Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar

Co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy, creator and instructor of the Certificate in Happiness Studies

An internationally renowned teacher and author in the fields of happiness and leadership.

After graduating from Harvard with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Tal taught two of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history: Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership. He then taught Happiness Studies at Columbia University.

A prolific writer, Tal's books have appeared on best-sellers lists around the world and have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Tal Ben-Shahar consults and lectures to executives in multinational corporations, educational institutions, and the general public. Topics include leadership, education, ethics, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting and mindfulness.

Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is the co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy, as well as the creator and instructor of the Certificate in Happiness Studies and the Happier School programs.
Tal is an avid sportsman and a certified yoga instructor whose work bridges Eastern and Western traditions, ancient wisdom and modern technology, science and art.

Dr. Brian R. Little

Author of "Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being" best seller.

Received his early education in British Columbia and his Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford and an Inaugural Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. He has received major awards for his teaching at Carleton, McGill and Harvard Universities. For four consecutive years he was elected a Favorite Professor by his students at Harvard.

He has been a major innovator in the field of personality assessment and motivation and is the 2020 winner of the Henry A. Murray Award for distinguished research on the study of lives.

He has until recently been a Research Professor in Psychology at Cambridge University and developed and taught a popular course on Personality and Well-Being for the Executive MBA program at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is currently a Senior Fellow in Person-Analytics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Professor Little believes strongly in making the fruits of his research available to the general public. His Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being was an Amazon best seller and his TED talk “Who Are You, Really?” has been viewed on YouTube and TED platforms over 20 million times.