Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Marc Brackett, Ph.D. (FAN ’19, ’25), is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, and the author of the 2019 bestselling book Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success and 2025’s Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want.

Brackett is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than five thousand schools around the globe, and is the author of more than two hundred scholarly publications. He has been featured in many prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, Today, and the Huberman Lab podcast, and has been the keynote speaker at more than seven hundred conferences around the world, including ones hosted by the White House, The New York Times, and the Aspen Institute.

Brackett regularly consults with Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft on best practices for integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into the workplace. In 2022, with Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann, Brackett and his team co-created HowWeFeel, an award-winning free Apple app designed to teach emotion skills and cultivate emotional well-being. In 2024, he launched the YouTube webcast Dealing with Feelings.

 

 

Speaker's Events

ZOOM EVENT

The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Mar 17 2026
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 4 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 30 2025
IN-PERSON ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP

FAN Roundtable Workshop: Dealing with Feeling (Event 1 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025
EDUCATOR EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

FOR EDUCATORS – Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 2 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 3 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025
Grand Rounds Presentation

Grand Rounds: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 1 2019

Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 1 2019