Todd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he leads theLaboratory 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.
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.
