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Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

with Supercommunicator Charles Duhigg

2025-11-18 14:00:00 2025-11-18 15:00:00 America/New_York Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Charles Duhigg presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his book Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. Virtual - Virtual

Tuesday, November 18
2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Charles Duhigg presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his book Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.

Get yourself primed for the holiday season and join us for an online conversation you won't want to miss! Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his latest work, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. 

In this groundbreaking book, Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine skeptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.

Register now to take part in the online discussion, learn how to enhance your everyday conversations, and add a new title to the holiday wishlist!


About the Author: Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of Supercommunicators, The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, and was the founding host of the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.

This program is sponsored by the Alexandria Library Foundation.

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