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A leading expert on health psychology, well-being, and resilience argues that happiness is the key to fast tracking our professional and personal success.Everyone wants to be happy and successful. And yet the pursuit of both has never been more elusive. As work and personal demands rise, we try to keep up by juggling everything better, moving faster, and doing more. While we might succeed in the short term, it comes at a cost to our well-being, relationships, and, paradoxically, our productivity. In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppala, the science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common but outdated notions about success.
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EMMA SEPPÄLÄ, Ph.D is Science Director of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the author of The Happiness Track (HarperOne, 2016) . She is also Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Lecturer at Yale College where she teaches The Psychology of Happiness. She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization and teaches in the Yale School of Management's Executive Education program. She has spoken at TedX Sacramento, TEDx Hayward, and companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Bain & Co, Ernst & Young, and a United States Congressional Hearing. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and Scientific American Mind. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fulfillment Daily, a popular news site dedicated to the science of happiness.
Her work and research have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, VOGUE, ELLE, CBSNews, Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, U.S. World and News Report, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Inc, Huffington Post, ABC News, Business Insider, SELF, GLAMOUR. She regularly appears on Good Morning America. She has also been featured in ABC News, Fox News, Huffington Post Live and TIME/MONEY and is featured in the documentary film The Altruism Revolution and What You Do Matters.
Her research on yoga-based breathing for military veterans returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan was highlighted in Free the Mind, a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Phie Ambo, as well as Amy Cuddy's New York Times bestselling book Presence and Representative Tim Ryan's book Mindful Nation.
She is the recipient of a number of research grants and service awards including the James W. Lyons Award from Stanford University for founding Stanford's first academic class on the psychology of happiness and teaching many well-being programs for Stanford students.
She graduated from Yale (BA) , Columbia (MA) , and Stanford (PhD) . Originally from Paris, France, she is a native speaker of French, English, and German.
