Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

He is the author of ten bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold, and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages and has appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.

A lifelong environmentalist and animal rights advocate, Steven is the co-founder of Planet Home, a conference/concert/innovation accelerator focused on solving critical environmental challenges, and the co-founder of The Forest + Fire Collective, a network of individuals and organizations dedicated to ending catastrophic wildfire and restoring forest health to the American West. Alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is also the co-founder of the Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice care and special needs dog sanctuary.