Johann Hari

The staggering scientific breakthrough in weight loss drugs is transforming our bodies, our healthcare systems, and our economies. The New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari, whose work has been lauded from Oprah Winfrey to the Wall Street Journal to the British Medical Association, will explain what these drugs will mean for us all. For his acclaimed book ‘Magic Pill,’ Hari took the drugs and travelled from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo as he brings us into the heart of this pharmaceutical revolution, uncovering fascinating benefits and twelve significant risks. This is what you need to know about the weight-loss drugs set to take over the world.

Do you pride yourself on your ability to multitask? Do you encourage your employees to do so? In this revealing presentation, award-winning author Johann Hari will break down the myth of multitasking. While many see multitasking as a solution to completing multiple projects, Hari explains the surprising insights he learned through multiple interviews with experts. A charismatic storyteller, he makes the case that juggling numerous tasks at the same time, and dividing attention between them, is in fact less productive than focusing on one task at a time. Attendees will learn the benefits of choosing to focus on a single task over multitasking, with real-world solutions that can be applied immediately.

In this deeply personal presentation, award-winning journalist and author Johann Hari reveals one of his earliest memories – trying to wake a relative and not being able to. At the time he was too young to understand why, but as he got older, he realized there was addiction in his family. He’ll share his quest to understand what causes addiction and what we can do to reduce it. Hari will discuss how, drawing upon his training in the social sciences at Cambridge University, he set out on an epic journey across the world to investigate this question. Hari’s New York Times bestseller on the topic “Chasing the Scream” has been adapted into the Oscar-nominated film “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” as well as the 8-part documentary series “The Fix,” narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. The companion TED Talk has been viewed nearly 100 million times across channels. By sharing his core insight – the opposite of addiction is connection – audiences will learn what causes addiction, why we are in an unprecedented addiction crisis today and, most importantly, how we can find our way back to hope.

Now at epidemic levels, rates of anxiety and depression have been rising in the Western world for more than 40 years, negatively impacting employees and employers. In this timely presentation, award-winning author Johann Hari draws on his bestseller “Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed or Anxious – And How To Find Hope” and its companion TED Talk, which has received more than 20 million views, to discuss what he learned from interviewing more than 200 of the world’s leading experts on anxiety and depression. Hari explains there is scientific evidence for nine factors that can cause depression and anxiety, some of which are biologically based while others come from the way we live today. Audiences will gain a new set of solutions for reducing anxiety and depression in the workplace.

We are living in a huge attention crisis. The average office worker now focuses on any one task for less than three minutes, and for every one child identified with serious attention deficits in 1986, there are now 100. In this eye-opening session, award-winning author Johann Hari draws on his book “Stolen Focus: Why You can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again” to discuss a journey embarked on from Moscow to Miami to Melbourne to discover why he could feel his own attention getting worse. Through more than 200 interviews with leading experts on attention and a deep dive into their research, he learned there is scientific evidence for 12 factors that can make your attention better or worse. Hari will outline the factors which range from the obvious, such as changes in technology, to others that are not discussed as widely, such as the food we eat, to the way our offices work, and the way our children’s schools work. Audiences will learn the insights Hari discovered to solve the attention crisis and the practical steps we can all take to get it back.