A truer story
Audiences see why the bleakest claims about human nature are not as settled as we were taught.
HOPEFUL HUMANITY SERIES
Leave the room more hopeful about being human.
Marc Rogatschnig dismantles the famous psychological myths that shaped how we lead — and replaces them with an evidence-based account of courage, character and choice.
THE FLAGSHIP KEYNOTE
Hopeful Humanity
For fifty years, psychology's most famous studies told us that ordinary people become cruel, apathetic or blindly obedient under pressure. Organisations built management systems on that story. But the story was never settled — and much of it was not true.
With rigorous research and vivid storytelling, Marc revisits four cultural touchstones and reveals what really happened. The result is not wishful optimism, but a more accurate and hopeful understanding of what people are capable of.
The stories we revisit
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Milgram's obedience studies
- The 38 witnesses to Kitty Genovese
- The real-life Lord of the Flies
“Character strength is the capacity to feel the impulse, the need, the drive, the want — and to pause. And in that pause, to make a choice that is good for you, and good for the people around you.”
A practical pause
They learn to recognise the space between impulse and action, especially when pressure is high.
A choice they can use
They leave with a grounded way to respond as the person and leader they want to be.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Marc Rogatschnig
PhD, Psychology · Character Strength Researcher · Principal, Tidal Consulting
Marc brings his research into rooms across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Every talk replaces a false, corrosive story about human nature with a true and hopeful one — and gives people a better story to lead, work and live from.
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