Dr. Barbara Oakley, Engineer, Professor, Author

“Really great leaders oftentimes will surround themselves with people who have contrary opinions who have differing sorts of thoughts.”

Dr. Barbara Oakley is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Barbara was a captain in the U.S. Army, a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers, a radio operator in the South Pole, and the author of 8 books. She is also the creator and instructor of Learning to Learn, the most popular Massive Open Online Course ever with over one million enrolled students.

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