Shawn Achor
Top emotional intelligence speaker, happiness researcher, founder of GoodThink Inc., and bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. He spent 12 years at Harvard University, where he won more than a dozen distinguished teaching awards and delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Shawn has since become one of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. He has worked with more than one third of the Fortune 100 companies, and with organizations including the National Football League, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Treasury. His research on happiness made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED Talk is one of the most popular of all time with more than 11 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions of viewers.