Kurt MacDonald

Kurt MacDonald is an award-winning teacher and experienced content creator. Kurt’s graduate degree in Behavioral Neuroscience provides insight into the psychological and physiological processes that underlie perception, stress, and information transfer. He utilizes his understanding of human attention, memory, and persuasion to design content that is effective and engaging. Kurt also has a long history of public speaking, spanning 25 years of his academic and professional career. You can watch his TEDx talk on finding opportunity in chaos, here, and his Creative Mornings talk on the importance of context here. He also delivered the Most Outstanding Graduate address at the University of Colorado, Boulder, was a commencement speaker at Kent Denver School, was a mainstage presenter at Scholar Search Conference, was an invited speaker at the Summit Advocates for Gifted Education, and presented at IgniteSTEM Columbia. Kurt currently lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife, two daughters, and their adopted greyhound.