8am, Tuesday 13 October.


Perched high above midtown Manhattan overlooking Central Park, 130 guests came to celebrate the launch of Your Brain at Work. Guests included the media, senior executives from around the city, consultants, coaches, and some new and old friends.


We heard from Joe Versace, the host of the event. Then Art Kleiner (right), the editor of strategy+business magazine, introduced me and the book. (strategy+business is where a new paper on the SCARF model has just been published.) It was wonderful to see Brad Choyt, director of the BlueSchool along too (left).

After I presented the story of how the book came about and the book's big ideas, people began to ask some great questions. Like 'what is a great idea?', 'How exactly does it help to understand the brain', and 'Why is positive change so difficult'. Am going to post about a few of these questions on my new blog on Psychologytoday.com. (Speaking of which, my excerpt from the book about the Neuroscience of Mindfulness has been very popular).

It was wonderful to have my family with me, and one guest asked my daughter Trinity to also sign his book, which she was very pleased with indeed.


If you weren't there, you can also download and listen to a recorded telecall from one of the virtual launches last week held worldwide.

You can also join me at one of the new 'Your Brain at Work' workshops coming up in NYC (November 7), Singapore (November 21), Sydney, Australia (December 1) and Mumbai in India (December 15).

There's a complete list of talks I am giving around the world here, including events coming up in San Francisco and NYC.

There's more photos below. My favorite is on the right, which looks like my book is now the third child.