Neil Seeman is a Canadian author on mental health and health policy topics, book publisher, and Internet entrepreneur.[2][3] His books and essays seek to describe mental health stigma in business and society as seen through his experiences as an entrepreneur and public health researcher.[4]
In 1998, Seeman was a founding member of the editorial board of the National Post newspaper. In 2006, he co-founded the Health Strategy Innovation Cell at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Seeman is the co-author of Psyche in the Lab: Celebrating Brain Science in Canada (Hogrefe & Huber). He is the co-author of XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame (University of Toronto Press) which was a shortlist finalist for the Donner Prize in 2011.[7][8] The authors' concept of "healthy living vouchers" in XXL was criticized for being impractical and too reliant on state intervention to be effective as a policy tool to curtail the obesity epidemic.[9]
Work in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mental health
In 2008, Seeman invented and patented random domain intercept technology, a form of Web intercept survey.[10] This led Seeman to found the Big Data firm RIWI in 2009.[11] He was CEO of RIWI, which in 2020 went public on the TSX Venture Exchange, until September, 2021.[12] In May, 2023, he published Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain.[13] In November, 2023, he co-founded Sutherland House Experts, for which he is CEO and Publisher.[14]
Research involvement in mental health and health policy
Seeman is the son of dopamine scientist Philip Seeman and women's mental health researcher Mary V. Seeman.[19] He is married to Sarit Goldman-Seeman and is the father of Dori Seeman and David Seeman. [20]
