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Alison Wood Brooks
Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks helps organizations transform workplace communication through conversation science. Alison works with leaders on negotiation, feedback delivery, and trust-building dialogue, delivering research-backed strategies featured in top academic journals and major media outlets.
Alison Wood Brooks is a Harvard Business School professor whose research has redefined how we understand the mechanics of conversation in professional settings.
She is the author of groundbreaking studies on the science of talk, published in top academic journals and featured in major media outlets. Her work at Harvard focuses on negotiation, feedback, and the subtle dynamics that make or break workplace communication.
Alison's research offers practical tools for leaders who struggle with conversations that should be simple but rarely are. She shows how small shifts in how we ask questions, give feedback, and engage in everyday talk can reshape team culture. Her findings reveal why some conversations build trust and spark collaboration while others shut people down, and she translates that science into actionable strategies for any professional context.
Audiences leave her keynotes with a clearer understanding of why conversations fail, specific techniques for asking better questions that surface new ideas, and proven methods for giving feedback that strengthens rather than fractures relationships. Her approach is grounded in data, not intuition, which means the strategies hold up under pressure.
Book Alison Wood Brooks to give your team the science behind what makes people actually listen, connect, and collaborate.
Alison brings Harvard-level research on negotiation and feedback dynamics that translates directly into stronger team conversations and trust-building at scale. Her data-backed methods give leaders practical frameworks for the high-stakes discussions that typically derail or disengage people, particularly around performance feedback and cross-functional alignment.
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Alison Wood Brooks draws on her peer-reviewed research from Harvard Business School to structure keynotes around data-backed frameworks for conversation, covering question design, feedback delivery, and negotiation dynamics.
Alison Wood Brooks speaks on the science of conversation, negotiation, feedback, and the dynamics of workplace communication. She is a professor at Harvard Business School, where her research on talk and professional interaction has been published in leading academic journals and covered by major media outlets.
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