01Leadership
Leadership by Example
The ten key principles that distinguish genuinely great leaders, illustrated through history and a life in medicine. Based on his book of the same name.
Professor of Medicine · Harvard Medical School
Sanjiv ChopraMD, MACP, FRCP (London)
A hepatologist, best-selling author, and keynote speaker.
For four decades he has taught medicine at Harvard. For nearly as long he has carried a second message to audiences in more than twenty-five countries: that a life of meaning is built on a few deliberate principles.
40+years on the Harvard faculty
25+countries lectured in
80,000clinicians reached yearly as Faculty Dean for CME
15+books authored
01 · In brief
Two vocations, one throughline.
Sanjiv Chopra came to the United States from India in 1972 and has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1979. A hepatologist by training, he served for twelve years as Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard and served as the Marshall Wolf Distinguished Clinician Educator at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is Editor-in-Chief of the hepatology section of UpToDate, the electronic textbook of medicine subscribed to by some two million clinicians in 195 countries.
Alongside that career he became a sought-after speaker. Drawing on medicine, history, and the lives of great leaders, he lectures on leadership, healthy living, and the pursuit of a joy-filled life. With his brother Deepak he wrote the double memoir Brotherhood, the story of two immigrants who took very different paths into medicine.
Read the full biography →02 · Speaking
Signature keynotes
Talks that move easily between the lecture hall and the main stage, grounded in evidence and told through story.
02Purpose
Happiness and Living with Purpose
The difference between happiness, joy, and bliss; the practice of gratitude; and what he calls the two most important days of your life.
03Health
Live Better, Live Longer
A physician's clear-eyed tour of the evidence on diet, screening, supplements, and daily habits, separating what the research supports from what it does not.
04Medicine
The Top Stories in Medicine
The breakthroughs that reshaped human health over the last century, and a grounded look at where medicine is heading in the next fifty years.
03 · The Big Five
Five habits, decades of evidence.
In his book The Big Five, written with David Fisher, Dr. Chopra distills the research behind five simple, nearly free habits associated with longer, healthier lives.
1Coffee
2Vitamin D
3Exercise
4Nuts
5Meditation
04 · Books
The books
More than fifteen titles spanning medicine, leadership, well-being, and memoir, with his seventeenth on the way.
Memoir
Brotherhood
with Deepak Chopra · 2013
Purpose
The Two Most Important Days
with Gina Vild · 2017
Leadership
Leadership by Example
with David Fisher · 2012
Health
The Big Five
with David Fisher · 2016
Health
Live Better, Live Longer
2012
Medicine
Doctor Chopra Says
with Alan Lotvin and David Fisher · 2010
Medicine
Is Wine the Best Medicine?
with Alan Lotvin and David Fisher · 2011
Health
Coffee the Magical Elixir
with Deepak Chopra · 2021
Medicine
Conquer Your Diabetes
with Martin Abrahamson
Medicine
Letters to a Young Doctor
with Pankaj Vij
Communication
Ignite the Fire Within
with Rick Najera
Reference
The Liver Book
2001
05 · Watch
TEDx · Boston University · 2019
Dharma: Happiness and Living with Purpose
In his TEDx talk, Dr. Chopra explores the tenets of lasting happiness: friendship, forgiveness, service to others, and gratitude. Happiness, he argues, is more than the sum of happy moments.
Watch on TED.comBooking & inquiries
Bring Dr. Chopra to your stage.
Dr. Chopra speaks to corporations, hospitals, universities, academic societies, CEO clubs, wealth management firms, and conferences worldwide on leadership, well-being, and the practice of a purposeful life. Inquiries are welcome.