Nir  Eyal

Nir Eyal

Author & Investor

Nir Eyal

Author & Investor

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Biography

Nir Eyal is a globally recognized authority on behavior change and human potential. His frameworks have empowered millions to build better habits, enhance focus, and unlock greater agency in their lives and work. A former lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, Nir has collaborated with leaders and organizations worldwide to boost performance through behavior design.

He is the New York Times bestselling author of the international bestsellers Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which have sold over one million copies in more than 30 languages. Hooked was a finalist for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards. Indistractable won the 2019 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award and was named one of the Best Business & Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon, Audible, and The Globe and Mail. His third book, Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results, became an instant New York Times best-seller and reveals how to identify and replace the hidden beliefs that define our limits.

As a seasoned entrepreneur and angel investor, Nir has backed multi-billion-dollar companies, including Canva, Kahoot!, and others. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, his writing has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and Psychology Today. For over 25 years, he has worked alongside his wife and business partner, Julie Li.

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Beyond Belief: The Hidden Limits on Performance

Leaders often sense a gap between what their organizations should be capable of and what actually happens when the stakes rise. They see it when teams hesitate where conviction is required, when progress slows at the first sign of uncertainty, or when capable people retreat under pressure.

Even with a clear strategy and strong execution systems in place, performance plateaus in ways that are difficult to explain.

In this keynote, Nir Eyal surfaces a less visible constraint beneath execution: the beliefs people hold about effort, risk, failure, and identity. These beliefs shape what leaders notice, what teams anticipate, and what people persist through or abandon. When belief, attention, and behavior align, execution becomes reliable.

Leaders leave with a clear framework to identify the belief bottlenecks that limit follow-through, reduce distraction-driven drift, and build higher agency where it matters most.

The Indistractable Workplace: Designing Environments That Drive Execution

Execution slows when attention fragments.

In this session, Nir examines how reactive environments, competing priorities, and unexamined internal triggers undermine strategic focus. Drawing on psychology and behavioral science from his bestselling book, Indistractable, he shows how modern work environments systematically fragment attention, despite clear priorities and capable teams.

The session shifts the conversation from individual discipline to organizational design, clarifying how leaders shape attention systems that enable reliable execution at scale.

Hooked: How to Design Habit-Forming Products

Most products fail not because they lack features, funding, or talent. They fail because customers don’t return.

In this keynote, Nir Eyal examines why certain products become part of customers’ everyday lives while others are quickly abandoned. Drawing on behavioral science and case studies from his bestselling book, Hooked, he shows how successful companies design products that earn repeated use—ethically and intentionally.

Rather than treating engagement as a marketing or growth tactic, the session reframes it as a product and business design challenge. Leaders gain a shared language for understanding adoption and retention, and for making better decisions about what actually drives long-term customer behavior.

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