Ronald Gross

Ronald Gross is an author and speaker who co-chairs the University Seminar on Innovation at Columbia University and founded Conversations New York, a program of free public community-based conversations. He has devoted his career to advancing lifelong learning through teaching, publishing, consulting, and professional speaking, with notable books including Peak Learning, Socrates' Way, and The Independent Scholar's Handbook. Gross has been producing works on radical school reform since the 1960s and continues to present programs on thinking, creativity, and learning to international audiences.