Speakers Shawn Achor: Psychologist
Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology.
Why you should listen to him:
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard.
He is the CEO of Good Think Inc., a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers -- people who are well above average -- to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. He is also the author of The Happiness Advantage.
Quotes by Shawn Achor
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“If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.”
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“[It’s] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.”
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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
- 12:20 Posted: Feb 2012
Shawn Achor on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDxBloomington