Mensa Foundation Events - Speaker Series 2025

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Speaker Series 2025

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11/8/25 at 2PM CT /90-minute Virtual Session

Exploring Human Potential

The Mensa Foundation Speaker Series is a bi-monthly journey into intelligence, giftedness, and neurodiversity. Each session brings world-class experts to explore new ideas, challenge assumptions, and spark meaningful dialogue about what it means to be human in a rapidly changing world.

Topic

Improve Your Life with Brain Science

Live online on 12/13/25 at 2PM CT — a practical, science-backed conversation with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Therese Huston, author of Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science. Recording included.

Join us for a live, online conversation with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Therese Huston on how brain science can make everyday life clearer, calmer, and more manageable. Drawing from her book Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science, Dr. Huston will share research-based strategies you can use right away to boost focus, strengthen decision-making, and protect your mental well-being.

Whether you’re juggling a demanding schedule, navigating big life decisions, or simply wanting to feel a little more “sharp” each day, you’ll leave with concrete tools to get more from the brain you already have. Your $50 registration also includes access to the full recording so you can watch, pause, and revisit the session on your own schedule.

Reserve Your Spot

Watch from anywhere, on your own schedule. Your registration includes access to the full recording, so you can pause, rewind, and revisit the ideas at your own pace — all for just $50.

Speaker

Therese Huston, Ph.D.

Dr. Huston is a cognitive neuroscientist at Seattle University who turns good science into practical strategies for everyday life. A teacher at heart, she focuses on helping people understand how their brains work so they can think, lead, and learn more effectively.

Dr. Huston has consulted with universities, Fortune 500 companies, and tech organizations around the world, offering workshops on decision-making, bias, and brain-wise performance. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, TIME, The Guardian, and Harvard Business Review. Although she’s the author of five books, she’s especially proud of her two most recent: Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science and Best Brain Ever, a middle-schooler’s guide to being their best self.

Dr. Huston received her MS and PhD in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in Organizational Leadership from Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University and now serves as a consultant for the university’s Center for Faculty Development. She lives in Seattle with her husband and their very opinionated Boston Terrier, who clearly knows who’s really in charge.