Brian Little

Harvard Professor, Expert on Personalities and Behavior

Personalities at Work: Toward a Free Trait Agreement

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Want to know what makes your co-workers and clients tick? Brian Little will tell you. An award-winning psychologist and university professor, Little is the expert in understanding human behaviors and personalities. In his engaging and practical keynotes, he explores how specific types of personalities react to certain situations, how different personalities work together, and how a better understanding of these issues can improve and enrich all our of the relationships.

Dr. Little holds joint appointments at Harvard and Carleton University. He has delivered over 500 keynotes, in both classroom and corporate settings, and has received many awards, including the 3M Fellowship, Canada's highest award for university teaching. Whether you need to reconnect with clients to improve sales, coach co-workers on stress and conflict management, or generate positive thinking about personality differences in the workplace, Little is the popular, profound -- and profoundly hilarious -- speaker who can help you.

In his classic talk, "Personalities at Work: Toward a Free Trait Agreement," Dr. Little shows you how individual differences in personality play a subtle but vital role in the lives of professionals, their clients, and the broader community. With practical examples, he illustrates the effect of personality on communication, memory, learning styles, and decision-making. However, he also argues that in our professional work, we are not always what we appear to be. He rejects the notion that we have "fixed traits" that are set like plaster. He argues that we have “free traits” and are, at worst, only "half-plastered."

Dr. Little issues a call for a “free trait agreement” in which we will undertake to act out of character if we are provided restorative niches in which we can occasionally escape into our first natures. Presented with wit and whimsy, this classic talk is deeply provocative, even touching.

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