Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a master’s from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. After spending twelve years at Harvard, Shawn traveled to 50 countries, studying how to create an interconnected approach to potential and happiness. He has now worked with over a third of the Fortune 100 companies and at places like NASA, the NFL, and the Pentagon. Shawn has battle-tested his research in high-challenge environments—from working with all the public schools in Flint, Michigan, to six battalions of Marines at Camp Pendleton, to government leaders at Camp David, to students in a shantytown in Soweto, South Africa, to hospitals in the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando and the Boston bombing. In every place, Shawn has found optimism can be increased through mindset and behavioral change, and that by creating an interconnected approach to happiness and success, we shine brighter together. Shawn’s research made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED Talk is one of the most popular of all time with over 25 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions.