Yale Faculty Speakers

Marc Brackett

MARC BRACKETT is the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. His research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in decision making, relationships, mental health, and both academic and workplace performance, as well as the impact of emotional intelligence training. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Joseph E. Zins Award for his research on social and emotional learning. He is the co-creator of RULER, an evidence-based approach to teaching social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than 1000 public and private schools reaching nearly 1 million students as well as their educators and families. Marc serves on a wide-range of advisory boards, including CASEL and Born This Way Foundation. For the last three years, he has collaborated with Facebook on three projects: tools to help adolescents manage online bullying; the Bullying Prevention Hub, which provides resources for children, families, and educators; and inspirED, a resource center to help high schools build more positive learning environments. He regularly consults with school systems and corporations around the world and his research has been featured in the New York Times and Time magazine; he also is a frequent guest on National Public Radio. He also holds a 5th degree black belt in Hapkido, a Korean martial art.

Heidi Brooks

HEIDI BROOKS specializes in leadership and community development for individuals, organizations, and larger systems. Her experience includes executive coaching and leadership development in Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, family firms, and nonprofit organizations. Since 2003, Heidi has been on the faculty at the Yale School of Management, where she is the faculty director of the Global Pre-MBA Leadership Program. In recent years, she spearheaded the original leadership development curriculum design and directed both the leadership development program and the management school’s mentoring program. Heidi has a PhD in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Daylian Cain

DAYLIAN CAIN’s research focuses on judgment, decision making, and behavioral business ethics. In other words, he studies the reasons why smart people do dumb things. Daylian is a leading expert on conflicts of interest, and how to turn altruism on and off. Daylian’s research has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Businessweek, USA Today, the New York Times, and other top media outlets, such as NPR. He has won national teaching awards and has also appeared as a commentator on National Geographic’s popular TV show Brain Games.

George Newman

GEORGE E. NEWMAN, faculty director, is an assistant professor of management and marketing. He is interested in the application of basic cognitive processes such as categorization and causal reasoning to consumer behavior. Currently, his research examines the psychological processes underlying our concepts of authenticity in the domains of art, celebrity possessions, and consumer products. He is also interested in pro-social behaviors, and how consumers may balance their desires to do good with desires to maximize the efficiency of their donations or purchases. Newman has published work on essentialism, perceptions of animacy, children’s conceptual development, causal reasoning, and identity continuity.

David Tate

DAVID C. TATE is a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at Yale University. His areas of practice in organizational consulting include coaching and leadership development, conflict resolution, team building, succession planning, and promoting healthy organization development. In his clinical practice, he sees individuals, families, and groups around issues concerning health, relationships, and dealing effectively with life transitions. David is a co-author of Sink or Swim: How Lessons From the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business. He earned a certificate in family business advising from the Family Firm Institute, and serves as the facilitator for the National Association of Corporate Directors Connecticut Chapter’s Family Business Roundtable. He also is the co-founder of the Connecticut Consulting Psychology Group. David received a BS at Cornell University and a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia. He completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Yale University before joining the faculty.