Shawn Achor spent twelve years at Harvard University [winning more than a dozen distinguished teaching awards] and is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success.
His research on mindset made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED Talk is one of the most popular of all time with over 32.7 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn is the author of New York Times best-selling books The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential as well as his immensely popular parable, The Orange Frog.
In particular, Shawn Achor talks about fostering positive leadership in periods of significant change, training your brain to development new positive habits, and the benefits of social support in sustaining happiness and well-being. His research and travels now extend to over 50 countries including nearly half the Fortune 100, as well as places like the Pentagon, impoverished schools in Africa, and the White House. It also includes substantial research in healthcare and education and the idea of “creating resilient cultures” where resource depletion, compulsory performance requirements and high stress levels create near industrywide angst.
His findings have been published in the top psychology journal for work he did at UBS in partnership with Yale University to transform how stress impacts the body, and he did a two-hour interview with Oprah at her house to discuss his mission to bring positive psychology to the world.
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For over two decades, the principles of International Thought Leader Network (ITLN) have worked on the forefront of organizational advancement in collaboration with the world’s most distinguished thought leaders to deliver big ideas and best practices to a global workforce.
ITLN, in exclusive partnership with Shawn Achor, assists organizations around the world in bringing happiness research to life at work and in education . . . through research partnerships, training, and large-scale interventions.
Utilizing more than a decade of applied research in positive psychology led by Shawn Achor, ITLN provides proven solutions, helping individuals and organizations to overcome both the mental and emotional barriers to change, leading to more positive, adaptive cultures and a healthier workforce.
Inresponse to the pandemic, in early 2020 ITLN conduced hundreds of virtual workshops with thousands of participants across the globe, refining and ultimately introducing The Happiness Advantage │ Orange Frog Virtual Workshop to meet the market need for mental health solutions and social connection in a time of crisis.
Today, ITLN and Achor have created the largest and most successful positive psychology training for organizations and educators in the world. This work impacts every dimension of human potential performance, intelligence, creativity, leadership ability and health – in an increasingly interconnected world where our biggest potential lies in our ability to influence others.
The Happiness Advantage │ Orange Frog Workshop™ and its accompanying parable by Shawn Achor, The Orange Frog, are designed to deliver key lessons from The Happiness Advantage while also serving as a rallying language for teams, organizations, and individuals to provide the foundation for sustained positive behavioral change.
The HAOF offering teaches the science of peak performance based on the seven actionable principles from The Happiness Advantage and provides an engaging sustainable approach to enhancing joy, optimism, resilience and well-being at the individual, team and organization level.
Applying the latest research-based techniques from the field of positive psychology, the workshop brings The Happiness Advantage research to life directly confronting and rewriting the prevailing [negative] social script, providing a narrative pathway for people to reach a more positive mindset, attain higher levels of optimism and deepen social connection.
Workshop participants learn the practices of resilient leaders, they become more adaptable and develop a capacity to “see” more opportunities which leads to better results. This happiness advantage includes higher engagement levels, increased levels of optimism and well-being, greater productivity, and reduced levels of stress. Best yet, happiness is contagious.
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