Dr. Elias Aboujaoude is a psychiatry professor, researcher and author at Stanford University, where he heads the Anxiety Disorders Section and the OCD Clinic. He has also held positions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of California in Berkeley, the University of California in San Francisco and the University of York in the United Kingdom. Dr. Aboujaoude has conducted pioneering research on the interface between technology and psychology. In Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the e-Personality (New York Times Editors’ Choice), he sounded an early alarm in the heart of Silicon Valley about the psychological and cultural costs of runaway internet technologies. His most recent book, A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality and Character Make All the Difference, has been praised as a "distinctive, thought-provoking view on leadership in the twenty-first century.” In it, he debunks a “leadership industrial complex” of executive coaches, training programs and leadership bootcamps that promises leadership gold as he explores the true underpinnings of successful and happy leadership.

Alongside his academic work, Dr. Aboujaoude has served in several roles in the tech startup sector and co-founded the first telemedicine company in Silicon Valley to deliver remote mental health care.

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Elias's work has been widely covered, including in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Congressional Quarterly, Wired and TIME, and on National Public Radio, BBC, CNN, FOX and CBS. He has lectured in over 20 countries, and to audiences that vary from university-wide convocations to CIA personnel.