Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is director of games research at the Institute for the Future. She is the inventor of SuperBetter, which has helped over a million players recover from symptoms of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury. Specializing in alternate reality games that tackle real-world problems, McGonigal has created games for the American Heart Association and World Bank Institute and developed game workshops for large companies. She teaches the How to Think Like a Futurist class for the Continuing Studies program at Stanford University. McGonigal is the author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. Her TED talks on how games can make a better world have more than 15 million views.