Chip Conley
At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre and, as CEO, expanded it to over 35 award-winning hotels – the second largest boutique hotel company in America. Chip is a practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success. Chip speaks around the world on the intersection of psychology and business, finding meaning at work, and is a regular blogger on The Huffington Post and his own blog at www.emotionalequations.com. Chip has been honored with the highest accolade in the American hospitality industry, the ISHC Pioneer award, and was named Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the "2nd Best Place to Work" – in the Bay Area by The San Francisco Business Times. He received his BA and MBA from Stanford University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook University, where he is the 2012 Scholar-Practitioner in residence.
