Dr. Kristen Lee

Dr. Kristen Lee, Ed.D., LICSW, is a renowned behavioral science clinician, researcher, educator, speaker, and comedian from Boston, Massachusetts. As Behavioral Science Faculty at Northeastern University, Dr. Kris’s research and teaching interests include individual and organizational well-being and resilience, particularly for marginalized and underserved populations.  Dr. Kris works with organizations and leaders around the world on how to use the science of behavioral change and human potential to build healthy mental health cultures that help prevent burnout and promote organizational and human sustainability. 

She is the author of RESET: Make the Most of Your Stress, winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Motivational Book of 2015, best-selling Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking-Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World and Worth the Risk: Learn to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World, a 2022 Next Big Idea Book Club nominee and Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal Winner. She is the host of Crackin’ Up: Where Therapy Meets Comedy and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Thrive Global. Dr. Kris’s work has been featured at Harvard and on NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, and CBS radio. In 2022, she received a First Place MVP award from EdTech for her work on addressing mental health challenges in higher education; in 2023, an honorary doctorate for her work in mental health. Her TedX talk, The Risk You Must Take (427K views)  is featured on Ted. In her spare time, she can be found out on the running trails, attempting tricky yoga poses, eating peanut butter cups and drinking kale juice—but not all at once. Connect with her at www.kristenlee.com or via social media @DrKrisLee.

Dr. Max Klau

Dr. Max Klau is a consultant, author, speaker, and Integral Master Coach based in Boston, Massachusetts.  He received his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005 with a focus on the adaptive leadership model.  He currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the New Politics Leadership Academy (NPLA), an organization focused on bringing more servant leaders into politics.  As the Chief Program Officer at NPLA from 2016-2024, Max designed a sequence of leadership development programs that have graduated more than 2,200 servant leaders.   Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Leadership Development at City Year, the education-focused AmeriCorps program.  His writing about leadership has appeared in Fast Company and the Harvard Business Review and his first book, Race & Social Change:  A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action, was published in 2017 and has been featured on multiple lists of resources related to systemic racism.  He hosts a podcast focused on the Inner Development Goals, and fronts his own folk rock band.  Learn more about him at www.maxklau.com.