Chip Conley

Chip Conley is a Founder at Modern Elder Academy. As the preeminent thought leader at the intersection of psychology and business, and a successful practitioner of emotional intelligence at work, Chip shared his unique prescription for success in PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Based on noted psychologist Abraham Maslow’s iconic Hierarchy of Needs theory, PEAK illustrates how a business’s three key stakeholders – employees, customers, and investors – are ultimately motivated by peak experiences that address their higher, unspoken needs. In his latest book, The New York Times bestseller, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, Chip takes readers from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency – using math as a way to better understand and manage our emotions. Chip’s earlier works include The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, and Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World. After 24 years as JDV’s CEO, Chip is now a Strategic Advisor to the company Chip founded, and a successful author and international speaker for organizations from TED to PIXAR to GOOGLE. Chip has been honored with the highest accolade in the American hospitality industry, the coveted ISHC Pioneer award, and the San Francisco Business Times named him the Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the “2nd Best Place to Work” – in the entire Bay Area. A committed philanthropist, he served on the Board of Glide Memorial Church for nearly a decade. Chip currently serves on the boards of Burning Man Project, Esalen Institute, and Youth Speaks. Chip created the San Francisco Hotel Hero Awards and founded the city’s Annual Celebrity Pool Toss event, which has raised millions for inner-city youth programs that now thrive in the troubled neighborhood where he launched his first hotel. Chip received his B.A. and MBA from Stanford University and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook University, where he is the 2012 Scholar-Practitioner in residence.