Tiffany Shlain Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, and author

Tiffany always kills it but this year at Chicago Ideas Week she blew the audience away by performing her latest film, 30,000 Days, live onstage. The performance is a powerful and edgy examination of individual purpose in the context of the collective good.”

 — Chicago Ideas Festival

Tiffany’s keynote address at The Women of Vision gala was the highest rated speakers we have ever had!”

— The Anita Borg Institute

Tiffany Shlain demonstrates, with lyrical simplicity, our interdependence on one another and the interconnectedness of humanity with all life on earth. With a tightly synchronized dance between her powerful images and insightful words — with humor, and with a creativity all her own, Tiffany illuminates the issues that affect us all — including environmental degradation, dizzying technological innovation and population growth — and helps us to understand our inter-relationship with the world in a way that is both freeing and inspiring.”

— Former Vice President Al Gore

Director Tiffany Shlain delivered what was, improbably, both the most thought-provoking and the most personally emotional documentary of the whole festival. It will change your thinking, and what more can a documentary do?”

— Michael Dunaway, Paste Magazine

Indeed, Shlain’s film does go wide — it’s like a rubber band stretching in multiple directions while not breaking. Examining the ways in which technology can productively unite our global citizenry, her work details nothing less than the history of consciousness and its arrival within today’s always-on, hyper-wired mind.”

— Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine

A highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed.”

— James Greenberg, The Hollywood Reporter

We were absolutely thrilled with Tiffany’s presentation! We’ve heard it was the best luncheon speaker ever.”

— Amy Vogel, Princeton Jewish Federation

Put down your phone and pick up this book. I read it in one day, convinced that 24/6 is timeless and timely wisdom. Tiffany Shlain is a modern-day prophet, brilliant and incredibly funny in equal measure.”

— Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit

Here is the answer to the greatest collective and personal challenge of our time: reclaiming the essential dignity of being human in a digital age.”

— Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human and Present Shock  

A wonderfully refreshing and practical roadmap to both slowing down time and having more of it.”

 — Krista Tippett, host of On Being and bestselling author of Becoming Wise

An unusual and essential guide. Here is a place to turn if you feel there’s something missing in our modern world.”

— Jaron Lanier, bestselling author of Dawn of the New Everything and You Are Not a Gadget

Well-written and well-reasoned. Shlain offers families excellent ideas for taming digital monsters. I recommend it to all parents who have struggled to set limits on screen time.”

— Mary Pipher, author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia

Tiffany Shlain is a 21st Century Marshall McLuhan, reminding us that having the best of both worlds is not getting consumed by one.”

— Jean Rogers, Author of Kids Under Fire

…Shlain delivers a moving family story, documenting the connections that make the need for the Shabbat important in the first place.”   

 — Sherry Turkle, Author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together

. . . She convinced me . . . that a day of disconnection is a path towards reconnection to the rest of our lives.”

 — Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google and co-founder of the Internet Society.