Bio

Michael Kim is the first and only clinical scientist to be awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health innovation research grant in the field of habits ($2 million). He is the founder and international authority of Habit Design, a breakthrough cognitive behavioral discipline that accelerates habit formation ten times faster than the best, previously published, clinical standard, developed with licensed, certified, and peer-reviewed clinical psychologists from Harvard, Yale, Stanford Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Washington. Michael has been called “a leading authority in how organizations create sustainable behavior change” by The New York Times bestselling change management author Jim Collins (''Built to Last'', ''Good to Great'' et al.). He is the recipient of the ABAI B.F. Skinner Award for Organizational Behavior Management, TEDMED “Innovators to Watch”, Seoul Digital Forum “Top 20 Global Innovators” and has taught at Harvard, USC, MIT, and Stanford Medical School, where he taught the most popular behavior change class in Stanford's history to over 8,000 students. He has been also featured by TED, The New York Times, The White House, The World Bank, McKinsey & Company, Fast Company, CNN, Harvard Business School, Bloomberg TV, MIT Technology Review, IDEO, et al. As a Harvard and Yale-trained research scientist, Kim's research was integral to the scholarship of Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, the founder of ''disruptive innovation'' theory and author of ''The Innovator's Dilemma''. His clients have included senior executives from Google, Harvard, The World Bank & International Monetary Fund, United Healthcare, Apple, Facebook, Kaiser Permanente, Nike, WebMD, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, AT&T, and many others. Previously, he served as Microsoft's first Managing Director of New Consumer Products, hired by CEO, Satya Nadella, as his first direct report. During his tenure at Harvard, he served as science policy advisor to the Office of the President of the United States and to the former Chief Scientist of IBM. He has served on several corporate boards including the MIT Media Lab and Seafair, where he also served as Chairman. Michael holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Yale and Harvard and was awarded post-graduate fellowships from the CORO Foundation and IRTS Foundation.