Dan Heath

{{Short description|American author and speaker}}

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Dan Heath is an American bestselling author, speaker and fellow at Duke University's CASE center.{{cite web |title=CASE |url=https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/ |website=centers.fuqua.duke.edu}} He, along with his brother Chip Heath, has co-authored four books, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUgCHkxZTX4C&q=Made+to+Stick:+Why+Some+Ideas+Survive+and+Others+Die |title=Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck|isbn=9781407008240|last1=Heath|first1=Chip|last2=Heath|first2=Dan|date=4 September 2008|publisher=Random House }} Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (2010),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmzbeoN-KZ0C&q=Switch:+How+to+change+things+when+change+is+hard |title=Switch: How to change things when change is hard|isbn=9781448108213|last1=Heath|first1=Dan|last2=Heath|first2=Chip|date=31 October 2011|publisher=Random House }} Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work,{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Chip |last2=Heath |first2=Dan |author-link2=Dan Heath |date=2013 |title=Decisive: how to make better choices in life and work |edition=1st |location=New York |publisher=Crown Business |isbn=9780307956392 |oclc=798613602 }} and The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (2017).{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Chip |last2=Heath |first2=Dan |author-link2=Dan Heath |date=2017 |title=The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact |edition=1st |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9781501147760 |oclc=1003765538 }} Heath released his first solo work, Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, in 2020.{{cite web |title=Macro Starts With Micro (SSIR) |url=https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/macro_starts_with_micro |website=ssir.org |language=en-us}}

From 2007 to 2011, the Heath brothers wrote a column for Fast Company magazine.{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/madetostick |title=Made to Stick, FastCompany |access-date=2012-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123093530/http://www.fastcompany.com/madetostick |archive-date=2012-11-23 |url-status=dead }}

Made to Stick was named the Best Business Book of the Year, was on the BusinessWeek bestseller list for 24 months, and has been translated into 29 languages.{{cite web |url=http://constellationbooks.blogspot.in/2008/01/best-business-book-of-year.html |title=Constellation Books: Best Business Book of the Year|date=23 January 2008}}

In 2018, Heath hosted the first season of Choiceology, a podcast about behavioral economics.{{Cite news|url=https://blog.pacific-content.com/why-best-selling-authors-make-amazing-podcast-hosts-b8e7b62c3d61|title=Why Best-Selling Authors Make Amazing Podcast Hosts|date=2018-02-13|work=Pacific Content|access-date=2018-02-28}}