Catherine Price

We often think of fun as frivolous. But according to CATHERINE PRICE, science journalist, Screen/Life Balance founder, and author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again and How to Break Up with Your Phone, “True Fun” — which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow — is essential for a well-lived and joyful life.

Audiences leave Price’s presentation—which can be delivered as a keynote, chat, or moderated Q&A, and is relevant for a wide range of audiences — feeling both inspired to make a change, and equipped with tangible things they can do that very day to increase their happiness and feel more alive. Groundbreaking, eye-opening, and packed with useful advice, Price’s presentation won’t just change the way your audience thinks about fun. It will bring them back to life.

Past audiences have included companies and organizations in finance, technology, internet security, education, government, real estate, school commencements, healthcare, entertainment, HR, publishing, travel, and health and wellness, among other fields.

Watch Catherine Price’s viral TED Talk here >>

Want to take The Power of Fun to the next level? CATHERINE PRICE also offers a hands-on 90-minute “Funtervention” workshop, available both in-person and virtually.

The Funtervention workshop, perfect for off-sites and team-building events, offers participants the chance to “find their fun” themselves. Instead of simply telling participants what she believes fun is, Price will guide them through a personal process of discovery, via small group/partner discussion and a customized printable workbook that she created specifically for the Funtervention workshops.

Not only will participants leave with a new general definition of fun, but they will better understand what generates fun for them personally, and feel more connected with their colleagues and other attendees in a way that can spark more collaboration and engagement during—and after—the conference. They will leave feeling engaged, inspired, and energized, with a personalized, practical plan in hand for how they will begin to prioritize and build more fun into their own lives, at home, at work, and beyond.

Sample audience feedback:

• "Magnificent"
• "I loved your session!"
• "Thank you very much for teaching me how to incorporate more fun into my life!”

Note: this workshop can also be coupled with access to Catherine’s text-message-based “Find Your Fun” course (which participants can take individually or as a group) as a way to team-build and further put their insights from the workshop into practice.

The idea of prioritizing fun at work might seem counterintuitive—perhaps even counterproductive.

But according to CATHERINE PRICE, science journalist, ScreenLifeBalance.com founder, and author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again and How to Break Up with Your Phone, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead, she argues that “True Fun” (which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow) can be a powerful tool that increases connection, creativity, productivity, collaboration, engagement, and happiness in the workplace — and beyond.

Audiences leave Price’s presentation—which can be delivered as a keynote, chat, workshop, or moderated Q&A — feeling both inspired to make a change, and equipped with tangible things they can do that very day to increase the amount of true fun that they and their colleagues and employees experience in their workplace. Groundbreaking, eye-opening, and packed with concrete examples and useful advice, Price’s presentation will revolutionize the way that audiences think about fun at work.

This presentation is appropriate for a wide variety of industries and organizations, including finance, technology, internet security, education, government, real estate, healthcare, entertainment, HR, publishing, travel, and health and wellness, among other fields.

CATHERINE PRICE, founder of Screen/Life Balance and author of the bestsellers How to Break Up With Your Phone and The Power of Fun, offers a customizable presentation — delivered as a talk or informal chat, either in-person or virtually — on how “breaking up” with your phone and prioritizing screen/life balance can help you lead a happier, healthier life.

A leading voice in the conversation about digital devices, Price has spoken about screen/life balance and phone breakups in front of audiences including Fortune Brainstorm Health, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, T. Rowe Price, Warburg Pincus, Yale University, ISC(2), Colorado Academy, Livongo Health, Mayfield Fund, and Endeavor, among many others, and her work has been featured in countless podcasts, television shows, and newspaper and magazine articles, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and the podcast of the Surgeon General of the United States.

After revealing why screen/life balance can be so challenging to achieve (especially now!), Price explains how audiences can create more balanced and intentional relationships with their phones and devices—and how doing so will improve their resilience, relationships, attention spans, creativity, productivity, and mental and physical health. This program combines a lively, compelling keynote with actionable, evidence-backed suggestions that people can begin to put into practice that very day.

