Dr. Jenny Woo expertly melds rigorous research with real-world insights and immediately actionable tools to help people become happier, calmer, and wiser.
This week, Girls That Create host Erin Prather Stafford welcomes Dr. Jenny Woo to the show. Dr. Woo is a Harvard-trained educator and Emotional Intelligence researcher. She teaches at the University of California-Irvine and is the founder/CEO of Mind Brain Emotion.
Incubated out of Harvard Innovation Lab, Dr. Woo created a series of award-winning card games and mental health tools to help kids and adults build essential human skills, such as emotional intelligence, social skills, empathy, and communication skills. Her product line has been used in workplaces, schools, and homes in more than 50 countries.
About Jenny Woo
In addition to her MEd from Harvard, MBA from UC Berkeley, and PhD from UC Irvine, she also spent several years as a Human Capital Consultant at Deloitte, Executive Coach and HR professional at Cisco in Talent Strategy & Succession Planning, Director at a network of Montessori Schools, and Cognitive Science researcher on memory training & intervention for aging adults.
Dr. Woo is a two-time TEDx speaker (“How to Be Self-ish Without Feeling Selfish”), author, and has been featured in CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, FORTUNE, Parents, and The Harvard Gazette.
For more information about Mind Brain Emotion and its cards, visit mindbrainemotion.com
Host Erin Prather Stafford launched Girls That Create to support the parents and caregivers of creative girls while encouraging greater female representation across the arts. For more information, go to girlsthatcreate.com and follow and connect on Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube.
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