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Rahaf Harfoush

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Anthropologist, Strategist & Speaker, Author of "The Decoded Company" & "Hustle and Float"

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Anthropologist, Strategist & Speaker, Author of "The Decoded Company" & "Hustle and Float"

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Rahaf Harfoush Biography

Rahaf Harfoush is a strategist, digital anthropologist, and New York Times Best-Selling author who focuses on the intersections between emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture. She is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture and is a member of Franceā€™s National Digital Council. Additionally, Harfoush was recently named to the United Nations High-Level Advisory on Artificial Intelligence and served on President Macronā€™s commission on AIā€™s impact on democracy. In 2021 she joined The Oxford Internet Institute as a Visiting Policy Fellow. Formerly, Harfoush was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where she helped identify disruptive startups that were improving the state of the world.

In 2019, the prestigious ā€œLes Napoleonsā€ named Harfoush as one of the most innovative women in France. She was listed as one of the top future thinkers to shape the world by the Hay Literary Festival in 2017. Harfoush was named a Young Global Changer by the G20 Global Think Tank Summit. Harfoush has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Shaper, and by the Womenā€™s Forum for the Economy and Society as a Rising Talent for her thought leadership in the fields of digital culture and technology. In 2014, Harfoush was also named as a ā€œCanadian Arab to Watch,ā€ by the Canadian Arab Institute. She is a member of the German Marshall Network of Transatlantic Leaders.

In her first book, ā€œYes We Did: An Insiderā€™s Look at How Social Media Built the Obama Brand,ā€ chronicled her experiences as a member of Barack Obamaā€™s digital media team during the 2008 Presidential elections and explored how social networking revolutionized political campaign strategy. Later on, Harfoush co-authored ā€œThe Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers,ā€ which was a best-seller and won a 2015 Gold Axiom Award for Best Business Technology Book. "The Decoded Company" explores how big data is providing an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to dramatically improve their decision-making, increase their performance, and, most importantly, intentionally create happy and vibrant work cultures. Building on work cultures, her third book, entitled ā€œHustle & Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work." She has been featured by Bloomberg, The CBC, CTV, and Forbes for her work on workplace culture.

Harfoushā€™s writing has been featured in HBR, Wired, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Monocle, The Financial Times, Techonomy, The Next Web and many more. She is a frequent commentator on France24 and the CBC. She has been speaking about Digital Culture and Technology since 2006.

Rahaf Harfoush Speaking Topics

  • An engaging and passionate speaker, Rahaf has shared her unique perspective on technology and innovation since 2006 with audiences worldwide. As an expert story-teller, she excels at making trends and research easy to understand and delivers presentations that are entertaining, informative and funny. She focuses on how emerging technologies are impacting business, education and government. She also talks about innovation within specific industries and the impact of disruptive business models on organizations, institutions and individuals.

Rahaf Harfoush Videos

  • Rahaf Harfoush Explains Why Productivity Kills Creativity - YouTube
    Alexa Morales, Director of Developer Content for Oracle, interviews digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush at Oracle OpenWorld Europe inĀ ...
  • [Strategy@Work] Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Anthropologist - YouTube
    Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Anthropologist, Executive Director, Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture.
  • #EmTechFR Rahaf Harfoush - Forecasting the Next Generation of ...
    Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Foresight Strategist & Founder of Red Thread intervenes at EmTech France 2017. More information atĀ ...

Rahaf Harfoush Books

  • Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work
    Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

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