Hugh Kearns

I work with some of the brightest people in the world to help them find ways to be even more effective and productive. I take the latest research in psychology and apply it to high achievers such as researchers and research students, professors, doctors and other professionals.

My expertise is in the psychology of self-management. And I am particularly interested in why people don't manage themselves, for example overcommitment, perfectionism, distraction and procrastination. For the past 20 years I have researched these self-sabotaging behaviours and strategies for overcoming them. I am particularly interested in a concept called the impostor syndrome and why successful people often feel like frauds.

I regularly lecture at leading universities all over the world including Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford. I've written 12 books on these topics, had several articles published in the journal Nature and regularly contribute to the national and international media and social networks.