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Achor received a Bachelor of Arts from and a Master of Arts in Christian and Buddhist Ethics from Harvard Divinity School.
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He authored The Happiness Advantage and founded GoodThink,Incorporated. His TEDxBloomington talk "The Happy Secret to Better Work" is one of the 20-most viewed TED talks. 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.
The company offers consultancy services, seminars, and presentations on positive psychology intended to improve work performance. The team consists of researchers, speakers, and trainers, who deliver information to organizations.
Achor presented at TEDxBloomington, and promoted his products on a KBTC infomercial. His most recent book is Before Happiness, published by Crown in September 2013.
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.
A children"s book Ripple"s Effect was authored with Amy Blankson to bring positive psychology concepts to children (specifically mirror neurons and the ripple effect).
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This book features research that Achor conducted with Ali Crum and Professor Peter Salovey at Yale University at the large Swiss bank Union Bank of Switzerland, which was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology providing evidence that changing one"s mindset about stress changes the physical effects of stress.
