CANversation with Marc Brackett: 17 February

13:00 (London time)

Hosted by Kam Chohan

The first session of 2025 will feature a special guest, Marc Brackett, Ph.D., from Yale University, who will also serve as a keynote speaker at our 2025 Leadership Conference.

Dr. Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, and the author of the best-selling book Permission to Feel, which has been translated into 25 languages.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the leading voices in emotional intelligence and discover how it can make a lasting impact on both students and educators.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, and author of the best-selling book, Permission to Feel, which has been translated into 25 languages.

As an award-winning researcher for 25 years, Marc has raised over $100 million in grant funding and published 175 scholarly articles on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, physical and mental health, and workplace performance.

Marc is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) that has been adopted by over 5,000 schools across the globe, improving the lives of millions of children and adults. RULER infuses the principles and skills of emotional intelligence into school systems, enhancing how administrators lead, educators teach, students learn, and families parent. It has been proven to boost academic performance, decrease school problems like bullying, enrich classroom climates, reduce teacher stress and burnout, and enhance teacher instructional practices.