Maria Konnikova’s Decision Making Keynote Upgrades Microsoft Growth Summit

 
 

Maria Konnikova recently collaborated with Microsoft during the company’s Annual Growth Summit to facilitate two engaging virtual speaking sessions about decision making strategies and best practices for an audience of more than 5,000 engineers.

Microsoft chose Maria‘s popular keynote - The Poker Game of Life. In this session, Maria uses poker to enhance thinking and decision making. She combines her personal experience as a champion poker player with her original research into the psychology of human decision making to explore how we can all learn to make better decisions in every aspect of our lives.

Maria speaks about a range of subjects involving decision making, creativity, learning, and the psychology behind everyday life. She has given dozens of keynotes around the world; been a featured speaker at conferences like the World Economic Forum at Davos, TEDNYC and TEDx, and SXSW; led corporate retreats and annual meetings.

She is the author, most recently, of The Biggest Bluff, a New York Times bestseller and one of the Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2020. Her previous books are bestsellers The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Maria is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker whose writing has won numerous awards, While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player. She is an award-winning podcast host, keynote speaker and more.

If your company would like to work with Maria on similar speaking engagements, visit Maria’s web page and contact us to schedule a chat.

Some favorite speech topics include:

  • Persuasion, trust, confidence: what your business can learn from con artists

  • Better decision making through poker

  • Self-control and emotion management: lessons from psychology and poker

  • How the mind learns: lessons from psychology and poker

  • Mastering the art of probabilistic thinking

  • The power of storytelling

  • The nature of trust

  • How to think like Sherlock Holmes: the scientific method of the mind

  • Mindfulness for daily decision making

  • How to enhance your creativity in any environment

  • How we can learn to become more resilient

  • How to be bored: boredom as an antidote in the age of distraction

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