Susan Cain

Susan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which spent over seven years on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 40 languages. Her TED Talk has been viewed over 30 million times and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorites. Susan speaks on unlocking human potential, introversion and leadership, and creating environments where all personality types can thrive and contribute their best work.

Sparking a Global Conversation
Susan’s work fundamentally changed how organizations think about personality, leadership, and creativity. Quiet demonstrated that introverts bring essential strengths to teams and organizations that are routinely overlooked in extrovert-biased cultures. LinkedIn named her the sixth Top Influencer in the world. She partnered with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink to launch the Next Big Idea Book Club, donating all proceeds to children’s literacy programs.

A Voice for the Quiet Revolution
Susan is also the author of Bittersweet and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. She founded Quiet Revolution, a mission-based company dedicated to empowering introverts in schools, workplaces, and communities worldwide. Her keynotes deliver research-backed strategies for unlocking potential across personality types, building inclusive cultures, and creating the kind of environments where both introverts and extroverts do their most creative, impactful work.

Quiet Leadership: How to Harness the Strengths of Introverts to Change How We Work, Lead, Learn, and Innovate

Did you know introverted leaders often deliver better results than extroverted leaders do? That the most spectacularly creative people tend to be introverts? That the most innovative thinking happens alone and not in teams? One of the central challenges of any business is to bring out the best in its employees. Yet when it comes to introverts—who make up a third to a half of the workforce—our leadership strategy mainly consists of asking them to act like extroverts. This is a serious waste of talent and energy.

In her enlightening, relatable, and practical talks, Susan Cain shows us that introverts think and work in ways that are crucial to the survival of today’s organizations. How can you structure your organization so that the best ideas—rather than those of the most vocal and assertive people—dominate? How do introverts and extroverts solve problems and evaluate risk differently? What do introverts know about creativity that the rest of us should learn? Drawing on her original research and the latest in neuroscience and psychology, Susan will radically change your view of the best ways to develop leaders, manage teams, make smart hires, and stimulate innovation.

Sample Sub-Topics

• How to choose and cultivate leaders wisely
• How best to balance the need for solitude and teamwork to stimulate innovation
• How and when to stretch outside our comfort zones
• How to harness the best of everyone’s ideas
• How to overcome any fear
• Quiet Kids: How Our Education System Can Teach Introverted Students