Dr. Stephen Wendel is a behavioral scientist who studies financial behavior and how digital products can help individuals manage their money more effectively.  He serves as Head of Behavioral Science at Morningstar, where he leads a team of behavioral scientists and practitioners to conduct original research on saving and investment behavior.  Stephen has authored three books on applied behavioral science, Designing for Behavior Change, Improving Employee Benefits, and Spiritual Design, and founded the non-profit Action Design Network, educating the public on how to apply behavioral research to product development with monthly events in twelve cities. He has two wonderful kids, who don't care about behavioral science at all.

Dr. Stef Johnson is an associate professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics. She holds the Andrea and Michael Leeds Research Fellowship, is the Director of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, and is a 2020 RIO Fellow. She is a fellow in the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the American Psychological Society (APS). She has published 60 journal articles and book chapters in outlets Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. Her book just poublished with Harper Collins is called Inclusify: Harnessing the Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams, where Stefanie shares the surprising ways the leaders undermine inclusion and provides actionable ways that leaders can pivot to build more inclusive teams.

Julia is Partner at Boston Consulting Group and cofounder and leader of BeSmart, BCG's behavioral economics and insights initiative. In this role, she brings her passion and experience designing complex system transformation through nuanced behavioral change to clients in the public and private sectors. Julia has advised and implemented transformational strategy initiatives across a range of social impact and public sector organizations, including economic development and planning, finance, labor, education, and social welfare. She works with private sector clients to integrate choice architecture and customer insights to improve the productivity, performance, and customer experience of organizations in sectors including airlines and travel and tourism, energy, IT, and telecommunications. Before joining the firm, Julia worked as private secretary to the deputy prime minister and minister of finance in New Zealand. She also led a major study to increase private capital for public services as a member of the UK cabinet office's social investment and finance team.

Maria Konnikova is psychologist and author of two New York Times best selling books,  Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.  Maria's writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Maria also hosts the podcast The Grift from Panoply Media, a show that explores con artists and the lives they ruin, and is currently a visiting fellow at NYU's School of Journalism. Her new book, The Biggest Bluff, will be out from Penguin Press on June 23, 2020. While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings—and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player. What? You may be wondering? … How do the skills learned at the poker table translate to the skills required to live a better, more thoughtful and, ultimately, successful life? The Biggest Bluff isn't about how to play poker. It's about how to play the world.

Torben Emmerling is the Founder and Managing Partner of the leading Swiss Behavioural Science consultancy Affective Advisory. He is the inventor of the D.R.I.V.E.® framework for behavioural insights in strategy, a seasoned lecturer in Behavioural Science and Applied Consumer Psychology and an accomplished trainer and keynote speaker. Torben has over 10 years of experience in business strategy, organizational development and customer relationship management. Over the past 3 years he has been working with leading private and public organizations on implementing behavioural science insights in strategy, ethics risk and compliance, marketing, communication and public policy around the world. Torben holds an Executive Master (MSc) in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics, and Master (Mlitt) in International Business from the University of St Andrews. He lives and works in Zurich and enjoys traveling the world for both work and pleasure.

Jason leads PwC Australia's behavioral economics practice. He specializes in economics, evolution, and behavioral science. Previously, he was data science lead with Australia's corporate, markets, and financial services regulator, and has also worked as a lawyer and an economic policy adviser with the Australian Treasury. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia.

This is a reverse style interview with the podcast's host, Nick Hobson. In this episode, former guest from Season 1, Rob Haisfield sits down with Nick to discuss the state of the field of behavioral insights, from the personal vantage point of leaving academia and entering into practice. There's also a winding conversation talking about Nick's main line of work: the psychology of ritual and its impact on customer experience and brand engagement.

Mostly though, this is a test that puts Nick in the hot seat: He can dish it, but can he take the tough interview questions? We'll see.

Caroline Roux holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology of Resource Scarcity. Her primary area of research explores how reminders of resource scarcity affect consumers' cognitions, judgment, and behavior. More broadly, her research interests focus on better understanding how pro-social values and moral considerations influence consumers' decision making.

Caroline was awarded research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture. She also was the recipient of the 2017 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in the Strategic Research Cluster "The Person and Society," and of the 2019 Dean's Award for Distinguished Scholarship – Emerging Scholar. Caroline's research has been published in top marketing journals, such as the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, among others. She has a PhD in marketing from NorthWestern University.

Dr. Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California, where she teaches classes on behavior change. Given her research over the past 30 years, she is widely considered the world scientific expert on habit formation and change. She has published over 100 articles, and her research has been supported by Proctor & Gamble, National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute. Wendy is a popular speaker at scientific conferences and with a broad range of professional groups. In 2018, she gave the inaugural address in Paris for the Sorbonne-INSEAD Distinguished Chair in Behavioral Science. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, on radio shows like Freakonomics, and in podcasts like the People's Pharmacy. Most recently, Wendy is the author of her new book: Good Habits, Bad Habits … a rare book, as written an academic and jam packed with solid science but accessible to just about anyone interested in why they do the things they do.

Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, and has co-founded a behavioural science practice within the agency. He works talented psychology graduates who look for 'unseen opportunities' in consumer behaviour - these are the very small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make - for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Before this, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years. Before his life-changing (for many of his fans) career at Ogilvy, Rory has been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He is also an author. having written: 'The Wiki Man', and the newly published 'Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense.'