Marcus Conyers

Marcus Conyers, Ph.D., is a research supervisor for the Ph.D. in Professional Practice: Psychological Perspectives at the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University. He codeveloped the world’s first doctoral minor in brain-based leadership and the first master of science and educational specialist degree programs focused on applied mind, brain, and education science (BrainSMART® Programs) with Nova Southeastern University. Marcus is an author of 20 books in this field, including Developing Growth Mindsets (2020), Smarter Teacher Leadership (Teachers College Press, 2016), Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains (2016), Introduction to BrainSMART Teaching (2018), and Positively Smarter (2015). A cofounder of BrainSMART, an international learning and development group, Marcus has worked in 30 countries and shared his programs with more than 100,000 people on five continents. In addition to ministers of education in South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Ontario, Canada, his audiences have included Navy Seals, Army Rangers, counterintelligence operatives, law enforcement officers, educators, and business leaders globally. His passion is for improving lives through innovative applications of the cognitive and implementation sciences. He is cofounder of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Center for Innovative Education and Prevention. To bring Marcus to your organization, contact him at marcus@brainsmart.org. Visit his website at www.brainsmart.org and his blog at www.innovatingminds.org.