Steven Kotler is a New York Times–bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, where his work focuses on the neuroscience of flow, intuition, creativity, and human performance. He is the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, a nonprofit research and training organization studying the brain at its best to heal it at its worst.
The author of seventeen books, including thirteen bestsellers, Kotler’s work has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations, been translated into more than eighty languages, and appeared in over a hundred publications, ranging from scientific journals such as Nature and the Journal of Consciousness Studies to mainstream outlets including The Atlantic, Wired, TIME, and Harvard Business Review. The New York Times called him “one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.”
His science fiction is also quite popular.
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TRAIN WITH STEVEN
PEAK PERFORMANCE LABS
Two-hour digital intensives that translate the science of flow, focus, motivation, recovery, and peak performance into practical tools you can use immediately. Designed for individuals and teams looking to sharpen attention, accelerate learning, build resilience, and get way more done in way less time.
VELOCITY WEEKEND
A three-day immersive intensive for CEOs, founders, and executives navigating accelerating change. Built for leaders facing complexity, uncertainty, and information overload, the Velocity Weekend focuses on organizational performance: decision-making under pressure, high-speed cooperation, adaptive leadership, high-flow team design, Human-AI symbiosis, and building an organization that thrives under challenge.
THE ALLIANCE
An intimate year-long mastermind for creative leaders and visionary entrepreneurs trying to build extraordinary things and leave a mark. Part accelerator, part think tank, the Alliance combines neuroscience, creativity, community, accountability, and a peak performance incubator for people serious about lighting the world on fire.
THE Science
The Flow Research Collective started with a question: what happens in the brain when humans perform at their absolute best?
That question led to a body of peer-reviewed research, which led to a training methodology, which led to 35,000 people in 156 countries across 28 industries learning to access peak performance on demand. Forbes called FRC one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
But the research never stopped—and it revealed something unexpected.
The same neuroscience that unlocks peak performance has profound implications for mental health. Today, FRC is a nonprofit R&D organization applying that science where it matters most: PTSD and depression in combat veterans and first responders, and the neurological challenges of ALS.
We study the brain at its best to develop treatments for when it is at its worst.
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Steven Kotler speaks on the science and practice of peak performance, creativity, flow, artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and what it takes to thrive in an accelerating world. Equal parts storyteller, scientist, and journalist, his talks blend neuroscience, applicable insight, and hard-won lessons gathered from decades spent studying human performance at the edge of possibility. Whether speaking to Fortune 500 companies, founders, elite military organizations, or global leadership teams, Steven leaves audiences stunned by their own potential, armed with tools, brimming with questions, and ready to meet a future arriving faster than anyone expected.
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