Events

We’ve all been in a bad meeting. Actually, we’ve probably been in a lot of them. A good meeting is hard to get right — but Miter, an early-stage startup committed to improving meetings, is using thoughtful design to change that. Informed by behavioral science, organizational behavior, and human psychology, Miter is developing software to help people organize and lead better meetings. 

Miter CEO David Feldman has led teams at Gmail, Facebook Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger and co-founded Emu, a smart messaging app acquired by Google. Dave holds a CS degree from Harvard and somehow still runs a good meeting.

As a seasoned go-to-market leader, Miter COO Damian Wisniewski has built a career around meeting with people. He’s built multiple sales practices at early-stage startups and previously worked at LinkedIn. Damian holds a Mathematics degree from Harvard, an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Dr. Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor at the Harvard Business school, advisor to Miter—and a friend of Irrational Labs. Her research focuses on the links between time, money, and happiness. She is the author of Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time & Live a Happier Life. An expert on time management, she wouldn't schedule a meeting that could have been an email — so you can be sure this event will be worth it.

Product Design with Psychology in Mind

Is it true that 'time is money'? What can we learn about the psychology of time that can help us make smarter decisions?

Join Colin West for insights into time perception and behavior change drawn from an original field experiment on time poverty — at this Irrational Labs open event.

Who is Colin? He’s a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, and a behavioral scientist at Irrational Labs.

He has also worked with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, a US nonprofit based in Nairobi, focused on advancing and applying behavioral science in the Global South. 

Don't miss this chance to gain practical insights into time perception that you can use in your work!

What's Worth More – Time or Money? A Field Experiment with Colin West

Billing is complicated—but it doesn't have to be. At least PadSplit Behavioral Product Manager Shea Fallick and PadSplit VP of Product Mimi Kim thought so.

PadSplit provides a formalized way to sublet and rent a room in a shared apartment, helping to make more housing available for low-income earners. It's an important project, and it's been successful. But as they've expanded, they found that Customer Experience team members were fielding a significant number of billing questions from hosts and renters through their online program, and the volume of questions had become unmanageable. Hoping to reduce customer support costs (and ease the strain on their team), they leveraged behavioral science principles to make the process smoother.

Using new behavioral research from the University of Oregon, in conjunction with the product development cycle, they created new views of their members’ finances for admins and members. The result? They gave their Customer Experience team 350 hours / month back.

This event is an opportunity for behavioral designers, UX researchers, CX experts, and behavioral scientists interested in the PadSplit model, to learn about how they applied behavioral principles to their work, and ask questions along the way.

How PadSplit Simplified Billing and Gave its Team 350 Hours / Month Back

Can behavioral science save us from bad marketing? New platforms and algorithms, metric myopia, and funnel vision make marketing hard—but Buffer Senior Product Marketer and Nudge podcast host Phill Agnew has a solution: human psychology.

Join him to learn about 7 behavioral science tools that will turbocharge your marketing. Phill will share his insights into driving positive behavior change—while building brands and experiences that people love. 

You’ll leave this event with actionable ways to apply behavioral principles to your work—and cure marketing misery. Don’t miss out!

7 Behavioral Science Tools to TurboCharge Your Marketing | With Phill Agnew of Buffer

Need behaviorally informed advice on your course, work, website, or product?

Whatever your question, Irrational Labs CEO & Co-Founder Kristen Berman has answers.

Drop in and get direct access to Kristen's brain during this month's drop-in hours.

🎟 Ask Kristen Anything 

How do you spread positivity in your workplace and create more wellbeing? Louis Alloro has a few ideas—big ideas. A social entrepreneur who creates and facilitates evidence-based learning experiences, he's an expert at helping teams dig deeper and reach higher.

Since 2008, Louis has trained and certified thousands of practitioners and workplaces in applied positive psychology and wellbeing science. His passion? Helping companies, cities, and campuses form Wellbeing Coalitions that can change conversations and behaviors for the better—at scale.

 and The Change Lab and a senior fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Wellbeing at George Mason University—and we're excited for him to share his insights.

Don't miss this event if you want to learn how to use positive psychology to make your workplace (and workforce) happier and healthier!

6 Ways to Refresh Your Workplace in 2023 | Louis Alloro of The Wellbeing Lab & Hone

Incentive design is tricky, and easy to get wrong. But when is it appropriate, and when not? And how do you design incentives that actually work? Richard Mathera shares his insights using examples from real cases where the Irrational Labs team designed incentives using behavioral science.

? As Managing Director at Irrational Labs, he leads the company's healthcare practice and formerly led its financial decision-making work. Richard has overseen dozens of behavioral economics projects and experiments with commercial clients.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn about incentive design from an expert and senior behavioral scientist! 

🎟 How to Design Incentives That Actually Work Using Behavioral Economics with Richard Mathera

Behavioral Design member exclusive! Join behavioral scientist turned dating coach and author of the bestselling 

 Logan Ury for a Q&A session on everything you want to know about the behavioral science of dating:

As Director of Relationship Science at the dating app Hinge, Logan conducts research to help people find love. After studying psychology at Harvard, she joined Google, whose behavioral science team she helped run with Irrational Labs Co-Founder & CEO Kristen Berman.

This event is available to Behavioral Design members ONLY and is sure to get spicy, so don't miss out! 🌶️ 

Q&A With Logan Ury ("How to Not Die Alone") 

? You need to know how to influence human behavior.

Julie O'Brien has the key to this: behavioral design. By marrying behavioral economists' insights into human behavior drivers with design thinking's focus on empathy and innovation, behavioral design provides the 

tools product people need to meaningfully impact behavior

In this event, Julie will explore 3 ways that behavioral design expands on design thinking—and offer 

 for product teams to understand causality during the design process—and 

As Head of Behavioral Science at U.S. Bank, Julie bridges the worlds of academia and design. She understands the fundamental mechanics of how humans operate - and uses that to solve hard problems in products that have a real-world impact.

Don't miss this chance to learn about behavioral design from an expert on the psychology of products!

How Behavioral Design is Changing Product Development | With Julie O'Brien of U.S. Bank

How is AI shaping behavioral science, product design, and behavioral design? What can you do to stay ahead of the curve?

Join Irrational Labs behavioral scientist and futurist 

 to learn 3 ways artificial intelligence is impacting the field—and how you can navigate AI innovatively and ethically as a product manager, marketer, or designer.

If you want to keep on the cutting edge and supercharge your product development process with AI and behavioral science, this event is for you!

3 Ways AI Will Change Behavioral Design

Ever wonder how you can incorporate Behavioral Science in your organization? Look no further than our very own 

, Behavioral Scientist and Vice President of Experience Design at  ATB Financial.

 this month's open event, Jen will share her experience of embedding BeSci practices into a legacy bank. This event is perfect for any company leaders who are looking to improve their business and user outcomes!  