Good Thinking.
Better Questions.
Best Decisions.
We believe a productive balance between overthinking and underthinking is possible.
Our Story
Applied Curiosity Lab® (ACL) is a global training company that helps organizations and teams ignite curiosity and use critical thinking frameworks to optimize decision-making.
Applying the Good Thinking® principles and proven Decision-Hygiene Frameworks from our best-selling LinkedIn Learning courses and workshops, we offer forward-thinking companies and organizations a systematic way to cultivate a culture of curiosity and critical thinking — resulting in reliably better decisions
Becki Saltzman
Founder & Chief Curiosity Seeker
Becki Saltzman is the architect behind some of the most widely adopted training tools for critical thinking, applied curiosity, and decision quality. With a background in applied behavioral science and a track record of developing high-impact learning content she has helped organizations globally employ critical thinking frameworks and move beyond treating curiosity as an innate trait, and instead, use it as a practical tool for insight, innovation, and influence.
Becki’s critical thinking training methodology has been tested and refined with over 3 million learners across industries, roles, and geographies. As the founder and Chief Curiosity Seeker at Applied Curiosity Lab, she heads content design and facilitator training, building systems that help organizations think clearly under pressure and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
Barkley Saltzman
Director of Decision Intelligence & Client Engagement
Barkley Saltzman has led the transformation of decision hygiene into a practical system for decision intelligence. As Director of Decision Intelligence & Client Engagement at Applied Curiosity Lab, he specializes in turning human messiness – biases, blind spots, assumptions – into measurable, improvable decision systems.
With a background in behavioral science and international conflict resolution, Barkley doesn’t just help people think better, he helps organizations codify and scale that thinking. From high-stakes boardrooms to conflict zones, he's made it his mission to bridge human insight with structural clarity.
He’s now leading the transformation of HSDM from a high-stakes decision training program into a fully integrated enterprise solution.