Shawn Achor

What Are His Conferences Like?

Shawn Achor’s conferences are dynamic, entertaining, and deeply inspiring. With his charismatic and humorous style, Achor offers strategies based on positive psychology research to optimize performance, reduce stress, and build a positive work culture. Targeted at business, academic, and high-performance audiences, his talks offer practical methods to implement the “happiness advantage” and improve personal and professional life, showing how happiness can be a powerful driver of individual and collective success.

Selection of Conferences

The Ripple Effect: Making Positive Change Easier

In this talk, Shawn Achor explores how changes in mindset and behavior can have a positive ripple effect on an entire team and organization. Based on studies on mirror neurons and real-life cases, Shawn shows how a positive “domino effect” can boost performance and create a more collaborative, resilient work culture.

The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance

Drawing from his book *The Happiness Advantage*, Shawn explains why prioritizing well-being is essential for professional success. By analyzing top performers in Fortune 500 companies and universities, Achor reveals strategies to activate a “happiness advantage” that optimizes performance and job satisfaction for any team.

Positive Genius: Key to Raising Success and Sustaining Change

In this conference based on his book *Before Happiness*, Shawn shows how our mental framework impacts our likelihood of success. With an innovative focus on neuroscience and studies at Harvard, Achor helps leaders redesign their perception of reality to boost their own and their team’s performance, creating a lasting positive impact.