Shawn Achor
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Shawn Achor" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images (July 2014) Shawn Achor Born 1977/1978 (age 36–37) Waco, Texas, U.S. Education BA, Harvard University MA, Harvard Divinity School Occupation Business consultant, psychological researcher, author, and presenter Organization GoodThinkInc., Institute of Applied Positive Research Known for Positive Psychology, finding success through happiness Notable work(s) The Happiness Advantage, The Orange Frog, Before Happiness Website www.goodthinkinc.com Shawn Achor (born 1977 or 1978) is an American educator, author, and speaker known for his advocacy of positive psychology. He is best known for his research reversing the formula of success leading to happiness—his research shows that happiness in fact leads to success. Achor spent 12 years studying what makes people happy at Harvard University. He later authored The Happiness Advantage and founded the Institute of Positive Research and GoodThinkInc. His TEDx talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work" is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks. Shawn is frequently sought out by media outlets as an expert on the topic of happiness and productivity.