WI2022: Jane will be the opening keynote speaker at Winter Institute this February six weeks
before on-sale. BESTSELLING AUTHOR: McGonigal’s first book REALITY IS BROKEN was a NYT
bestseller and made McGonigal a celebrity in the gaming and futurist communities. DYNAMIC
SPEAKER: McGonigal’s TED talks have over 15 million views. She gave the keynote at SxSW and was
awarded Best Speaker” honors. Lectures and live events will be an integral part of our
publication and long-tail sales plans. TIMELY AND NEWSWORTHY: More than ten years ago
McGonigal ran simulations that predicted a global pandemic and how it would change human
behavior. IMAGINABLE is a big idea book for this moment teaching readers how to think like a
futurist and prepare for a future that is just ten years away. IMAGINATION TRAINING: McGonigal
has created fun provocative exercises for each chapter of the book based on gaming principles
that train our brains to think differently to solve problems creatively and to engage a sense
of agency. WIDE APPLICATION: From Silicon Valley C-Suite executives to educators from
politicians to activists from innovators to survivalists—McGonigal not unlike Gladwell and
Kahnemann will capture a wide array of readers. URGENT OPTIMISM: This inspiring concept—a
resource within each of us that McGonigal teaches us how to access—is poised to enter the
vernacular. GAMING AS A SELF-HELP TOOL: McGonigal is best known as the inventor and co-founder
of SuperBetter a game that has helped more than a million players tackle real-life health
challenges such as depression anxiety chronic pain and traumatic brain injury her research
on how gaming can alleviate these ailments has been funded by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). IMAGINABLE THE COURSE: McGonigal is creating a complementary curriculum for Coursera
based on the book. PARTNERS: McGonigal has created award-winning games for partners including
the American Heart Association the International Olympics Committee the World Bank Institute
and the New York Public Library and has consulted and developed game workshops for companies
including Intel Nike Disney McDonalds Microsoft and Nintendo. PROFILE: McGonigal was named
a Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum one of Fast Company’s Top 100 Creative
People in Business ” one of the 20 Most Inspiring Women in the World” by Oprah Winfrey in O
Magazine one of the Top 35 innovators changing the world through technology” by MIT Technology
Review and has received many other honors. WIDELY PUBLISHED: Her work has been featured in The
New York Times Wired Vanity Fair The New Yorker O Magazine Fast Company The Economist
and on MTV CNN and NPR.
