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Neil Seeman is co-founder and CEO of Sutherland House Experts. He is also an author, educator, essayist, lawyer, and mental health advocate.
Neil teaches creative writing at the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto, and is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and a Fellow of the Fields Institute, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, Massey College, and the Health Informatics, Visualization, and Equity (HIVE) Lab.
He is a regular contributor to Nikkei Asia, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Healthcare Quarterly and other publications. He is the founder and former CEO of RIWI, a publicly traded Big Data company. He was a founding editorial board member of the National Post and co-founder of the Health Strategy Innovation Cell.
Neil has published his research on mental health topics in Nature, Synapse, and in other leading academic journals. He is the co-author of three books on mental health, including XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame, which was a finalist for the Donner Book Prize and was selected as an “outstanding” title by the University Press Books Committee.
He is the author, most recently, of Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain, published by Sutherland House Books. Neil’s book has been declared a “must-read” for 2023 by The Next Big Idea Club, a list curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink.
Seeman is a graduate of the University of Toronto Law School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Neil Seeman is also a business columnist for The Toronto Star.
Enlightening Readers & Empowering Experts
Are you an entrepreneurial-minded writer?
Learn how Neil and his team at Sutherland House Experts are on a mission to change the publishing industry.
Accelerated Minds:
Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain
Why are some people compelled to take big risks on big ideas, attempting to change a market or, indeed, the world in ways that others find delusional? And why do they keep trying, again and again, often after repeated failures and at great personal expense?
Neil Seeman is one of those people: an internet entrepreneur steeped in North American start-up culture. He is also the son of one of Canada’s most important brain scientists.
Drawing on his own business experience and his father’s research into the brain’s processing of risk and reward, Seeman explains the entrepreneurial mindset -the world’s primary wealth creation engine- is in fact a form of addiction.
Recent Media Essays
"One of Canada’s sharpest voices on innovation”
- Brian Crombie, Talk Show Host: The Brian Crombie Radio Hour
