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Shawn Achor Featured New York Times Bestselling Author and Positive Psychology Expert

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Select Keynotes

  • The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance
  • The Ripple Effect: How to Make Positive Change Easier
  • Resilient Optimism: Restoring a Culture of Confidence
  • Rethinking the Formula for Success: The Power of Positive Education
  • Positive Genius: The Key to Raising Success, Spreading Happiness & Sustaining Positive Change

Select Book Titles

  • 2020 How to Make a Shark Smile: How a Positive Mindset Spreads Happiness (Children's Book)
  • 2018 Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
  • 2013 Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change
  • 2012 The Orange Frog : How One Spark Change An Island
  • 2010 The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
  • 2007 Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

After spending twelve years at Harvard University, Shawn Achor has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His research on mindset made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular of all time with over 25 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn’s talks have taken him to more than 50 countries to speak to a wide range of audiences including six battalions of Marines at Camp Pendleton, all the NBA team owners, CEOs in China, doctors in Dubai, school children in South Africa, farmers in Zimbabwe, leaders at the Pentagon, and to half of the Fortune 100 companies. Shawn is one of only two speakers to ever be invited to speak to the White House staff at Camp David.

Shawn is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential. His Happiness Advantage training is one of the largest and most successful positive psychology corporate training programs in the world.

Shawn’s research has been published in the top psychology journal for work he did at UBS in partnership with Yale University to transform how stress impacts the body. He also did a two-part series with Oprah at her house to discuss his mission to bring positive psychology to the world.


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