Shawn Achor
| Shawn Achor | |
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| Born |
1977/1978 (age 36–37)[1] Waco, Texas, U.S. |
| Education |
BA, Harvard University MA, Harvard Divinity School |
| Occupation | Business consultant, psychological researcher, author, and presenter |
| Organization | GoodThinkInc., Institute of Applied Positive Research |
| Known for | Positive Psychology, finding success through happiness |
| Notable work | The Happiness Advantage, The Orange Frog, Before Happiness |
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Shawn Achor (born 1977 or 1978)[1] is an American corporate trainer, author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology.[2] He authored The Happiness Advantage[3] and founded the Institute of Positive Research and GoodThinkInc.[4] His TEDxBloomington talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work"[5] is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks.
Education
Achor received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and a Master of Arts in in Christian and Buddhist Ethics from Harvard Divinity School.
Career
After college and divinity school, Achor worked as a Freshman Proctor and teaching assistant at Harvard University. He was one of the teaching assistants for Tal Ben-Shahar's popular "Happiness" course.
In 2007, Achor founded GoodThinkInc.(GoodThink),[6] and then later founded The Institute for Applied Positive Research with his wife Michelle Gielan. The company offers consultancy services, seminars, and presentations on positive psychology intended to improve work performance.[4] The team consists of researchers, speakers, and trainers, who deliver information to organizations.[4]
Achor presented at TEDxBloomington,[7] and promoted his products on a KBTC infomercial.[8]
His most recent book is Before Happiness, published by Crown in September 2013.[9] This book features research that Achor conducted with Ali Crum and Prof. Peter Salovey at Yale University at the large Swiss bank UBS, which was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [10] providing evidence that changing one's mindset about stress changes the physical effects of stress.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Frauenheim, Ed (September 12, 2013). "The Power of Positive Tinkering". Workforce.com.
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- ↑ Kaminer, Ariel (April 20, 2012). "Returning to College, Without the Beer". The New York Times.
- ↑ Achor, Shawn (2010). The Happiness Advantage. Random House. ISBN 9780307591562.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "About Us". Good Think, Inc. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
- ↑ Shawn Achor. "Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work - Talk Video - TED.com". ted.com.
- ↑ Schawbel, Dan (October 9, 2013). "Shawn Achor: What You Need To Do Before Experiencing Happiness - Forbes". Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work". TED. May 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
- ↑ "The Happiness Advantage". KBTC-TV. Archived from the original on November 28, 2011.
- ↑ Achor, Shawn. Before Happiness. Crown Publishing Group. New York, NY. 2013
- ↑ Crum, Alia, Peter Salovey, and Shawn Achor. "Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the Stress Response." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 104, no. 4 (2013): 716-733.