Dawna Ballard is Associate Professor in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. She is an expert in chronemics—the study of time as it is bound to human communication. She researches what drives our pace of life and its impact on the communication practices and long-term vitality of organizations, communities, and individuals. Her research and commentary have been featured in a variety of mainstream venues including NPR, PBS MediaShift, Huffington Post, Medium, Ignite, and Women’s eNews and has a forthcoming book called Work Pressures. She teaches an original course called Time Matters and is particularly interested in how applying longer time scales to social problems reveals new approaches and solutions. Dawna serves as Chief Time Mmindding Advisor at Mmindd Labs. A native Californian, she received her doctorate in organizational communication from the University of California at Santa Barbara.