Lisa Kramer

Lisa Kramer

PhD

ON, CANADA

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Expert in Behavioural Finance and Neuroeconomics

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Stirring up controversy in financial circles for over a decade with her seminal contributions bridging the gap between rational finance and behavioral finance, Dr. Lisa Kramer is no stranger to the dynamic marketplace of ideas. An expert on behavioral finance, investments, capital market seasonality, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and personal finance, Dr. Kramer captivates audiences with her real-time demonstrations of human biases. Participants come away with a deeper understanding of recent, state-of-the-art developments in the exciting field of behavioral finance.

Dr. Kramer's research has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, MONEY, US News and World Reports, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, Business Week, Fast Company, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and on CBC Television and Radio.

She received her PhD in finance from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and is Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto. She has also held the Canadian Securities Institute Research Foundation Term Professorship, and spent a sabbatical as a visiting scholar in the Psychology Department at Stanford University.

More about Dr. Kramer's keynote speaker experience:

Lisa Kramer routinely speaks to groups of industry professionals and general members of the public on a variety of topics, including investor behaviour, neuroeconomics, and capital market seasonality. Her real-time demonstrations of investor behavioural biases leave audience members with lasting memories. Past audiences have included industry associations, wealth management firms, banking institutions, government organizations, and non-profit educational groups.

Stirring up controversy in financial circles for over a decade with her seminal contributions bridging the gap between rational finance and behavioral finance, Dr. Lisa Kramer is no stranger to the dynamic marketplace of ideas. An expert on behavioral finance, investments, capital market seasonality, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and personal finance, Dr. Kramer captivates audiences with her real-time demonstrations of human biases. Participants come away with a deeper understanding of recent, state-of-the-art developments in the exciting field of behavioral finance.

Dr. Kramer's research has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, MONEY, US News and World Reports, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, Business Week, Fast Company, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and on CBC Television and Radio.

She received her PhD in finance from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and is Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto. She has also held the Canadian Securities Institute Research Foundation Term Professorship, and spent a sabbatical as a visiting scholar in the Psychology Department at Stanford University.

More about Dr. Kramer's keynote speaker experience:

Lisa Kramer routinely speaks to groups of industry professionals and general members of the public on a variety of topics, including investor behaviour, neuroeconomics, and capital market seasonality. Her real-time demonstrations of investor behavioural biases leave audience members with lasting memories. Past audiences have included industry associations, wealth management firms, banking institutions, government organizations, and non-profit educational groups.

Mind Over Money

Lisa provides a captivating introduction to key concepts from the field of behavioural finance. Traditional economics is based on strong assumptions that market participants are fully rational. In this discussion, we consider an alternative view: that humans are prone to behavioural biases and these affect financial decisions in concrete ways. Many interactive and humorous examples are provided, and almost anything can happen. In any given presentation, randomly chosen audience members may be...
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This is Your Brain on Finance

Lisa draws on her experiences as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University to highlight the exciting new field of neurofinance, which is a blend of neuroscientific analysis and behavioural finance. In this entertaining discussion, she highlights some of the surprising and interesting results that have emerged very recently from studies that use medical brain scanning technology to study financial decision making. What parts of the brain are involved in taking risks versus avoiding risks? Can...
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Behavioral Finance: What's Next?

Take an educational and entertaining ride through the lessons of behavioural finance, from its earliest beginnings (entire decades ago!) through to a crystal-ball glance at what the future holds. Topics include anchoring, loss aversion, emotions, social finance, choice architecture, neuroeconomics, and genetics. Suitable for diverse audiences.
Audience ActivityTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

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Lisa is also willing to customize content to suit your audience's needs.
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Conference Board of Canada

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C.B.O.C., Conference Board of Canada

Lisa Kramer's presentation at a recent pension conference was one of the highlights of the year. Her research provides many fascinating and surprising insights that are sure to generate plenty of interesting discussion and her presentation style is clear and engaging. I wouldn't hesitate to include her again in this event.

Financial Standards Planning Council

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F.S.P.C., Financial Standards Planning Council

3 Thank you again for your very strong contribution to FPSC's first Professional Development Day. I must tell you that your session and the event overall were rated very highly by our audience. I truly appreciate the effort that went into your presentation; you did an excellent job in meeting the objective for the session in a fun and engaging way….a number of the audience members referred to it and its importance for financial planning professionals at yesterday's Symposium. Again, a sincere thanks!

Intelescope Solutions

On-Site

I.S., Intelescope Solutions

Lisa Kramer's presentation at the annual Rotman Life Long Learning conference compelled me to question my most basic assumptions on how humans are motivated in competitive situations. Her research is refreshingly original and stimulated an excited response from attendees.

Financial Services Research and Consulting, TransUnion

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M.K., Vice President, Financial Services Research and Consulting, TransUnion

We greatly appreciated your closing keynote to our 11th annual Financial Services Summit. Being able to weave in Behavioral Economics and the impacts consumer decision making have for the lending community fit squarely into our theme, "Redefining Ourselves as Lenders". The insights you brought to our Summit were impactful and greatly appreciated by our attendees. Again, thank you for helping make our Summit a success!