Emotional intelligence, or the ability to understand and manage our own emotions, and relate to and understand others, is a key skill for success in life and in the workplace. And frankly, in an age of artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence may be our great differentiator: our self-awareness, empathy, social skills, defining features of what it means to be human. 

We’ve covered multiple intelligences on the podcast, but we’ve never dived deep into EQ- and today we have the perfect expert guest to take us there.

Dr. Marc Brackett-

As the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Marc Brackett is professor in the Child Study Center at Yale, and author of the best-selling book, Permission to Feel . An award-winning researcher for 25 years, Marc has raised over $100 million in grant funding, published 175 scholarly articles on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, physical and mental health, and workplace performance, and is featured regularly in popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America, and The Today Show.