Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You - Dr. Ethan Kross with Dr. Jamil Zaki

Register here

Kross will come to GPS with a fresh look at how we can regulate and better understand our feelings so they don’t take over our lives. Participants will learn simple strategies to master emotional decision-making for a happier, healthier and more productive life. Kross will also dispel the myths and provide a framework for how we can best navigate emotions without them controlling us—and help others do the same.

Anxiety, anger and disappointment are difficult emotions, but Kross asserts that rather than being good or bad, emotions can be our superpower providing information to help us navigate our lives better. Based on groundbreaking research, he will explain the mechanics of emotions, why we have them and how we can manage them effectively. Kross will present an array of simple tools we can use for greater happiness and success.

Kross is the two-time national bestselling author of “Shift” and “Chatter” and is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Department of Psychology and its School of Business. He is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New England Journal of Medicine and Science.