I’m the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving health and helping us move from merely surviving to thriving. I also founded The Huffington Post and have written 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution.

I’m originally from Greece (and still have the accent to prove it!). When I was 17, I moved to England and studied economics at Cambridge University, where I frankly spent most of my time debating at the Cambridge Union.

I live in New York but also spend time in Los Angeles, and love being a Yiayia (Greek for grandmother) to my almost three-year-old grandson Alexander and his newborn sister Annabel.

My journey to focusing on health began with a fall. In April 2007, I collapsed from exhaustion and burnout and hit my head on my desk on the way down, breaking my cheekbone.
 
In the wake of my fall, I found myself going from doctor to doctor to find out what was wrong. Doctors’ waiting rooms were good places for me to ask myself a lot of questions about the kind of life I was living.

After all the tests, it turned out nothing was wrong. Except for the fact that everything was wrong. I was suffering from an acute case of burnout. I had bought into the myth that burnout was the price I had to pay for success. 

I became more and more passionate about the five daily habits that drive so much of our health: nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management and connection. That led me to write Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. 

The books struck a chord, but I wanted to go beyond speaking and writing to helping people move from awareness to action. So in 2016 I founded Thrive Global, which helps people transform their health by combining Microsteps — small, science-backed daily steps — with technology, storytelling and community. And last year, with the OpenAI Startup Fund, we launched Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach to democratize access to health coaching.

Arianna Huffington

"My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve."

Great advice and powerful perspective from Warren Buffett, in one of his final letters sent as CEO to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, about the helpful lessons he learned from friends over the years. 

As he put it: "Get the right heroes and copy them.”

Founder and CEO at Thrive Global | Passionate about Health and AI

Love this 💜

🎨: To You From Steph via Instagram

We all feel anxiety and fear — it’s part of life.

One way to manage it is to look at the things we can control.

And the things we can control start with our own daily habits.

Loved being with Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN talking leadership, women, and finding glimmers of light in the turbulence.

There's no better time to start. 

Love this from YUCH Studio.

“When the world feels fast and fractured, it’s the slow, steady, and deeply present love of a parent that can change everything.”

That’s from Dr. Amit Sood’s great new book, “Dancing in the Elevator,” that he co-authored with his daughter, Gauri Sood, where they unpack decades of lessons in parenting, friendship, and growing up.

As they write, “Think of this book as a small care package from our family to yours—filled with science, stories, and practical skills, all wrapped in the promise that you are not alone. May it help us, together, nurture a kinder, happier, and more hopeful world for every child.”

Diagnoses and job descriptions tell us what we have or what we do — never who we are.

Because if we’re defined by our labels, we’re also confined by our labels.

No label, however authoritative, and no job, however important, can ever contain the full constellation of who we might become.

"I’m still placing my bets that AI can be a force for good. But it remains an open question. Right now, we’re at a fork in the road, where two different futures are possible.”

That’s from my conversation with Lucy Handley in Big Think in which we talked about the possibilities of AI and why it’s important for us to use our agency and build the AI future we want.

Want to slow the aging process? 

Instead of supplements and serums, get a little help from your friends. In a study by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), researchers found that those who were more socially connected actually aged slower on a cellular level and had lower systemic inflammation. It’s more evidence that our daily behaviors are one of our most powerful medical interventions. 

As Luigi Ferrucci, chief scientific director at the National Institute on Aging, put it, “The next great step in aging science will be understanding how lifestyle factors slow down aging.”

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How young is too young to give a child a cellphone?

Catherine Pearson of The New York Times reports on a study that found that children who had smartphones by age 12 were at higher risk of depression, obesity and poor sleep.

“When you give your kid a phone, you need to think of it as something that is significant for the kid’s health — and behave accordingly,” said Dr. Ran Barzilay, lead study author and a psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Barzilay is careful to note the study isn’t meant to shame parents. He has three children, and two of them got phones before age 12, but his 9-year-old won’t be joining them anytime soon.

“It doesn’t mean that every kid with a smartphone has a problem for life,” he said. “All it means is that us as parents — and, I hope, also policymakers and society — are going to do something about it together.”

What age do you think kids should be allowed to have a smartphone?

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced that they’re going to refocus their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on AI and biology not just to cure some diseases, but to cure all diseases. As they put it in a statement, “When we started, our goal was to help scientists cure or prevent all diseases this century. With advances in AI, we now believe this may be possible much sooner.”

I’m always puzzled when people say they’re going to use AI to cure or prevent all diseases, since it completely ignores the established science on the profound role our daily habits and behaviors — what we eat, how much we move, how we sleep, our stress levels, our social connections — have on the incidence and progression of disease. To take just food as an example, around 85% of all healthcare spending is related to the management of diet-related chronic diseases. And obesity is connected to at least 236 conditions and diseases.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative statement talks about “training new biological AI models to create virtual cells and immune systems and engineer our cells to detect and treat disease.” I’m all for it. As well as investing in AI to create better diagnostics and more lifesaving drugs. But there’s so much we can do with what we already know about the science on our daily behaviors.

