanding the minds and brains of those around us, we become better at advising and communicating information.

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Dr. Tali Sharot Videos

Highlights: Dr. Tali Sharot at JFN 2019

Highlights: Dr. Tali Sharot at JFN 2019

Dr. Sharot is a a leading expert on human decision-making, optimism and emotion, combining research in psychology, behavioral economics, and...

Dr. Tali Sharot — What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to ...

Dr. Tali Sharot — What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to ...

Listen to the Podcast (audio) version: https://goo.gl/1axTH4 In her new book, The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes readers on...

Tali Sharot: "The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our ...

Tali Sharot: "The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our ...

Tali Sharot explains how an attempt to change beliefs and actions of others is successful when it is well-matched with the core elements that ...

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Dr. Tali Sharot is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Mental Time Travel: optimism, imagination, and how thinking about the future alters the present , Influence: How You Affect the Opinions, Decisions and Desires of Others, Smart Choice: Making Better Decisions using behavioural science, The Business of Moving Others: Using the New Science of the Mind to Induce Behavioral Change, Moving Forward and Raising our Heads out of the Sand – Effective Decision Making and How to Avoid Pitfalls by Managing the “Ostridge Effect”. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dr. Tali Sharot for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Dr. Tali Sharot generally travels from Boston, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Nataly Kogan, Shawn Achor, Dr. Jackie Freiberg, Erica Dhawan and Adrian Gostick. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dr. Tali Sharot for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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