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Books Authored
700M+
Thrive Global Valuation
315M
HuffPost Sale to AOL
100
Time Most Influential
Biography
Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including international bestsellers Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving health outcomes and productivity.
Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 17 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She has been named to Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.
About Thrive Global
Founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016, Thrive Global is a leading behavior change technology company with the mission to improve productivity and health outcomes – one Microstep at a time. Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well-being, performance and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps – small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity – have been adopted by employees at more than 200 organizations in over 160 countries, from frontline and call center workers to executives at multinational companies. For more information, visit www.thriveglobal.com.
Key Topics at the Symposium
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Burnout prevention and the science of recovery
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Sustainable leadership in high-pressure environments
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Sleep, rest, and biological performance
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Behavior-change technology for everyday wellbeing
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Affiliations
Thrive Global
Founder & CEO
HuffPost
Founder (departed 2016)
Onex Corporation
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Global Citizen
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Join Arianna Huffington and 8 world-class speakers in Athens, October 30 – November 1, 2026.
Lynne McTaggart of London, England, is an award-winning journalist and author of the international bestsellers Living The Field and The Intention Experiment, a series of scientifically controlled, web-based experiments testing the power of intention to change the physical world. McTaggart is an authority on the science of spirituality and gives conferences and workshops on spirituality and health, including the Intention Workshops, which she says teach "the real truth of intention and how to harness its enormous power to heal your life – and to heal the world." She and husband/publisher Bryan Hubbard, also a journalist, are directors of What Doctors Don't Tell You Ltd, which publishes the internationally acclaimed magazine What Doctors Don't Tell You, that gives scientific critiques of mainstream medicine and reviews health problems, providing what they call "safer, proven ways of treating them".
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. of Boulder Creek, California, is one of the primary creators of the Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) and director of research for GCI and HeartMath Institute. He is project coordinator and the principle designer of GCI’s scientific component, the Global Coherence Monitoring System and its international network of magnetic field sensor sites. A professor at Florida Atlantic University, McCraty heads up HMI and GCI researchers investigating the relationship between human and geomagnetic field environments and the interconnectedness of and communication among all living things. They are studying how these fields act as central synchronizing signals within the body, carry emotional information and serve as key mediators of energetic interactions between people and living systems. McCraty holds numerous memberships, including with the American Autonomic Society, Pavlovian Society, National Association for Psychological Science, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and Society for Scientific Exploration. He has written scientific articles for many professional journals, given interviews for feature articles and television segments and appeared in numerous documentary films.
Deborah Rozman of Boulder Creek, California, is President and CEO of HeartMath Inc, an a behavioral psychologist with over 30 years of experience as a business executive, educator, author, and researcher in the psychology of consciousness. Rozman has written numerous books, including the award-winning Meditating With Children and co-authoring with HeartMath founder Doc Childre the Transforming Series – Transforming Anger, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. HeartMath Inc develops and manufactures the Inner Balance and emWave heart-rhythm coherence feedback technologies and the new HeartMath app. Deborah serves on the HeartMath Institute's Scientific Advisory Board and is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath System, giving interviews and keynote addresses around the world.
Howard Martin brings more than thirty years of experience in business and personal development to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategic Development. Howard’s responsibilities include global alliances, marketing, and program and product development. Howard has been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre in the development and teaching of HeartMath’s programs since its inception. He speaks internationally on the HeartMath approach to advancing human performance that is based on compelling scientific research linking heart function with health, emotional well-being and intelligence. Howard is co-author with Doc Childre of The HeartMath Solution, published in 2000 by Harper San Francisco. He also developed Nightingale-Conant’s tape series, “The HeartMath Method.” Howard is a dynamic speaker, and has delivered hundreds of workshops and keynote addresses to audiences ranging from corporations, to the armed forces, to educators, families, and human service providers. As a key spokesperson for HeartMath, he has conducted hundreds of media interviews. His appearances include CNN Headline News, U.P.I. Radio network, WNBC-TV-New York, WGN-TV-Chicago, Discovery Channel-Beyond 2000, CBN/Canada, New Women, Muscle and Fitness, San Francisco Chronicle, Billboard, and the Boston Globe.