Baba Shiv: Optimize Your Decision-Making

Join us in the Arena with Baba Shiv. He breaks down how to leverage our physiology in order to make better decisions. Embedded in this episode are tiny tweaks we can all make to our daily lives that can profoundly upgrade our well-being.

Baba Shiv has done extensive work on the emotional brain, documenting its powerful role in shaping decisions and experiences. His work includes the application of neuroeconomics to the study and practice of innovation and entrepreneurial leadership in companies, from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 companies, as well as countries including India, Malaysia, and New Zealand. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CNN, Economic Times, Fox Business, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Radio Lab. Baba Shiv teaches courses at Stanford GSB and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, including “The Frisky Science of the Mind,” “Scaling Design Thinking Globally,” and “Crafting Interventions for Massive Change.”