At a launch event, Priscilla Chan said that “we want to make every single scientist better, to take on more risk, to ask the most brave, curious questions so that they can find out what's true in biology.”

Here are two of my curious questions: Isn't it about time we realize that the ultimate limiting factor of the impact of AI on health is going to be human nature? And given that, shouldn’t we begin to invest in humans as much as we're investing in machines? Yes, AI, and, no doubt, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, will have a hugely positive impact on health. But AI can have an even bigger impact by being applied to something we already have a lot of data on: helping humans improve their daily habits can dramatically transform their health.

Data-Driven Operations Leader | Digital Healthcare | Strategic Planning | Partnerships | Business Planning And Analysis | Servant Leadership

I have led transformative projects with small teams at startups and large global teams for a Fortune 15 company. I am passionate about empowering others and driving positive change in the world.

I'm a lifelong learner who knows that strong operations, solid strategic planning and a culture of good communication are the pillars for success. 

My team has been responsible for multi-million-dollar CRM/ERP implementations, creation of analytics frameworks, development of sales, marketing, and implementation playbooks, and 10+ Mergers and Acquisitions.

My career focus has been in the healthcare/medical device/digital healthcare space, but I am open to other industries. My experience spans sales, strategy, business development, marketing, operations and analytics providing me with a comprehensive understanding of the whole ecosystem.

Highlights Include:

* Developing a comprehensive enablement plan and revamping the sales and marketing processes and workflows, which led to a 45% improvement in forecasting accuracy.

* Implementing operational workflow changes in marketing, professional services, and sales, saving over 20 hours per week and $500k annually in administrative costs.

* Overseeing the integration of 10 M&A projects resulting in annual operational cost savings of over $2M by eliminating redundant processes.

* Introducing a cross-functional whitespace tool that identified $20M in overlooked pipeline opportunities.

* Establishing a telehealth care model that increased patient volumes by 30%.


My skills include:

Operational Leadership
Business Planning
Healthcare and Medical Device sectors
Expertise in building Sales/Revenue Operations infrastructure
CRM, CPQ, ERP Implementation and Business Leader
M&A management
Project management
Data Analytics
Change Management 

I can be reached at sherri.carpineto1@gmail.com

Sherri Carpineto

Nothing reminds you that you’re unemployed like Thanksgiving dinner.
The questions.
The side glances.
The “you’ll bounce back” pep talks from someone who’s been at the same job since 2004.

It’s not just the layoff that hurts.
It’s being expected to smile through it.

The truth is, layoffs don’t take holidays.
They follow you to the table.
They sit quietly beside the cranberry sauce.
They echo in every “So what’s next?” from a cousin you haven’t seen in five years.

You don’t need to perform gratitude just because it’s November.
You’re allowed to feel the grief, the fear, the fatigue.

Not everything needs a silver lining.
Not every loss needs to be “a blessing in disguise.”

Sometimes it’s just hard.
And that’s the most honest thing you can bring to the table.

Be a good human

My husband called me early this morning to pick him up, his car was undrivable after a bad accident.

Not the 7am call anyone wants. Or the call anyone wants ever. 

When I arrived his whole front end of his car was gone. The car likely totaled. The rubber brake pad came slipped off the brake and he hit another car. 

Not on our 2025 bingo card or in our financial plans. 

After a year of incredible challenges - losing our dog, my husband hospitalized and struggling with medical issues, my son injured, stitches in my toe, damage to our home…. 

It’s just….not what we needed. 

It’s been a horrible year of challenges.

But we were able to pay the tow truck driver. We will, with some challenges, be able to get a car with insurance money. 

He is ok, the most important thing. 

And we both have jobs to go to this week.

So many do not. I remember in 2023 when I was in a car accident, hit from behind, when I was laid off. 

The anxiety was even worse. 

If you are so inclined, please help my holiday drive for laid off workers. 

I am happy to provide receipts. 

And target (yes I know we don’t want to support them) has a gift card sale right now if you’re so inclined - that’s great too)

I have many more families to help… but 2025 you’re giving me a challenge 

Please consider giving. 

Please consider sharing your story.

Please comment on this post for more engagement. 

And please let’s hope 2026 is the best year for all of us 🥰

Be a good human

My new job and toilet paper together. 🧻 




You may be wondering why my new job consists of a large box of toilet paper…

Well today we finished our last box from the COVID-era. Yes 2021-ish time frame.

During Covid I was laid off after 15 years. Home-schooling kids, and fearful of what was next for me. 

I landed a new job 5 months later and in 2023 the same year my dad got ill and died, I was laid off again. 

Same anxiety. 

