Digital Beliefs

Dr Michelle Joosse is a researcher, author and keynote speaker whose work examines how thinking, identity and digital environments shape what people believe, trust and decide. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience across business leadership, finance, technology, governance and organisational transformation, she helps audiences and readers understand why intelligent people can interpret the same information differently.

Her book, Digital Beliefs: How We See the World Through Digital Filters and Why We End Up in Different Realities, explores how cognition, identity, belonging, experience and digital systems influence judgement. It encourages readers to notice the assumptions and blind spots that affect their own decisions, consider what information may be missing, and approach disagreement with greater curiosity. Joosse’s work also examines how algorithms and online environments can amplify familiar views and shape what people encounter.

Through her research, writing and keynote speaking, Joosse promotes more thoughtful engagement with information. Her practical resources include a five-question self-check that invites people to reflect on why content reaches them, what emotions it triggers, and whether they seek perspectives beyond their own.