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

Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience whose work integrates neuroscience, behavioral economics, and psychology. Sharot holds a professorship in the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London, and is also on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. A graduate of New York University, she earned a master's in psychology and a doctorate in psychology and neuroscience. Before her academic career, Sharot worked in the financial industry, providing her research with a practical perspective.

Sharot is recognized for her research on the neural basis of emotion, decision making, and optimism. As director of the Affective Brain Lab, she leads research that combines neural imaging, pharmacological manipulation, and genetic principles to study human behavior and neurological mechanisms, with applications in addressing brain dysfunction. Her work in psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience explores the factors that shape decisions, beliefs, and expectations, and how these can be modified or maintained.

Sharot is the author of several books, including "The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain," which examines why the brain tends to overestimate positive outcomes. In this book and a TIME cover story, she discusses findings from social science and neuroscience to illuminate the evolutionary roots of human hopefulness. Her book "The Influential Mind" analyzes how influence is most effective when aligned with the core elements that govern thought and emotion. "The Influential Mind" was selected as a best book of the year by Forbes, The Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Greater Good Magazine, and Stanford Business School. Sharot also co-authored "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" with Cass R. Sunstein, exploring habituation and how awareness of this psychological adaptation can lead to a more examined life.

Sharot has received fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Forum of European Philosophy, and the British Academy, and won the British Psychological Society Book Award for both "The Optimism Bias" and "The Influential Mind." Her research has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, and Psychological Science.

Sharot's TED talks have accumulated more than 15 million views. She has written for The New York Times, Time, and The Washington Post, and has appeared on CNN, NBC, and MSNBC. Sharot has advised global companies and government projects, and her speaking audiences include Google, Microsoft, the European Parliament, NATO, Goldman Sachs, Prudential, and the World Economic Forum. She is known for explaining concepts in human behavior, decision science, and cognitive neuroscience in accessible ways, and for demonstrating how these insights can be applied in finance, marketing, health, and public policy.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/03/2026.

Dr. Tali Sharot Speaking Topics

  • LEADING with INFLUENCE: Using Data, Emotion and Narrative

    Part of our daily job 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– 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 influence will be successful only if it is well-matched with the core elements that govern how we think and feel. Sharot explains why providing data and numbers alone can be a weak approach to influence and why emotions and narrative often have strong impact. By understanding the minds and brains of those around us, we become better at advising and communicating information.

  • LOOK AGAIN: How to Notice and Change

    Even stimulating jobs, breathtaking works of art, an exciting new gadget, lose their sparkle after a while. We desensitize to what is wonderful around us. We also stop noticing what is not-so-great: cracks in a relationship, a culture of fraud that developed slowly within a company or the gradual rise of misinformation. It is not that we are lazy or stupid. It is simply that our brain evolved to respond to what is new and different, not to things that are constant or change gradually. As a result, we stop noticing what is suboptimal and so fail to try and make changes. We also stop noticing what is good in our lives and so we don’t feel the joy. But what if we could ‘dishabituate’? Based on her new book Look Again, Sharot shares what psychology and biology tell us about why we stop noticing both the great and not-so-great things around us and how to regain sensitivity in the office, at home, online, and at the store, so we can enjoy what is good and change what’s not.

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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 LEADING with INFLUENCE: Using Data, Emotion and Narrative, LOOK AGAIN: How to Notice and Change, WISE CHOICE: Making Better Decisions Using Behavioral Economics, BEHAVIORAL CHANGE: The Business of Moving Others and WELLBEING: Using Science to Improve Mental-Health. 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 Shawn Achor, Lisa Bodell, Erica Dhawan, Eduardo Briceño and Maddy Dychtwald. 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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