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Dan Ariely
Best-Selling Author of Predictably Irrational & Misbelief | James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics, Duke University | Co-Founder, Irrational Capital
Speaker Dan Ariely is one of the world's leading behavioral economists, blending decades of Duke research with bestsellers like Predictably Irrational and Misbelief. He helps senior leaders understand why people make irrational choices about money, work, and trust, then turns that insight into behavioral strategies for better decisions. Audiences leave with practical tools to motivate teams, strengthen cultures, and influence behavior at scale.
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Dan Ariely biography
Speaker Dan Ariely is one of the world’s most influential behavioral economists and the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His research investigates the predictable ways human beings act irrationally, from financial choices to honesty, motivation, and trust. By translating complex science into clear, actionable insight, Ariely has built a global reputation for helping organizations understand the hidden forces that drive real human decisions.
Ariely’s path into behavioral economics began with a personal experience. At 18, while serving in the Israeli army, he suffered severe burns over 70% of his body in a magnesium flare explosion. During a three-year recovery, he observed how patients and clinicians made consistently irrational choices about pain, treatment, and risk. That observation became the seed of a career dedicated to studying why people so often deviate from rational models, and what we can do about it.
Bestselling Books and Lasting Influence
He is the author of several international bestsellers, including Predictably Irrational, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Payoff, Dollars and Sense, Irrationally Yours, and Misbelief, which examines how rational people come to embrace conspiracy theories and false narratives. His ideas have been translated into more than thirty languages and inspired the NBC drama The Irrational, loosely based on his life and research.
Beyond academia, Ariely co-founded Irrational Capital, an investment research firm that quantifies the link between company culture and equity performance through its proprietary Human Capital Factor. He has presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, and major industry summits, and his work routinely shapes how senior leaders think about workforce engagement, ethical decision-making, and consumer behavior.
As a speaker, Dan Ariely turns rigorous experiments into memorable stories that change how audiences think about money, motivation, and misbelief. He is among the most sought-after psychology speakers for senior executives, finance leaders, and innovation teams looking to apply behavioral science to real-world challenges.
Dan Ariely Speaking Videos
Dan Ariely - What makes us feel good about our work?
Dan Ariely - How to change your behavior for the better
Dan Ariely Keynote Topics
Drawing on years of lab research, company partnerships, and global market studies, Dan Ariely shows why human capital remains the most underestimated asset on the balance sheet. He unpacks what truly motivates employees beyond compensation, how culture quietly compounds into performance, and where leaders are leaving engagement on the table. Audiences leave with measurable ways to lift workplace satisfaction, retention, and output.
Misinformation is not simply a failure of facts but a psychological response to uncertainty, identity, and unmet emotional needs. In this session, Dan walks audiences through what he calls the funnel of misbelief, the stages by which thoughtful people drift toward conspiracy theories and false narratives. He shares early-stage interventions leaders, communicators, and policymakers can use to slow that spread.
Even financially literate people make consistently poor choices about money. Dan exposes the cognitive shortcuts, payment friction effects, and emotional triggers that distort spending and saving behavior. He gives audiences a clear set of behavioral nudges and design principles to help themselves, their customers, and their teams make smarter financial decisions.
Most strategic plans assume people will act rationally. They almost never do. Dan brings audiences inside the predictable patterns of irrationality that shape behavior at work, in markets, and in everyday life. The result is a practical playbook for designing products, policies, and communications that work with human nature rather than against it.
Speaker topics
FAQs on Booking Dan Ariely
Why Dan Ariely?
Speaker Dan Ariely combines the rigor of a Duke University behavioral economist with the storytelling clarity of a global bestselling author. He has shaped how leaders at Fortune 500 companies, central banks, and policy bodies think about motivation, honesty, money, and misbelief, turning more than two decades of original research into practical decisions audiences can apply on Monday morning. His talks consistently top conference ratings because he combines first-class science with humor and a refusal to lecture. Book Dan Ariely through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring one of the world's most influential voices in behavioral science to your next event.
What is Dan Ariely best known for?
Dan Ariely is best known for his pioneering work in behavioral economics and his bestselling book Predictably Irrational, which redefined how people think about decision-making. He is also widely cited for The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, his research on cheating and ethics, and Misbelief, his deep dive into how rational people fall into conspiracy thinking. As the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, his lab at Duke has produced some of the most-cited research in the field on motivation, money, trust, and self-control.
What topics does Dan Ariely speak about?
Dan Ariely's most requested keynotes cover workplace motivation and human capital, the psychology of money and personal finance, misbelief and misinformation, dishonesty and trust, and the use of behavioral economics to design better decisions. He tailors each talk to the audience, drawing on his own research and on real cases from companies, governments, and healthcare systems. Sessions are designed to leave audiences with both new mental models and immediately usable tools.
How does Dan Ariely tailor a keynote for corporate audiences?
Before each event, Dan Ariely studies the host organization's challenges, then anchors his examples in the team's industry, whether financial services, healthcare, tech, retail, or government. He blends original experiments from his Duke lab with case studies from Irrational Capital, where he quantifies how company culture moves equity performance. The result is a keynote that feels custom-built rather than off-the-shelf. To bring this caliber of behavioral insight to your stage, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to book Dan Ariely.
How to book Dan Ariely as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Dan Ariely speaking fee?
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