AIRED: January 17, 2011– 11 am PST
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TITLE: “The Happiness Advantage”
SPECIAL GUEST: Shawn Achor, MCC, SCAC, Professor and Winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, and Author of Empowering Youth with ADD
View The Book: The Happiness Advantage
If you’re happy, you’ll be successful – NOT if you’re successful, you’ll be happy. Joining Allen and Melody is Shawn Achor is the professor for Harvard’s Happiness Course. Really! Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work. That’s what THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE is all about.
Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures in the most popular class at Harvard.
Shawn has lectured in 42 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work received attention in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
In 2006, he served as Head Teaching Fellow with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar of “Positive Psychology,” a class that enrolled 1 out of every 7 Harvard undergraduates. For seven years, Shawn served as an Officer of Harvard, living in Harvard Yard studying and counseling Harvard students. Shawn now travels around the world giving talks on this research. When the economy collapsed, the world’s largest banks sent Shawn on a tour of banking crisis centers to restore confidence and forward progress. He has worked with doctors in Dubai, farmers in Zimbabwe, CEOs in Hong Kong, and students in South Africa. Shawn is currently collaborating with Yale University on researching the link between happiness and performance and will soon be launching the Institute for Applied Positive Research
