TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Popular author and editor Daniel Pink will deliver a public lecture titled “A Whole New Mind” Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on The University of Alabama campus.
UA’s College of Commerce and Business Administration and the College of Arts and Sciences joins forces with the Creative Campus Creative Community Initiative, the Career Center and the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama in presenting the free event.
Tickets are required, but will be available for free from the Creative Campus Box Office in room 232 of UA’s Ferguson Center starting Sept. 4 at 9 a.m. For more information, call 205/348-6933. Free tickets are also available at https://frcx2.ua.edu/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=UASurvey&-loadframes.
Pink is a best-selling author and an expert on innovation, competition and the changing world of work. His latest book, “A Whole New Mind,” charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and explains the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced and automated world.
Reviewers have described the book as “an audacious and powerful work,” “a profound read,” “right on the money,” and “a miracle.” Several publications – including strategy+business, The Miami Herald, and Fast Company – named it one of the best business books of 2005. “A Whole New Mind” is being translated into 12 languages and will be published across Europe and Asia in 2006.
Pink’s first book, “Free Agent Nation,” about the rise of people working for themselves, was a Washington Post nonfiction best seller and a business best seller in the United States and Canada. Fortune Small Business cited it as one of “ten milestones in management thinking” in the last century. Publishers Weekly said that the book “has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations.”
His articles on work, business, and technology appear in many newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, Fast Company and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He also writes “The Trend Desk” column for Yahoo! Finance.
Pink has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR and other networks. And as an independent business consultant, he has advised start-up ventures and FORTUNE 100 companies on recruiting, innovation, and work practices.
A free agent himself, Pink held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He has also worked as an aide to United States Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, an economic policy staffer in the United States Senate, a legal researcher in India, and a latrine builder in Botswana.
He received the Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in linguistics from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and he received the Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School.
Pink lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and their three children.
Contact
Alexis Clark, Coordinator, UA Creative Campus, 205/348-6933, aclark@bama.ua.edu