Amy Cuddy

Dr. Amy Cuddy—Princeton Ph.D., former Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management faculty member, and recipient of the Harvard Excellence in Teaching Award for her course on power and influence—is an award-winning social psychologist, New York Times bestselling author of Presence (500,000+ copies sold, translated into 35+ languages), and contributing writer for The Athletic, whose TED Talk "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are" has drawn more than 75 million views to rank as the third most-viewed of all time, with a highly anticipated 2026 TED Talk on how to interrupt cultures of bullying set for release; co-architect of the field-defining Stereotype Content Model (for which she received the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology) and author of the forthcoming Bullied, she has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Thinkers50 honoree, a member of the BBC 100 Women list, a TIME Game Changer, one of Business Insider's 50 Women Who Are Changing the World, and one of Inc.'s Top 50 Leadership Innovators Changing How We Lead, and today ranks among the world's most sought-after keynote speakers, translating cutting-edge research on power, trust, and performance into practical tools that help senior executives, emerging leaders, and high-performing teams build grounded confidence, strengthen culture, and rise to high-stakes moments with clarity and presence.