But during Covid so many helped, there was so much community and kindness amongst the fighting about masks 

And this is why this holiday drive means so much to me. 

My new job for the next few weeks consists of making magic for those who don’t have any this year.

And with SO many amazing donors… we are doing just that 

Because the world is upside down. People fight daily but parents and the kids who didn’t ask for layoffs deserve help.

I still have 20+ families I can help. Likely  more I haven’t answered.

If you’d like to donate, ways in comments. 

One more week to get all the gifts delivered on time 

And if not, please just comment and support. 

Because in Covid times it was hard and scary  but people were in together 

Be a good human

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

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I was laid off and could use some new warm winter clothes and learning activities for my 8 month old son. 



This was the DM I got. 


Santa doesn’t need to bring huge toys to all kids..  

But also still looking for:

Large beanbag chair for autistic child to read 
Massage guns and recovery for teenage athlete (think I got this right) 
New kitchen gadgets and cooking stuff tor a child who is teaching herself to cook 
Legos always Lego sets! 
Arts and crafts for younger kids 
Pens for drawing for teenage girl 

Come on LinkedIn we have a little more work to do.  

I still have at least 15 families to help before I shut down this drive for now. 

I’m hoping to raise another $2000. Every penny goes to families in need. 

GoFundMe and Venmo (no fees) in comments as well as this mom’s story.

Every dollar is helpful 

Please COMMENT on my post to help the algorithm too.

Thank you. thank YOU. 💕 for bringing holiday magic 

Be a good human

Crazy thought here:
You’re allowed to love your job and still count down to Friday like it’s a national holiday.

Both things can be true.
And honestly?
Most weeks… they are.

Be a good human

Sometimes you just need to grab what you want and hold on tight… even if others don’t think you should have it..

That’s what Cooper believes anyway. 

We all need a little bit of unapologetic determination and grit in our lives 

Be a good human. Or a good bloodhound.

If you’re willing to donate to laid off parents who need some presents this holiday season please comment 

If you need help with presents please comment and I’ll get back to you for details 

Thanks for giving starts now 

Be a good human

Thank you LinkedIn. Thank to this amazing community. 

YOU all are the magic.

Hoping to keep it going for the next week.

Together it’s possible.

If you’re laid off… there IS hope 

There is kindness.

There is help 

Be a good human 

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

More links in comments 

Still more wish lists to fulfill 

Anyone have connections to get a Switch 2 for a single mom with special needs kids? 

A giant beanbag chair for an autistic boy who wants to read? 

PlayStation gift cards?

New sneakers for teenagers?

Lots of arts and crafts?

graphical user interface, text, application

Anyone else still not used to the time change?

Because every day at 4:58 PM my body politely informs me that we’re done here. 

Shut it down. Bedtime. But…….

 My responsibilities are thinking something else. 

I still have emails, homework help, dinner, laundry, and a sudden existential crisis to handle.

This season is exhausting. But at least we’re all delusional together.

Be a good human

😢 it’s been an emotional week 


Showing the biggest struggles and the most amazing generosity all at once.

Thank you Feast & Fettle PlayMonster toys and SO many amazing donors.

We will be able to help many…

But stories like yhjs… so many more to help. 

If you need help please reach out… I will do my best 

If you can help please see my comments for donations 

OR please COMMENT AND like and share too

Engagement is hard 

I am also free coaching to anyone laid for before and of the year as time allows before Istart paid coaching again next year 

Thank you for helping 

Thank you for trusting me with your stories 

Thank you for renewing my faith in humanity 

Be a good human.

There is light where there is darkness 


We can’t help everyone but for one more week I am determined to help more 

Even $10 or $20 donation for every person that sees this will help.

No scams. No strings. Just humanity. 

Be a good human 

Ways to help in comments 

OR please COMMENT to increase visibility

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

“My husband and I both lost our jobs this year and we are still looking for a new positions. I am trying to stay positive but it has been very difficult year for us. 

This Christmas definitely feels a little bit different. We decided not to do any gift exchange but try to get something for our son. I am hopeful 2026 will be better for everyone”

Another DM today. 


I am halfway to my first GoFundMe goal and SO many more inbox like this family waiting to be helped.

If we can get 250 people to donate $25 I could help SO many children this holiday season 

Let’s bring hope and magic to those struggling thanks to corporate decisions 

Be a good human

Stop shaming people who don’t want to work for themselves. 

People who want to work in a company still “bet on themselves.” 

They bet that they know their priorities, desires, and what makes them happy. 

I applaud entrepreneurs as much as I do corporate workers.

You can be laid off at any time just as your business can fail. 

Instead of shame or pretending you’re better than..  let’s meet people where they are.

Some people want meaning, what their own thing, want a job with purpose. 

Some just want a paycheck to find their purpose outside of work. 

Less judgement more help makes the world better. 

Be a good human

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