Tina Seelig is an educator, entrepreneur, and bestselling author who has spent decades teaching creativity, innovation, and leadership at Stanford. She is the executive director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars – the largest endowed fellowship program in the world, which cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students from across the university – and director emerita of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, where she served as executive director, faculty director, and professor of the practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

Seelig has written 17 books, including What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (HarperCollins, 2009), inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity (HarperCollins, 2012), and Creativity Rules (HarperCollins, 2017). Through her teaching, writing, and educational games for children,, she has inspired countless students and entrepreneurs to turn ideas into impact.

Seelig has received the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the SVForum  Visionary Award, the National Olympus Innovation Award, the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Legacy Award, and the Stanford Alumni Association's Richard W. Lyman Award. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the Stanford School of Medicine in 1985.

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