Sample feedback:

“Catherine’s session on digital detox and emotional wellbeing was incredibly insightful and well received by attendees.” - Hyatt

"We can’t thank Catherine enough for her amazing insight on living a more intentionally mindful life by 'breaking up with our phones' and finding the silly joys in everyday life. We’ve already gotten a ton of requests for a replay of the event and some amazing input from audience members.” - Intel

"Catherine is a dynamic and engaging speaker who is able to connect with and inspire audience members from a broad range of backgrounds. She weaves together science, personal anecdotes, practical advice, and humor in a way that makes the subject matter approachable and actionable. Her virtual sessions have been among the best attended and most popular talks in our series, and people are still approaching me months later to thank me for bringing her to speak at our institution.” - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Watch Price’s keynote for Fortune Brainstorm Health HERE >>

Read Kevin Roose’s Viral New York Times article about Catherine and her work HERE >>

Listen to Price’s interview with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy HERE >>

Listen to Price’s interview with Jon Favreau on Offline HERE >>

As the founder of Screen/Life Balance and the author of How to Break Up with Your Phone—and a parent herself—CATHERINE PRICEis a leading voice in the conversation about digital devices. Price has been working closely with expert Jon Haidt, appearing in his newsletter, After Babel, and receiving his public endorsement: “She gave one of the best talks I’ve seen on the problem of the phone-based childhood… It’s a talk that every parent should watch.”

She has spoken about screen/life balance and how to create healthy relationships with technology for organizations including Fortune Brainstorm Health, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale University, ISC(2), The Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Colorado Academy, Livongo Health, Credible Behavioral Health, Clementine Montessori, Flintridge Prep, the International School of Denver, and The Philadelphia School, among many other organizations and schools, and her work on screen/life balance has been featured in countless podcasts, television shows, and newspaper and magazine articles, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and the podcast of the Surgeon General of the United States.

In her customizable presentation, which can be designed for parents, students, and/or teachers and school administrators, Price presents both a scientific and moral argument for delaying the age at which children are given access to smartphones and social media (and banning them in schools), and explores the positive cognitive and developmental impacts of limiting children’s screen time, both at school and at home—which include improvements in resilience, relationships, attention spans, creativity, productivity, and mental and physical health.

In addition to presenting an overview of the research on children and devices, Price focuses on the opportunity cost of allowing our children’s time to become consumed by screens. She highlights some emerging areas of concern, and — most importantly — provides concrete suggestions and resources that parents and schools can start using that very day. 

Evidence-backed and thoroughly researched, Price’s presentation offers parents and schools a straightforward, practical plan for how they can tackle the thorny issue of kids and phones, and join forces to create a cultural shift. Audiences will leave Price’s talk feeling inspired—and empowered.

Watch Price’s keynote for Fortune Brainstorm Health HERE >>

Read Kevin Roose’s Viral New York Times article about Catherine and her work HERE >>

Listen to Price’s interview with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy HERE >>

Listen to Price’s interview with Jon Favreau on Offline HERE >>

Do you and your colleagues feel burned out from being constantly “on-call” to technology — but not know how to stop? In this hands-on version of CATHERINE PRICE’s presentation, offered either in-person or virtually, attendees will learn how their interactions with screens and devices are affecting them (and why it’s so hard to achieve a healthy balance) and will take the first steps toward creating new, healthier relationships with technology in both their personal and professional lives.

Working individually and collaboratively, participants will begin by exploring their own priorities and what role they want technology to play in their lives (this big-picture view is one of the features that makes Catherine’s approach unique). Then, working both individually and collaboratively, with Catherine as their guide, they will make a concrete plan—and even take the first steps—in creating a new relationship with technology, over which they have control.

Participants will leave feeling energized and inspired—and with a concrete plan.

(Note: this workshop can be coupled with access to Catherine’s text-message-based 30-day “Phone Breakup” course, which participants can take individually or as a team, as a way to team build and put the skills and philosophies of the workshop into practice for the long run.)

Feedback on Catherine’s “How to Break Up With Your Phone” program:

“I still use my phone, of course, but having a saner relationship with my device has freed up time for a much richer relationship with my family.” — Dan Harris, former anchor for Good Morning America and host of the 10 Percent Happier podcast

“Catherine Price is the Marie Kondo of brains. . . . [F]or the first time in a long time, I’m starting to feel like a human again.” — Kevin Roose, tech reporter, The New York Times

"I think it’s so important during this time to re-focus my energy away from my smartphone, set reasonable boundaries and mindfully enjoy the world around me. If you feel the same, [Catherine’s] book may help.” — Halle Berry

“In How to Break up with Your Phone, Catherine Price has written the essential guide for taking control of our lives. . . . Price has established herself as one of the leading writers and speakers on this vital conversation.” — Arianna Huffington