Dan Lyons
Speaker @Brightsight Speakers
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WORK HISTORY
Speaker @Brightsight Speakers
I\'ve been a keynote speaker at SXSW, DLD, CeBIT, the European Central Bank, the Royal Society of the Arts, and given presentations at Google, Microsoft, and countless company events and conferences. My favorite topics are workplace culture and the power of listening in your personal and professional life.
EDUCATION
University of Michigan
MFA
Bradford College
BA, Liberal Arts, Literature
SKILLS
ABOUT DAN LYONS
NY Times best-selling author. April 2023 TIME magazine cover & CBS Sunday Morning appearance. Screenwriter and producer: HBO\'s \"Silicon Valley.\" Journalist: Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes. Punditry: BBC, CNBC. Books: 20+ languages. Author of \"Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble,\" which the Los Angeles Times called \"the best book about Silicon Valley today.\" On interpersonal communication and the power of listening:\"STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World.\" On work culture:\"Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us.” Creator of Fake Steve Jobs, and \"The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,\" a satirical blog with 1.6m monthly readers. The blog led to a book,\"Options: The Secret Life of Fake Steve Jobs,\" which led to a TV deal, which led to me being dubbed \"the Mark Twain of Silicon Valley.\" Newsweek raved:\"In the establishment-skewering tradition of Voltaire, Cervantes, and Jonathan Swift, we now have a voice for our own digital age.\" Speaking: I have given keynote speeches at the European Central Bank, the National Society of Arts (NSA) in London, CeBIT, SXSW and others. I\'ve given talks at Google, Microsoft, and countless keynotes at corporate events and conferences.\"Dan is *the* expert on the culture of work, and how it\'s changing businesses and lives.\"—Dave Ramsay, president of the Ramsay Talks speaker series, Toronto.I\'ve also published two works of fiction:\"The Last Good Man,\" an award-winning short story collection, parts of which are included in literary anthologies, and \"Dog Days,\" a novel.
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