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Jeffrey Kluger

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

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Jeffrey Kluger Biography

Jeffrey Kluger is a senior editor and writer at Time magazine, principally covering science and social issues.

In his newest book Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple (Hyperion) he adeptly translates a newly evolving science into a delightful theory of everything that will have audiences rethinking the rules of business, family, art – and the world around us in much the same way that Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Predictably Irrational have done.

A seasoned speaker, Kluger explaines how the fascinating theory of simplexity can be applied and made relevant to a diverse range of groups from the corporate world to academic campuses to the realms of politics, the arts, sports, medicine, science, and psychology.

Quite simply, the concept of simplexity shows how things that seem complicated can be preposterously simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. In entertaining, informative and eye-opening lectures, Kluger reveals the surprising truths of simplexity such as: how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; and why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. 

In introducing this concept, he provides audiences with new insight to the following areas:

    Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?

    Why do we always worry about the wrong things?

    Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many?

    Why does a small child talking to a parent learn more from that brief encounter than during a full day in school?

    Why does the addition of a new bridge or tunnel actually make traffic tie-ups worse?

    Why do voters who are given a lot of electoral choices often end up electing a candidate most of them don’t want?

    Why when a football team is trailing its opponent, is it better to attempt a failed touchdown than go for the sure thing – a field goal?

    Why the American and National Leagues mirror the global economy?

    Why we all worry most about the least harmful diseases or the wrong injury risks?

During his tenure at Time, Kluger has written hundreds of stories, including 23 cover stories. Among them are 2003’s coverage of the loss of the shuttle Columbia, 2005’s cover on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and a 2001 cover on global warming, which won the Overseas Press Club Award for best environmental reporting of the year.

Before coming to Time, Kluger worked for Discover magazine, where he was a senior editor and humor columnist. Prior to that, he was health editor at Family Circle magazine, a story editor at The New York Times Business World Magazine, and associate editor at Science Digest.

His feature articles and columns have appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Omni, McCall’s, New York magazine, The New York Post, Newsday, and, of course, Time.

He is the co-author, along with astronaut Jim Lovell, of the best-seller Apollo 13, the book that served as the basis of the 1995 movie. He is the sole author of 1998's Moonhunters, which told the story of the unmanned exploration of the solar system.

He is also the author of Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine, and the novel, Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats.

He is currently writing a book about siblings - the science, the psychology, the emotional mysteries.

His young adult novel, Freedom Stone, will be published in late 2010.

Kluger has worked as an adjunct instructor in the graduate journalism program at New York University; is a licensed – though non-practicing – attorney; and is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

He lives in New York City with his wife and daughters.

Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple

    The Simplexity of Investing and the Stock Market

   

Skills vs. Pay and Product vs. Profit in Business

   

The 10 vs. 90 Percent Rule in Medicine

   

The Simplexity of Politics, Sports, the Arts, and Science

   

Expert Speaker on the Topics of Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology

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The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us

The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us

Freedom Stone

Freedom Stone

Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

Nacky Patcher & the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats

Nacky Patcher & the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar Systems

Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar Systems

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    Speaking fees for Jeffrey Kluger, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Jeffrey Kluger are $20,000 - $30,000 for live events and available upon request for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Jeffrey Kluger, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Jeffrey Kluger speak about?

  • Where does Jeffrey Kluger travel from?

    Jeffrey Kluger generally travels from New York, NY, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Jeffrey Kluger’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Jeffrey Kluger for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jeffrey Kluger for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Jeffrey Kluger or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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Jeffrey Kluger Biography

Jeffrey Kluger is a senior editor and writer at Time magazine, principally covering science and social issues.

In his newest book Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple (Hyperion) he adeptly translates a newly evolving science into a delightful theory of everything that will have audiences rethinking the rules of business, family, art – and the world around us in much the same way that Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Predictably Irrational have done.

A seasoned speaker, Kluger explaines how the fascinating theory of simplexity can be applied and made relevant to a diverse range of groups from the corporate world to academic campuses to the realms of politics, the arts, sports, medicine, science, and psychology.

