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Susan David
South African psychologist (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Susan A. David (born 13 September 1970) is a South African psychologist, speaker and author.
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Early life
David was born in 1970, in Gauteng, South Africa. She attended Waverly Girls High School from 1984 to 1988.[1] David received her BA in Applied Psychology & English (1992), Honors in Applied Psychology (1995), and her MA in Psychology (2000) from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. David got a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Melbourne.[2] David then conducted post-doctoral research in emotions at Yale University.[3]
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Career
David founded the management consulting firm Evidence Based Psychology in 1999 and serves as its CEO.[4] David co-founded the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching in 2009[5] and served as co-director.[6] David edited the 2013 books Beyond Goals[7] and The Oxford Handbook of Happiness.[8] David wrote the self-help book Emotional Agility, which was published with Penguin Random House in 2016.[9] Emotional Agility talks about the concept of productively managing and accepting emotions.[10] Emotional Agility reached #1 on The Wall Street Journal bestseller list.[11] The concept of emotional agility was named as the best business management idea of the year by Harvard Business Review.[12] David gave a TED talk in January 2018 called "The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage". By the end of 2018 it had 6 million views on the TED website.[13]
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Personal life
David lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.[14]
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