Alison Wood Brooks's videos and podcasts
This week
BIG NEWS: We’re announcing R.E.A.L.® Discussion as TALK Studios’ K–12 partner and the home for its w...
Earlier this month
Networking tip: Stop trying to impress people. 🧠 Our instinct is to sell ourselves. To perform. To ...
hot take: being good at conversation has a lot less to do with being naturally charismatic than you ...
Every organization runs on conversation. Its how leaders set direction, how colleagues give and rec...
Meet the experts! 💥💥💥 It’s a behavioral scientist’s dream to watch humans do their thing, especia...
Gus Cooney is one of the most creative, rigorous, and delightful humans doing research today. He was...
You might think sorry is the whole apology. Its really just step one. A good apology has four parts...
Starting a new series: books on conversation I keep coming back to. There are so many I love, so con...
Nobody loves small talk… But here's the thing about being stuck in it: conversation is co-constru...
My grandma used to talk to everyone. The mail carrier, the checkout clerk, the person waiting next t...
September 2026
YOU GUYS! I’ve been holding onto a secret. I’ve spent my career trying to conduct rigorous behavior...
I’ve been keeping a pretty big secret. And the first clue is officially out in the world. 👀 Yep, t...
Confession: I once asked a friend, "How was your trip?" and was already three sentences into my own ...
Starting a new series: books on conversation I keep coming back to. There are so many I love, so con...
Not every silence is the same, and treating them all like a failure is where most of us go wrong. ...
Listening is not the same as being quiet. I say this everywhere I go, and it landed differently in ...
Listening is not the same as being quiet. I say this everywhere I go, and it landed differently in ...
Last week our founder @profalisonbrooks took the stage at the Nordic Business Forum in Helsinki — in...
Last week I was in Helsinki for the Nordic Business Forum — and I have to say, being in a room full ...
There’s a big difference between feedback that sounds useful and feedback you can actually use. “Ma...