Quite simply, the concept of simplexity shows how things that seem complicated can be preposterously simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. In entertaining, informative and eye-opening lectures, Kluger reveals the surprising truths of simplexity such as: how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; and why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. 

In introducing this concept, he provides audiences with new insight to the following areas:

    Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?

    Why do we always worry about the wrong things?

    Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many?

    Why does a small child talking to a parent learn more from that brief encounter than during a full day in school?

    Why does the addition of a new bridge or tunnel actually make traffic tie-ups worse?

    Why do voters who are given a lot of electoral choices often end up electing a candidate most of them don’t want?

    Why when a football team is trailing its opponent, is it better to attempt a failed touchdown than go for the sure thing – a field goal?

    Why the American and National Leagues mirror the global economy?

    Why we all worry most about the least harmful diseases or the wrong injury risks?

During his tenure at Time, Kluger has written hundreds of stories, including 23 cover stories. Among them are 2003’s coverage of the loss of the shuttle Columbia, 2005’s cover on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and a 2001 cover on global warming, which won the Overseas Press Club Award for best environmental reporting of the year.

Before coming to Time, Kluger worked for Discover magazine, where he was a senior editor and humor columnist. Prior to that, he was health editor at Family Circle magazine, a story editor at The New York Times Business World Magazine, and associate editor at Science Digest.

His feature articles and columns have appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Omni, McCall’s, New York magazine, The New York Post, Newsday, and, of course, Time.

He is the co-author, along with astronaut Jim Lovell, of the best-seller Apollo 13, the book that served as the basis of the 1995 movie. He is the sole author of 1998's Moonhunters, which told the story of the unmanned exploration of the solar system.

He is also the author of Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine, and the novel, Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats.

He is currently writing a book about siblings - the science, the psychology, the emotional mysteries.

His young adult novel, Freedom Stone, will be published in late 2010.

Kluger has worked as an adjunct instructor in the graduate journalism program at New York University; is a licensed – though non-practicing – attorney; and is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

He lives in New York City with his wife and daughters.

Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple

    The Simplexity of Investing and the Stock Market

   

Skills vs. Pay and Product vs. Profit in Business

   

The 10 vs. 90 Percent Rule in Medicine

   

The Simplexity of Politics, Sports, the Arts, and Science

   

Expert Speaker on the Topics of Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology

Jeffrey Kluger Videos

  • Jeffrey Kluger: Are you a narcissist? Run for President.
  • University of Tennessee | 2013 Hill Lecture Series | Jeffrey Kluger ...
  • How Does Birth Order Affect Your Child from Jeffrey Kluger - YouTube

Jeffrey Kluger Books

FAQs on booking Jeffrey Kluger

  • How do I book Jeffrey Kluger to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Jeffrey Kluger for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Jeffrey Kluger, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Jeffrey Kluger or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Jeffrey Kluger

    Speaking fees for Jeffrey Kluger, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Jeffrey Kluger are $20,000 - $30,000 for live events and available upon request for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Jeffrey Kluger, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Jeffrey Kluger speak about?

  • Where does Jeffrey Kluger travel from?

    Jeffrey Kluger generally travels from New York, NY, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Jeffrey Kluger’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Jeffrey Kluger for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jeffrey Kluger for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Jeffrey Kluger or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Jeffrey Kluger is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Jeffrey Kluger for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jeffrey Kluger generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Leslie Dodson, Peter Diamandis, Thomas Pogge, Julian Baggini and Ray Kurzweil. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jeffrey Kluger for an upcoming live or virtual event.

Jeffrey Kluger Speaker Videos

  • Jeffrey Kluger: Are you a narcissist? Run for President.
    University of Tennessee | 2013 Hill Lecture Series | Jeffrey Kluger ...
  • How Does Birth Order Affect Your Child from Jeffrey Kluger - YouTube
    TEDxAsheville - Jeff Kluger - The hidden power of siblings - YouTube

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This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

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