Wendy Troxel
Sleep Scientist | Improving Health and Performance
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Wendy Troxel is a clinical psychologist and senior behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on the impact of sleep on physical and mental health, as well as workplace and academic performance.
Troxel's TED talk 'Why School Should Start Later for Teens' has over 3 million views, advocating for later school start times based on adolescent sleep needs. Her insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Troxel's keynotes provide science-backed strategies to help individuals and organizations optimize sleep for better health, focus, and productivity.
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Why school should start later for teens
Teens don't get enough sleep, and it's not because of Snapchat, social lives or hormones -- it's because of public policy, says Wendy Troxel. Drawing from her experience as a sleep researcher, clinician and mother of a teenager, Troxel discusses how early school start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.
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