Shawn Achor

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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., and then later co-founded The Institute for Applied Positive Research with his wife, Michelle Gielan. The company consists of researchers, speakers, and trainers who offer positive psychology-related services to improve work performance.

Achor presented at TEDx, and his talk is listed as one of TED's 25 most popular with more than with 20 million views online. 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, and provided evidence that changing one's mindset about stress changes the physical effects of stress. His most recent book, Big Potential, was published in 2018 and expands his research beyond the individual by looking at how empowering others helps us all reach our fullest potential. Achor also frequently writes for the Harvard Business Review, with other thirty five articles in both the online and print versions of the journal.

Achor launched a two-part online learning class with the Oprah Winfrey network in 2015 after being interviewed for two sessions of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday television series in 2014. Achor was named to Oprah's SuperSoul100 list of visionaries and influential leaders in 2016.

Achor co-authored the children's book Ripple's Effect with his sister, Amy Blankson, as a way to bring positive psychology concepts to children.

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