Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains To Performance

Shawn explains what positive psychology is, how much we can change, and practical applications and strategies for reaping the Happiness Advantage in the midst of change and challenge.

The Ripple Effect: How To Make Positive Change Easier

Audiences will learn about the latest scientific research on mirror neurons and mental priming to explain how positivity and negativity spread, case studies on how to become a lightning rod for change, and findings on how a positive ripple effect profoundly affects an organization’s ability to transition and change.

Resilient Optimism: Restoring A Culture Of Confidence

Based on the science of positive psychology and case studies of working with companies during an economic collapse, Shawn provides practical applications for raising the belief that individual behavior matters and strategies to help leaders to keep teams motivated and engaged.

Rethinking The Formula For Success: The Power Of Positive Education

Shawn uses the latest research, interactive experiments, and humorous stories, to show how simple changes to our mindset and habits can bring this research to life and create happiness and success for our schools and for ourselves.

Positive Genius: The Key To Raising Success, Spreading Happiness & Sustaining Positive Change

Participants will learn how to harness the latest research on managing stress that Shawn did with Yale University, how to navigate multiple realities at work, cancel internal and external noise, add vantage points to planning, use success accelerants to speed goal completion and use meaning markers to spread positive genius throughout a team, family and an entire organization.

Big Potential: How Transforming The Pursuit Of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness And Well-being

We have long thought about potential as being a set of individual traits: your creativity, your skills, your intelligence. But thanks to exciting new research combining neuroscience and psychology with Big Data, we now know that our potential is not limited by what we alone can achieve. 

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles Of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success & Performance At Work

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys To Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness And Sustaining Positive Change

This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.