Jane McGonigal is a world-renowned game designer, best-selling author and the leading thought leader in the field of game-based collaboration to improve healthcare and other real-world problems.

Jane McGonigal specializes in games that encourage players to tackle real-world problems such as poverty, hunger and climate change through global collaboration. Their mobile app and web-based game SuperBetter are leading the way in helping people manage depression, anxiety, chronic pain and stress. She has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Army to use games for treatment, and with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve medical research.

Jane McGonigal is Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute For The Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, California, and one of the leading voices on the engagement economy and the application of game design in the real world.

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