Shawn Achor

Happiness Expert

Shawn Achor is an American author, speaker, and founder. He spent twelve years of his career at Harvard University, where he established himself as one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. Achor founded GoodThink, Inc. in 2007. GoodThink is a company of researchers and speakers that offers positive psychology-related services to improve work performance. Achor’s “Happiness Advantage” training is one of the largest and most successful positive psychology corporate training programs in the world.

Education

  • Master’s Degree in Christian and Buddhist Ethics, Harvard Divinity School
  • Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature/Letters, Harvard University

Professional Achievements

  • New York Times best-selling author of both "The Happiness Advantage" and "Big Potential"
  • Frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, with over thirty-five articles published in both the online and print versions of the journal
  • His research on how stress impacts the body, generated in partnership with Yale University, was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Achor's TED talk, “The Happy Secret to Better Work”, is one of the most popular talks of all time with over 25 million views
  • Achor and his work were the subject of a two-part series with Oprah, in which he discussed his mission to bring positive psychology to the world

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