Shawn Achor Books

Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being

Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change

Ripple's Effect

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Speaker Lists Featuring Shawn Achor

Motivational Speakers for a Successful Sales Kickoff

A sales kickoff meeting is an annual employee conference, traditionally taking place in January, that brings your entire sales team together and sets the tone for the year ahead. This meeting aims to boost morale, encourage...

Habit-Forming Advocates

These habit-forming advocates range from bestselling authors to clinical psychologists to popular productivity bloggers. These inspirational speakers will teach any audience how to harness their potential by optimizing their...

Best Keynote Speakers on Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, aware of what we are doing and where we are. Many studies show that mindfulness has the power to improve well-being, physical health, and mental health. These inspiring health...

Inspirational Speakers on Workplace & Employee Wellness

These popular keynote speakers are experts in workplace and employee wellness. Whether they specialize in work-life balance, leadership practices, employee engagement, organization skills, performance or employment benefits,...

Greatest Public Speakers To Keynote Your Event

Public speakers are experts in their fields and are known for their dynamic storytelling and engaging discussions. Whether you are in need of a keynote address, conference emcee, or a commanding commencement speaker, these...

Popular Conference Speakers For Business, Health & Technology Summits

Looking to book a top conference speaker for your next corporate event? These featured conference speakers exhibit charisma, stage presence, and eloquence, and have an abundance of experience in motivating and encouraging...

Top Speakers on Stress Awareness & Management

Stress is a common problem that if not managed can lead to more serious conditions including high blood pressure and depression. As everyone deals with stress in their work and personal lives, even more so in today's...

Top Speakers Behind Trending TED Talks

Covering topics ranging from medicine to relationships, these inspiring men and women have delivered popular TED Talks. Informative and educational, their powerful ideas have influenced other thinkers and helped shape the...

Influential Speakers on Corporate Culture

As experts on topics like human resources, employee retention, and worker productivity, these men and women address how employers create a positive corporate culture. They are award-winning authors, recruiters, and others...

Best TED Speakers of All Time

Whether the talk was given at an official TED conference or at one of the thousands of TEDx events across the globe, these keynote speakers, thought leaders, bestselling authors, business mavericks and world-class experts...

15 Best Speakers on Emotional Intelligence

"When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion," stated Dale Carnegie. When an individual has emotional intelligence, they are able to identify and manage their...

Motivational Human Resource Thought Leaders

These speakers are CEOs, authors, and leading experts in human resource management, who will help your audience cut through the noise and learn valuable thought leadership lessons to help your organization become more...

Browse All Keynote Speaker Lists »

Shawn Achor Speaking Topics

FAQs on booking Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor Speaker Videos

• HRR: Shawn Achor, NYT Best Selling Author and Harvard Professor

  

  He taught the most popular course at Harvard University and was featured on Oprah. He now shares his academic research on the science of happiness with HR pros building better workplaces.
  Shawn Achor - Positive Psychology Expert

  

  Shawn Achor is the bestselling author of "The Happiness Advantage" and "Big Potential."
• Shawn Achor on happiness as a competitive advantage

  

  Happiness and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor talked about his research of (mostly unhappy) Harvard students.
  The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor

  

  In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.

Shawn Achor Speaking Topics

• The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance

  Most companies and schools follow this formula: if you work harder, you will be more successful, and then you will be happy. This formula is scientifically backward. A decade of research shows that training your brain to be positive at work first actually fuels greater success second. In fact, 75% of our job success is predicted not by intelligence, but by your optimism, social support network and the ability to manage energy and stress in a positive way. By researching top performers at Harvard, the world’s largest banks, and Fortune 500 companies, Shawn discovered patterns which create a happiness advantage for positive outliers—the highest performers at the company. Based on his new book, The Happiness Advantage (September 2010 from Random House), Shawn explains what positive psychology is, how much we can change, and practical applications for reaping the Happiness Advantage in the midst of change and challenge. Takeaways
  • How mindset is a choice, not just our genes and environment
  • How happiness and success are contagious
  • How to shift your mindset from "once I'm successful then I'll be happy"
  • 5 habits that change the baseline of happiness (2 min gratitude, 2 min journaling, 2 min meditation, 15 min exercise, 2 min kind email)

• Positive Leadership: Restoring a Culture of Confidence

  Confidence, trust and job satisfaction are at historic lows. When the economic collapse began, the worlds largest banks called in Shawn Achor to research how to restore confidence and forward progress. While many managers succumb to helplessness, with their teams and clients quickly following suit, Shawn researched those who maintained high levels of success and leadership during the challenge. He found that our brains create confidence based on the belief that our behavior matters to the outcome we desire. To develop this trust, we must create wins for our brain necessary to overcome learned helplessness and must train our brains for rational optimism. Based on the science of positive psychology and case studies of working with companies in the midst of an economic collapse, Shawn provides practical applications for raising the belief that individual behavior matters and helping leaders to keep teams motivated and engaged.

• The Ripple Effect: How to Make Positive Change Easier

  Common sense is not common action. This is because information does not necessarily cause transformation because we require a certain level of activation energy to start a change. Shawn Achors research in the field of positive psychology has revealed how changes in our own brain due to mindset and behavior can have a ripple effect to a team and an entire organization. This positive ripple effect can create a more productive, positive work culture making 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 organizations ability to transition and change.

• Rethinking the Formula for Success: The Power of Positive Education

  At schools and companies alike, we are sometimes taught to think: “if I work harder, then I will be successful, and then I will be happy.” This formula–which undergirds much of our educational and professional world–is scientifically backwards. Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage,explains how positive brains reap a unique advantage raising nearly every educational and business outcome–but only if we get the formula right. By demonstrating how happiness is a choice, we can help students not only cultivate positive habits and mindsets, but achieve higher levels of success as a result. Shawn’s study on 1600 Harvard students and his seven years as a Freshmen Proctor gave him a unique window into the thinking of success-driven and sometimes overwhelmed students. His subsequent work at schools and companies in 51 different countries now reveals how very simple changes to our mindset and habits can result in positive changes that cascade to others around us. Using his new research which made the cover of Harvard Business Review, interactive experiments, and humorous stories, Shawn shows how we can bring this research to life for our schools and for ourselves.

• Positive Genius: The Key to Raising Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change.

  What is more important than IQ and emotional intelligence combined? Based on the research in Before Happiness, Shawn Achor takes us to the beginning of human potential to explain why some people are able to make great changes while others remain the same. Before you can make a change at work or home, your brain first constructs a picture of reality; this mental picture already determines your likelihood of success and your ability to harness your brain’s IQ, emotional and social intelligence. In this exciting talk, Shawn takes the audience to the cutting edge of positive psychology and neuroscience to clearly demonstrate how one can become a “positive genius”: one who can continually architect successful, positive realities based upon true facts then transfer those realities to others. Using his signature humor, new case studies and interactive experiments that engage the audience, Shawn makes this research come alive. Shawn illuminates new research he did in collaboration with Yale published in the top psychology journal this year showing step by step how a leader can change their mindset about stress to increase productivity by 30% and lower health problems and fatigue by 23%. Audiences leave with five clear, practical takeaways, which can immediately start to transform their life, raising both happiness and success rates. In this program, participants will learn 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.

Shawn Achor News

• Five Essential Tips To Be A Happy, Healthy, High-Performing ...

  In The Happiness Advantage, author Shawn Achor describes how happiness offers benefits in every major aspect of our lives. According to research, positive ...

• Council Post: Survival Tips For High Performers And Perfectionists ...

  Lack of control: Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage cites a study that has shown that having a sense of agency both at the office and at home is ...

• Deloitte Announces Registration Now Open for IMPACT 2020, a ...

  This year's event will feature authors Dan Pink and Shawn Achor. Pink is a New York Times bestselling author of "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing ...

• Shawn Achor and Susan Cain Named to Keynote Workfront Leap ...

  PRNewswire/ -- Workfront®, the work management application platform for the enterprise, today announced that best-selling authors Shawn Achor and Susan ...