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    Shawn Achor

    NYTimes Bestselling Author and Positive Psychology Researcher
    AAE Speakers

    Shawn Achor, bestselling author of “The Happiness Advantage” and “Big Potential,” spent 12 years at Harvard, where he earned more than a dozen distinguished teaching awards and taught positive psychology in the university’s most popular course. He graduated magna cum laude and earned a master’s degree in Christian and Buddhist ethics from Harvard Divinity School.
    Now recognized as a global authority on the connection between happiness and success, Shawn has collaborated with over a third of the Fortune 100, as well as organizations like the NFL, Pentagon and U.S. Treasury. His work has taken him to 51 countries, where he has engaged diverse audiences—from farmers in Zimbabwe to CEOs in China, doctors in Dubai and schoolchildren in South Africa. In 2014, Oprah Winfrey conducted a two-hour interview with Shawn on the science of happiness and meaning. His groundbreaking research was featured on the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED Talk has amassed over 27 million views and his PBS lecture has reached millions of viewers worldwide.

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