Dr Aaron Balick
Explore digital wellbeing and communication with Aaron Balick, speaker, digital psychology expert. Aaron works with organisations to navigate technology's impact on human behaviour and relationships, delivering evidence-based strategies featured in Wired, Newsweek and The Guardian.
London, United Kingdom
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Author of "The Psychodynamics of Social Networking" and "The Little Book of Calm," Aaron has been featured in Wired Magazine, Newsweek, and The Guardian. He serves as an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Essex, solidifying his position at the forefront of digital psychology.
Aaron helps businesses understand how technology shapes human relationships and decision-making. He translates complex psychological concepts into practical strategies, enabling organisations to create healthier digital environments, improve employee wellbeing, and develop more effective communication approaches in our increasingly online world.
Audiences gain concrete tools for managing digital overwhelm, strategies for building authentic connections in virtual spaces, and frameworks for making technology choices that enhance rather than diminish human potential.
Book Aaron to transform your organisation's relationship with technology through evidence-based psychological insights that drive meaningful change.
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Aaron Balick literally wrote the book on the psychology of social media - in fact the first book to apply psychodynamic thinking to this important phenomena. Navigating the world of social media and other technologies, from smartphones to AI, can be a challenge. From online dating to business communication technologies, we all need to better understand the nature of our reliance on technology and the consequences it has on our lives. Aaron draws on his deep understanding of the psychology of technology to enable us to make better choices about how we engage with it personally, as well as how businesses can integrate technology more humanely within the workplace.
Drawing on research and practices from emotional intelligence, mindfulness, positive psychology, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychology, Aaron Balick offers direct insights and practices into how leaders, managers, and teams can better work together in creating psychologically safe, emotionally intelligent, flourishingly productive, and creative workplaces.
Incorporating the importance of individual differences and knowing that there is no "one size fits all" approach to human flourishing, Aaron Balick has developed an inclusive psychological model that accepts the complexity within us all. Before we can lead others, we must learn to lead and trust ourselves. We can do this by identifying our own conflicting needs and developing an "internal leader" to guide us in the direction that best suits us and those around us.
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