Keynote Speeches

The Keys to Innovation: Priming your brain

to percolate brilliant ideas

The route from problem to solution is a swirling path with Aha! moments lighting the way. In this keynote speech, we examine the neural processes that percolate insights into consciousness and how to prime your brain so you can crank them out!

Innovation, Incorporation, and Integrity

Corporations don’t exist to make money. They exist to provide the foundation for you to pursue greatness … at their best. At their worst, corporations stifle innovation and confuse their employees’ concepts of responsibility but still make money. In this keynote, Ransom presents a perspective-altering view of your role in the company you work for: why you should stay, when you should walk, and how you can run. The first step is understanding that you affect the company you work for just as you affect the company you keep.

Your Pursuit of Greatness

For people making big decisions about careers, life, and everything: a perspective-altering view of how it all works. By looking at life, luck, behavior, and money in the light of different time scales, the Big Picture comes clear: How you got here and how to pursue your own personal greatness. Ransom’s analysis of the nature of understanding and challenge proves that you have everything you need to achieve your greatest potential.

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Neuroscience and the Great Questions

Neuroscience has built a case for addressing many of the Great Questions—nature or nurture, creative or analytic, talent or skill—as interdependent feedback loops: nature and nurture, alone and together, intellect and emotion. In this presentation, physicist and science writer Ransom Stephens begins with a description of how your brain works in three easy steps, advances to the emergence of consciousness in people and animals, and then, with the audience’s help, approaches those Great Questions all the way to free will and determinism, science and art, and life and death.

For writers:

Get Inside Your Reader’s Brain:

The neuroscience of how to make readers laugh and cry

Neuroscience is like looking under the hood to see how It works. When you know how readers process your writing you can figure out what grabs readers, what bores them, and why.

“Ransom is that teacher, the one

who makes you wish you never left

school.”

- Andy Martwick, Intel

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