Amy Cuddy

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Social Psychologist & Award-Winning Harvard Lecturer; Bestselling Author, "Presence"; Authority on Stereotyping, Prejudice & Behavior Under Stress

Boston, MA, USA
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Author, Business, Culture, Disruptive Thinking, Influential Women, Innovation, Inspirational, Marketing, Mental Health, Music, Overcoming Adversity, Psychology, Social Sciences, Stress Management, Technology, TED, Women
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Amy Cuddy Biography

Dr. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. 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. She asks the crucial question of how can we improve our relationships, performance, and wellbeing by harnessing our personal power and taking control of our own thoughts, feelings, and actions?

After earning her Ph.D. at Princeton University, she was a professor at Harvard Business School (2008-2017) and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (2006-2008). Throughout her academic career, she’s been honored with some of the highest commendations for both her teaching and her research, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from Harvard University (2018) and the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (2022) for her extensive research on intergroup conflict. She continues to teach as a guest lecturer in Executive Education at Harvard Business School and at UCLA-Anderson School of Management.

Her 2012 TED Talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are,” is the second-most popular of all time, with more than 70 million views. Her NYT bestseller, Presence, described in the NYT Sunday Book Review as “…concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious - above all, truly powerful,” has sold more than half a million copies and been published in 35 languages. In 2025, she will publish her next book, "Bullies, Bystanders, & Bravehearts" (HarperCollins), on the psychology of bullying among adults — and how we find the courage and tools to stop it. She’s also an avid roller skater and skier, live-music lover (actually, a devoted Deadhead!), adventuring partner to her husband Paul, and hype mom to her son, Jonah, a guitarist, producer, songwriter, and student at Berklee College of Music. She lives in Venice, California.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/14/2025.

Amy Cuddy Speaking Topics

  • Personal Power & Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

    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, focusing on:

    • What holds us back from being present and effective in these challenging situations?
    • How does feeling powerless (vs. powerful) affect our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, in turn undermining our ability to be smart, creative, attentive, and effective when we most need to be?
    • How do we retrain our nervous systems to liberate us — rather than inhibit us — in these moments?
    • How does our own presence help others to be present — and facilitate the building of trust in stressful interactions?
    • What does powerful vs. powerless body language look like?
    • Can we adapt our own body language — breathing, speech patterns, simple and complex posture, and movement — to directly affect how powerful we feel (and how powerful we appear to others)?

    Audiences will be moved and inspired, leaving Amy’s keynote with a fresh, life-changing perspective on themselves and their interactions, and a concrete and immediately-actionable set of simple techniques to harness their own personal power and presence, freeing them to perform and interact at their very best — and empower others to do the same.

  • Moving Forward in the Flux Era: From Flux Syndrome to Flux Recovery

    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. And 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. With her extensive background in cutting-edge behavioral science and research, Amy Cuddy offers answers in this groundbreaking and energizing talk on the workforce’s most top-of-mind questions around returning to work, such as:

    • How do we approach returning to the office in this new era?
    • How do we handle contentious conversations about how to return to work?
    • How do we create workplace environments and cultures that are welcoming and inclusive to people working both in-person and virtually?
    • And how do we re-empower and reset our employees so that they can thrive in the Flux Era?
    • How do leaders better understand and respond to mental health challenges?

    Combining her openness and warmth with her deep expertise, Amy delivers this timely speech on how to come to terms with and thrive in these tumultuous times.

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Amy Cuddy Videos

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Some of life’s biggest hurdles call for moments of sincerity and control. Too often, we approach these high-pressure moments with fear and execute...

Adobe & Women Leadership Summit Speaker: Amy Cuddy

Adobe & Women Leadership Summit Speaker: Amy Cuddy

Social psychologist and best selling author Amy Cuddy shares her thoughts on how we can take bold steps to build our presence both inside ...

Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy

Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" --...

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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

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Amy Cuddy is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Personal Power & Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Moving Forward in the Flux Era: From Flux Syndrome to Flux Recovery, Identity & Intergroup Conflict: Exploring the Anatomy of Bias in a Divided World and The Science & Social Impact of Bravery — & How We Can Use it to End Bullying. The estimated speaking fee range to book Amy Cuddy for your event is $50,000 - $100,000. Amy Cuddy 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 Simon Sinek, Erica Dhawan, Daymond John, Shawn Achor and Cassandra Worthy. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Amy Cuddy for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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