Todd Rose
Todd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. The Lab's flagship project is the Individual Mastery Project, also at the Harvard School of Education, a long-term study investigating the development of individual excellence and expertise. He is also the co-founder of The Center for Individual Opportunity, a non-profit organization that promotes the principles of individuality in work, school, and society. He is the author of The End of Average.
Toss Rose's speeches focus on improving the quality of the current education system. Rose co-founded Project Variability, an organization that seeks to dispel "the myth of average" that the system is built upon in favor of a more individualized approach. The project aims to integrate this individual science into all aspects of the education system and workforce to increase growth and opportunity. Rose currently serves as the organizations president.
Todd was born and raised in northern Utah. After dropping out of high school, he obtained his GED and started attending night classes at a local college. He eventually received his Doctorate in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His talks have been featured at TedX, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the Harvard Ed '8 for 8.' He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Todd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. The Lab's flagship project is the Individual Mastery Project, also at the Harvard School of Education, a long-term study investigating the development of individual excellence and expertise. He is also the co-founder of The Center for Individual Opportunity, a non-profit organization that promotes the principles of individuality in work, school, and society. He is the author of The End of Average.
Toss Rose's speeches focus on improving the quality of the current education system. Rose co-founded Project Variability, an organization that seeks to dispel "the myth of average" that the system is built upon in favor of a more individualized approach. The project aims to integrate this individual science into all aspects of the education system and workforce to increase growth and opportunity. Rose currently serves as the organizations president.
Todd was born and raised in northern Utah. After dropping out of high school, he obtained his GED and started attending night classes at a local college. He eventually received his Doctorate in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His talks have been featured at TedX, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the Harvard Ed '8 for 8.' He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
