Stephen M. Kosslyn

Stephen M. Kosslyn is the Founder and President of Active Learning Sciences, Inc. Prior to that, he was Founder, President and Chief Academic Officer of Foundry Collge, after having been Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva University. He previously served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University after having been chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, and the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was also co-director of the Mind of the Market Lab at Harvard Business School and a member of the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in psychology. Kosslyn’s research has focused on the science of learning, the nature of visual cognition, and visual communication. He has authored or coauthored 15 books and over 350 papers on these topics. Kosslyn has received numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three honorary Doctorates (University of Caen, University of Paris Descartes, Bern University), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.