This author talk will be held online via our Authors and Speakers site, in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium. On registering using the Event Link (see below), you'll receive an email with the watch link, as well as email reminders as the event approaches. After the talk ends, you'll receive an email with a link to the recording.

Get yourself primed for the holiday season and join us for an online conversation you won't want to miss! Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his latest work, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. 

In this groundbreaking book, Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and science - of successful communication. He unpacks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart, reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together, and shows how even the trickiest encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows how a CIA operative could win over a reluctant spy, how a jury member got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine skeptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to connect with others successfully, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say and how you say it.

Register now to take part in the online discussion, learn how to enhance your everyday conversations, and add a new title to the holiday wishlist!

About the Author: Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of Supercommunicators, The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, and was the founding host of the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.