Alison Wood Brooks

Alison Wood Brooks is a behavioral scientist and a professor at Harvard Business School, where she teaches MBA courses on how to talk better in business and life. She is the author of Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves and the founder of TALK Studios, which works with leaders, teams, schools, and families.

Her research sits at the intersection of psychology and everyday and her core belief is that conversation is a skill anyone can learn.

Ask her about the four habits that separate a good conversation from a forgettable one.