Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Centre at Yale University and the author of Permission to Feel. Marc has published 175 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health and performance. He has received numerous awards and is on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Marc also consults regularly with corporations like Microsoft and Google on integrating emotional intelligence principles into employee training and product design.