Becoming Your Best Self

L to R: Mike O’Neil, Beacon Chief Administrative Officer; Debbie Raybold, Director, Memorial BrainWorks; Steve Eller, Beacon Chief Human Resource Officer; Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.

More than 800 people packed the Hilton Garden Inn to hear Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct and The Neuroscience of Change. Memorial BrainWorks presented the Mary Morris Leighton Lecture “Becoming Your Best Self: The New Science of Stress and Willpower.” Thank you to the Leighton- Oare Foundation for funding the lecture series. Kelly shared insights about the latest research on motivation, temptation and procrastination, and turning them into easy-to-use ideas to transform habits, persevere at challenges and make successful changes.