Tiffany Shlain

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Fees* On Request

Tagline: Creativity Speaker

Talent Highlights

Tiffany Shlain will explore in her inspiring talk how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul.  By doing this practice for over a decade, Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence. Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and wisdom, Shlain shares her story, offers lessons she has learned, and provides a blueprint for how to do it yourself.

Keynote Topics

Creating the New Work/ Life Balance in Our New Hybrid World

A dynamic presentation with interactive components for employees and employers, together.

As we reemerge from the pandemic, companies everywhere are asking: How do we work smarter?

How do we maximize the benefits of technology (including remote work) while maintaining quality in-person office time?

How do we create a work culture where both employers and employees can prosper?

This talk offers effective answers for the new workplace. 

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of The Webby Awards. She is the recipient for the 2021 Creating The Future Award from the Maui Film Festival. The Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered her live one-woman “Spoken Cinema” show, Dear Human right before the pandemic. Tiffany Shlain book […]

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of The Webby Awards.

She is the recipient for the 2021 Creating The Future Award from the Maui Film Festival. The Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered her live one-woman “Spoken Cinema” show, Dear Human right before the pandemic.

Tiffany Shlain book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week was published by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books and has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and the Washington Post. 24/6 received The Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award, a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and was included on bestseller lists including Best Business Books, Top Tech Books and the Library Journal national bestseller list and Best High Tech Audio Books.

24/6 explores her family’s decade-long, transformative practice of turning off screens one day each week for what they call their Technology Shabbats; the past, present and future of technology; and the effects our 24/7 world has on individuals, our relationships, and our society.

The Sundance Film Festival has premiered four of Tiffany Shlain films, including her acclaimed feature documentary Connected: An Autobiography about Love, Death & Technology, which the New York Times hailed as “high-tech Terry Gilliam,” and “examining everything from the Big Bang to Twitter.”

The US State Department has selected four of Shlain’s films including Connected to represent the US at embassies around the world for their American Film Showcase, and she serves as a film expert for selected envoys.

Tiffany’s film 50/50: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women + Power, premiered live at TEDWomen, at 275 TEDx’s globally, and on Refinery29. It was the centerpiece film for first annual 50/50 Day which had over 11,000 screenings around the globe all linked together in an online discussion about what it’s going to take to get to a more gender balanced world.

Her films and art installations have shown at museums including MoMA NYC and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum.

Tiffany Shlain original series, The Future Starts Here was nominated for an Emmy Award in New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture and has over 40 million views to date. Shlain’s films employ her signature style of fast-paced images, colorful animations, deep scientific research, and daring and funny insights to encourage us all to think about where we’re headed in our increasingly connected world.

Tiffany Shlain | Creativity Speaker

Tiffany Shlain is a world-renowned speaker and has given keynotes at Google, Harvard, and NASA, and was the closing speaker for TEDWomen and TEDMED. Tiffany was the on-air Internet expert on ABC’s Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer in the early days of the web, is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and was invited to advise then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the Internet and technology.

She currently serves on the Leadership Board of The Digital Wellness Lab at Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital. She has contributed articles to Harvard Business Review and CNN Documentary Magazine. TED Conferences published a TEDBook based on one of her films, Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, and she has been writing a quarterly newsletter about ideas and culture since 1998 called Breakfast @ Tiffany’s.

Tiffany Shlain runs the Let it Ripple Studio where they make films and create global days around subjects shaping our lives. Their global initiative Character Day features films on character development (including her films The Science of Character, The Making of a Mensch and The Adaptable Mind) and brought together over 200,000 groups in 125 countries and all 50 states.

She is also co-founder of 50/50 Day, Character Day and the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

​Her films have been translated into multiple languages and had over 50 million views.

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