Shawn Achor - Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. One of the favorite speakers at UP 2008, he is coming in from Boston to talk to us about "The Science of the Ripple Effect."
Louise Parsley - Louise began writing about family life in community newspapers and magazines when her three children were young and she realized she needed an outlet to preserve her sanity. In Revelations in the Rearview Mirror: One Mother's Hard-won and Hilarious Epiphanies on the Road to the Empty Nest she has collected the crowd-pleasing columns that cover the career life of a mother. Winner of the Houston Press Club's Texas Lone Star and Excellence in Journalism Awards, Louise will present "Family Side Up" on how laughter is a natural buoy when you're drowning in your own gene pool.
Achor, who is from Waco (Sic 'em), made us turn to the person next to us and stare into their eyes for seven seconds straight without showing emotion. When I told my seat mate it was love at first sight he got up and moved. Oh well, I guess it is awkward meeting new people at these big events.
Shout out to PR queen Susan Farb Morris! We talked on Facebook a few hours before the event and then she ended up sitting right in front of me! Didn't know we were both attending either.
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