Greg Dinkin

Greg Dinkin is a poker champion, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author. His six books include The Poker MBA (Random House) and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster).

When Greg combined the “poker mindset” with “mindfulness,” he won $100,000 at the World Series of Poker, lost 50 pounds, and built a world-class literary agency. The former PwC consultant combines his MBA in finance with holistic practices to show how to make winning decisions in business and life.

In his acclaimed TEDx Talk on “Mind Shift,” Greg outlines a practical approach on how to reprogram your belief systems to reach new heights.

Greg co-founded a literary agency that placed more than 130 books with major publishers and developed several films with Academy Award-winning actors and producers.

He has served as a corporate spy for Inter-Continental Hotels, a change management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, a housing coordinator for the Atlanta Olympic Village, and has sold portrait packages, office products, and home improvements.

A graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, he has written columns for Grantland, ThePostGame, Yahoo!, The Good Men Project, MeetMindful, and Card Player.

He has led workshops in Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand and has given keynote speeches for Skadden Arps law firm, The Cornell Club, and Young Presidents Organization (YPO), among others.