Eduardo Briceño

Eduardo Briceño is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and author who helps organizations across industries advance their culture and systems to drive learning and high performance. He has been a featured keynote speaker for hundreds of organizations, including global companies like Microsoft, AstraZeneca, and Siemens; nonprofits such as the Special Olympics and the Make-A-Wish Foundation; and colleges and universities, including Harvard, Arizona State, and Stanford.

His TED and TEDx talks have been viewed more than nine million times. In 2023, Briceño was selected by Thinkers50—described by the Financial Times as the “Oscars of management thinking”—for the Breakthrough Idea Award Shortlist, which is given to thinkers who “have ignited Eureka moments in management, offering radical ideas that have the potential to reshape the future of business as we know it,”

Early in his career, Briceño saw that while companies and individuals know they need to be learning and growing, the pressure to perform often undermines the experimentation and innovation necessary for growth. Why do we get stuck in well-worn patterns of habits that don’t move us forward? Briceño explains that many of us are trapped in the “Performance Paradox”—the counterintuitive phenomenon whereby focusing solely on performing makes our performance suffer. In his book The Performance Paradox: Turning the Power of Mindset into Action, Briceño asks how we can we give ourselves the space to experiment and grow while also delivering high-level outcomes. The result is a revolutionary guide that helps organizations bolster team success by balancing learning and performing. The book was selected as a Must-Read by the Next Big Idea Club.

In his book, keynote talks, and workshops, Briceño reveals how to avoid habits that stagnate growth, how to unlock the power of mistakes, how to lead teams that flourish and outperform their targets, and how to improve skills and output simultaneously and for the long term.

Together with Stanford professor Carol Dweck, author of the seminal book Mindset, Briceño cofounded Mindset Works, a company he led as CEO for more than a decade. Prior to that, he was a venture capital investor with the Sprout Group and served on several for-profit and nonprofit boards. Briceño started his career as an investment banking analyst with Credit Suisse. He is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network.

Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Briceño holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an MBA and an M.A. in education from Stanford University.

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