Mark Brackett, PhD, is the author of Permission to Feel, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Brackett has published 125 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than two thousand schools, pre-K through high school, across the United States and in other countries. Brackett has received numerous awards and is on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He is co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a digital emotional intelligence learning system for businesses. Brackett also consults regularly with corporations like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google on integrating emotional intelligence principles into employee training and product design.