Marc Brackett

Founder and Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., author of Permission to Feel, is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Marc has published 125 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a digital learning system for businesses to integrate emotional intelligence principles into the workplace. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 2,000 pre-K to high schools across the United States and in other countries. Marc is on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and consults regularly with corporations like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google.