
Ethan Kross, PhD, author of the national bestseller Chatter and forthcoming shift, is one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.

Dana Black is an executive public speaking coach, moderator, storyteller, emcee, podcast host and creator of I Swear on My Mother’s Grave, and a SAG-AFTRA TV/film/voiceover actor for over 15 years. She has performed on stages throughout Chicago and beyond.
For the last 3 years, Dana has been a speaker delivery coach for TEDxChicago, and coaches local business leaders and entrepreneurs right here in Traverse City. She loves helping people craft their story and messaging with more ease, confidence and authenticity. Dana is also the casting director/project manager for actors for the Southwest Institute for Emotional Intelligence.
Dana moved to Traverse City 2 years ago after living in Chicago for over 20 years. Dana is now an active Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sister, a TART Trail Ambassador, an emcee for the ATHENA Awards, a playwriting mentor for the Young Playwrights Festival at the City Opera House (where she serves on the board) and is thrilled to now be a moderator with the National Writers Series. Oh, and she loves to kayak!

Local Bookstores
Bay Books – Suttons Bay
Brilliant Books – Traverse City
Cottage Book Shop – Glen Arbor
Horizon Books – Traverse City
McLean & Eakin – Petoskey
Saturn Booksellers – Gaylord

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