Dr. Dan Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization—based on his concept of Mindsight—offering online learning and in-person workshops that explore how the mind, embodied brain, and relationships shape our development and provide applications for enhancing mental health and well-being.
Dr. Siegel’s unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts accessible and exciting has led to numerous speaking engagements addressing diverse local, national and international groups including mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy-makers, mediators, judges, and clergy. He has lectured for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and London’s Royal Society of Arts. He was the first scientist to present in Myanmar on the topics of child development, parenting, education, and mental health.
As an internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist and author, Dr. Siegel’s books have been translated into over forty languages and have sold over 2 million copies worldwide. He has published extensively for the professional audience, has authored numerous articles, chapters, and internationally acclaimed textbooks, and serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, which contains over 75 textbooks and is on of the bestselling professional series in the field of mental health.