John Coates

Behavioural neuroscientist, John Coates is renowned for his innovative speeches on human wellbeing and behaviour. Specialising in such topics as workplace culture and decision making, he has the knowledge to drastically improve a businesses' productivity, and ultimately its profitability. John believes that the key to success is in wellbeing and health, especially in a company's employees. As an expert in risk management, John's strategies to calculating decision payoff can turn a stagnant business into a flourishing success through how they understand workplace stress. John is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk-Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind, a financial bestseller which explored the psychology of risk. In his book, which earned international critical acclaim, John likened the relationship between a winning streak and irrational decision making, to the transformation in Jekyll-and-Hyde.

Inspired by his neurological research, John exposes the impact of testosterone on risky choices, and how workplace stress can damage our health, judgement and relationships. The book has been described as "profoundly unconventional" by and a "powerful distillation of his work" as a senior researcher.

As a physiological and neurological scientist, John's impact has expanded to influence a number of important sectors, including finance, healthcare, technology, military and law. John was an esteemed Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Finance at the University of Cambridge and continues to use the subjects he developed in this period of his life as a speaker. John is also a prominent businessman, having traded derivatives for Goldman Sachs, which requires a calm, keen and calculated eye for detail. Additionally, John operated a trading desk for Deutsche Bank. John has dedicated his life to studying the physiological indicators of risk and decision making, including hormonal changes and body language. He is a firm believer that workplace stress can be damaging to the health of employees, coupled with fatigue it can be detrimental to people's emotional wellbeing. As a science speaker, he presents the physical differences between men and women, how neuroscience will shape the workplace of the future and the relationship between humans and machines.