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Growth After Disaster: Going Beyond Resilience
by Shawn Achor 

According to Harvard researcher and author, Shawn Achor, it's not enough to study how happiness flourishes when things are good. We need to know how positive responses can bloom in the aftermath of trauma. In this article, he discusses the principle of "falling up" and how individuals with high optimism and success manage to gain growth, not despite a disaster, but because of it.

Read Shawn Achor’s article, Growth After Disaster: Going Beyond Resilience featured on Harvard Business Review

Shawn Achor joins the SpeakersOffice Team!

We are proud to announce the addition of a new speaker to the SpeakersOffice roster, Shawn Achor. Shawn is the author of The Happiness Advantage, in which he shares the recent scientific breakthroughs in the study of positive psychology. As a Harvard researcher, Shawn's work on happiness and human potential has received attention from the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Forbes, CNN, and NPR. He has spoken in 45 countries to a wide variety of audiences, including bankers on Wall Street, students in Dubai, and CEOs in Zimbabwe.

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