Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a NY Times bestselling author, behavioral researcher and the creator of People School who has spent two decades sharing evidence-based people skills with the world.

As founder of Science of People, a behavior research lab, she has turned the hidden dynamics of human interaction into practical, learnable frameworks. She teaches her material at Harvard, her books have been translated into 18 languages, and her viral videos reached over 300 million people last year.

Vanessa works with the world's most ambitious organizations to sharpen the skill that drives everything else — communication. Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Comcast, and she has spoken at MIT, Stanford, and SXSW. Her work has been featured on TIME, CNN, BBC, CBS Mornings, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, USA Today, and The Today Show.

Thousands have graduated from People School, her advanced program, and 5M+ students have taken her courses. Her recent MasterClass, People Intelligence, became one of the top ten most watched classes of the year.

In a world that's automating everything, Vanessa teaches the one skill that can't be replaced — how to connect as humans.