Annie Duke: Decision Strategist
Decision-making keynote speaker, bestselling author, and decision science expert Annie Duke helps leaders make smarter choices, manage uncertainty, and know when to quit.
Quick Facts:
- Internationally recognized expert in decision-making under uncertainty
- Bestselling author of Thinking in Bets and Quit
- Former professional poker champion with more than $4 million in tournament winnings
- Winner of a World Series of Poker bracelet
- Formats:
- Keynote Speaker | Decision Science Expert
- Audiences:
- Executives, entrepreneurs, investors, sales leaders, business professionals, educators, leadership teams, and organizations navigating uncertainty and complex decisions.
- Outcomes:
- Improve decision-making quality in uncertain and rapidly changing environments.
- Learn frameworks for evaluating risk, opportunity, and strategic trade-offs.
- Understand when persistence creates value and when quitting is the better choice.
- Travels from: Philadelphia, PA
- **US Fee range: $50,001 - $75,000
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Talent Short Bio
Annie Duke is a leading authority on decision-making, uncertainty, risk assessment, and strategic thinking. A bestselling author, keynote speaker, consultant, and decision science expert, Annie helps leaders, organizations, and individuals improve the quality of their decisions in situations where outcomes are unpredictable and information is incomplete.
A former professional poker champion with more than $4 million in tournament winnings, Annie built her career mastering decision-making under pressure. She is the only woman to have won both the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship, experiences that continue to inform her unique approach to navigating risk and uncertainty.
Before her poker career, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, she combines insights from psychology, behavioral science, and real-world decision-making to help audiences develop better judgment and improve outcomes.
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