Isabela Granic Email & Phone Number

I’m a researcher, teacher, facilitator, and author working across sectors to help build new hybrid environments that promote human flourishing at work and in learning organizations. I apply developmental science principles and practices to all my transdisciplinary collaborations. I work with a range of organizations, pulling together expertise across disciplines to create technologies and social infrastructures that elevate human potential, promote psychological and social health, and prevent burnout, anxiety, and depression. After more than 25 years conducting research on the best digital and face-to-face approaches for promoting emotional and mental health in young people, I left my tenured, full professor position in academia to broaden and amp up my real-world impact. Currently:• I spend about half of my time as a scientist and researcher at McMaster University and I'm Director for the Games for Emotional and Mental Health (GEMH) Lab. The lab builds and empirically tests digital games and apps based on solid behavioural science and combines data-driven design with stunning art to promote emotional flourishing. • The other half of my efforts are dedicated to transformative collaborations with leaders in the education and corporate spaces. I run workshops, courses, and culture-change curricula that provide hybrid solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face in the digital age. I focus on finding tailored strategies for combining digital and face-to-face energy so that organizations can go beyond productivity and achievement statistics and maximize psychological thriving, mental health, and social connection. • Finally, along with fierce and brilliant collaborators, I'm building Liminal Learning, a collective learning and development program to launch teens into purpose-driven adulthood with like-minded cross-generational souls with skin in the game: https://liminal-learning.com/ For a list of my publications and media contacts, please see: https://gemhlab.com/researcher/isabelagranicFor my research lab’s publications, research projects, evidence-based games, and videos that explain our mission in its various manifestations, see: www.gemhlab.comI’m also Chief Science Officer of The PlayNice Institute, an organization that seeks to build and distribute evidence-based games that promote emotional health and well-being for children and youth; for more information, see: https://www.theplayniceinstitute.com/

Listed skills include Research, Research Design, Psychology, Statistics, and 11 others.

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  University Of Toronto

  Developmental Psychology