How to Change with Katy Milkman

The Learner Lab

We can all change. But we usually don't. The good news: we can fix this
Katy Milkman is one of the world's leading experts on change and human behavior. She shares specific tools to overcome:
– Laziness
– Forgetfulness
– Procrastination
– Getting Started
– Impulsivity
– Conformity
– Confidence
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Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, student achievement, vaccination and discrimination. To that end, she co-founded and co-directs the Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2021 Katy was named one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers and the world’s top strategy thinker by Thinkers50. The New York Times also named her bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be one of the eight best books for healthy living in 2021.