Priya Parker

Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time.

Parker is a conflict resolution facilitator, strategic advisor and acclaimed author of "The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters," as well as the forthcoming "The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict," Which will be released this fall. She is the executive producer and host of the New York Times podcast "Together Apart" and she regularly teaches on her Substack, Group Life.

Parker has spent 20 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community, identity and vision during moments of transition. Trained in conflict resolution, she has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, Southern Africa and India.

Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network. She studied organizational design at MIT, public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.

"The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters" (Riverhead, 2018) was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Amazon, Esquire, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED main stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed more than 3 million times. Her work has been featured in numerous outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, TED.com, Forbes.com, Real Simple, Oprah.com, Bloomberg, Glamour, the Today show and Morning Joe. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and their two children.