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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and keynote speaker who helps organizations make evidence-based decisions using AI and behavioral data. Seth works with Fortune 500 companies on consumer behavior, talent analytics, and AI-driven strategy. New York Times bestselling author and former Google data scientist.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and New York Times bestselling author who uses large-scale datasets to answer the questions people struggle with most in life and business.
A former data scientist at Google and visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, Seth holds a PhD in economics from Harvard. His three books, Everybody Lies, Don't Trust Your Gut, and Who Makes the NBA?, have earned praise from Adam Grant, Steven Pinker, and Daniel H. Pink, who called him a data revolution "prophet."
Seth's research draws on millions of data points to challenge the gut instincts that lead people astray on major life decisions. His work shows, with specificity, where intuition fails and where evidence succeeds, covering everything from hiring and consumer behavior to personal choices about careers, relationships, and location. He also demonstrates how AI tools like ChatGPT now allow individuals and organizations to analyze data faster than ever before.
Audiences leave Seth's talks with practical frameworks for making smarter decisions using available data, a clearer understanding of what customers and people actually want versus what they say they want, and concrete methods for applying AI-driven analysis to everyday business problems.
Book Seth to give your audience the tools to replace guesswork with evidence and make decisions that lead to measurably better outcomes.
Seth's Harvard PhD and Google background give him rare credibility in translating massive datasets into decision frameworks that actually work. His research exposes the gap between what customers say and what they do, which makes him particularly valuable for teams navigating strategy, hiring, or market positioning where gut instinct typically dominates.
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz draws on large-scale datasets — including Google search data and other population-level sources — to expose the gap between what people say and what they actually do, using this evidence to challenge common assumptions in business and personal decision-making.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz speaks on data-driven decision making, the limits of human intuition, consumer behaviour, and the application of AI tools such as ChatGPT to business analysis. He is a New York Times bestselling author of three books, a former data scientist at Google, and holds a PhD in economics from Harvard.
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