Dan
Hill, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, Inc., which
pioneered the use of facial coding in business beginning in 1998. As an expert
facial coder, Dan is the recipient of seven U.S. patents related to advanced
methods for the scoring and analysis of facial coding data. He’s also a
certified Facial Action Coding System (FACS) practitioner. Dan has done
consulting work for over half of the world’s top 100 B2C companies. Among his
five previous books is Emotionomics, chosen by Advertising
Age as one of the top 10 must-read
books of 2009. His newest, major forthcoming book is Famous Faces Decoded: A
Guidebook for Reading Others.
Dan’s
TV appearances have ranged from ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Al Jazeera,
Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC’s “The Today Show,” and PBS, to
The Tennis Channel. For radio, Dan has been interviewed by the BBC and NPR’s
“Marketplace”. Print and digital coverage of Dan’s work has included: Admap, Advertising Age, Adweek, Allure, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, The Financial Times, Inc., Forbes China, Kiplinger’s, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Politico, Time, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, in addition to his having been a
columnist for Reuters. His essays were noted with commendation in the 1989,
1991 and 1994 editions of The Best American Essays.
Since
his education at St. Olaf College, Oxford University, Brown University, and
Rutgers University, Dan has given speeches and led workshops in over 20
countries. Along with his wife, Karen Bernthal, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota
and Palm Desert, California.
