BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.drfonline.org//event CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Danville Regional Foundation Speaker Series 2015 UID:171C4F74F476EFCDE2616F4060909F1F ORGANIZER:MAILTO:lmerricks@drfonline.org DTSTART:20151104T063000 DTEND:20151104T083000 DTSTAMP:20260517T063758 DESCRIPTION: WHERE: Institute for Advanced Learning & ResearchDani el H. Pink is the author of five provocative books about the changing wo rld of work, including the long-running New York Times best seller, A Wh ole New Mind, and the #1 New York Times best seller, Drive. His books ha ve been translated into 33 languages. Currently, Pink hosts Crowd Contro l, a series on National Geographic Television that takes problems and cr eates solutions using unique design, technology and behavioral science p rinciples.For his visit to the Dan River Region, Dan will be speaking on DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, using 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motiv ation. Pink shows that carrot and stick motivators have been oversold an d that high performance depends much more on the deeply human need to di rect our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by o urselves and the world. Drive is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wa ll Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicl e and Los Angeles Times bestseller—as well as a national best sell er inJapan and the United Kingdom.Pink's articles on business and techno logy have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, H arvard Business Review, The Sunday Telegraph, Fast Company and Wired. He has provided analysis of business trends onCNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and oth er networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also advises both Fortune 100 com panies and startups on recruiting, innovation and work practices.A free agent himself, he held his last real job in the White House, where he se rved from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in o ther positions in politics and government.He received a B.A. from Northw estern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. fr om Yale Law School.Pink lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n

WHERE: Institute for Advanced Learning & Research

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five provocative books ab out the changing world of work, including the long-running New York Time s best seller, A Whole New Mind, and the #1 New York Times best seller, Drive. His books have been translated into 33 languages. Currently, Pink hosts Crowd Control, a series on National Geographic Television that ta kes problems and creates solutions using unique design, technology and b ehavioral science principles.
For his visit to the Dan River Region , Dan will be speaking on DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivat es Us, using 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation. Pink shows that carrot and stick motivat ors have been oversold and that high performance depends much more on th e deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new thi ngs and to do better by ourselves and the world. Drive is a New York Tim es, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Glob e, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller—as wel l as a national best seller in
Japan and the United Kingdom.
P ink's articles on business and technology have appeared in many publicat ions, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Telegraph, Fast Company and Wired. He has provided analysis of business trends on
CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and a broad. He also advises both Fortune 100 companies and startups on recrui ting, innovation and work practices.
A free agent himself, he held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an a ide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in polit ics and government.
He received a B.A. from Northwestern University , where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law Schoo l.
Pink lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three chil dren.

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