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Emma Seppälä, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Author, Speaker

Author and Yale lecturer Emma Seppälä, Ph.D. empowers leaders with her expertise in happiness and relationships. Shaping future leaders at Yale's Women's Leadership Program, her acclaimed books "The Happiness Track" and "Sovereign" offer research-backed insights. Seppälä also champions compassion research at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education as the Science Director.

Resources by Emma Seppälä, Ph.D.

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3 Ways Extraordinary Leaders Motivate Employees

Given the extraordinary low levels of engagement in the U.S. workforce — a recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of

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How to Tackle the Loneliness Epidemic

About a month ago, a group of about 20 men—all fathers in their 30s and 40s—gathered at a home in

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How Self-Love Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

Whether we’re high power execs or stay-at-home moms, self-criticism is a tendency that many people have. In fact we often

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3 Ways to Take Care of Others Without Burning Yourself Out

In our over-stressed world, many health care providers, social workers, and caregivers are suffering from slow yet painful burnout. Many

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5 Reasons Successful CEOs Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness is quickly following yoga in becoming a billion-dollar industry. It’s no surprise, then, that the popularity of mindfulness meditation

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5 Ways Email Impacts Your Thoughts and Emotions

Have you noticed that checking your email impacts how you think and feel? It does so in 5 important ways.

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Get Ahead With Compassion: Nice Guys Really Do Finish First

To many people, the idea of compassionate leadership is touchy-feely at best and bad management at worst. But new research

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3 Incredible Ways Nature Supports Your Happiness and Success

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace

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The 3 Top Secrets of Master Communicators

When Jared walked into a meeting to discuss a new marketing approach for a product, the conversation didn’t play out

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3 Foolproof Ways to Prevent Work Burnout, Backed by Science

Our culture is obsessed with productivity. But research shows that stressing ourselves out over an ever-expanding to-do list actually works

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3 Things Extraordinary Leaders Do

Given the extraordinary low levels of engagement in the U.S. workforce — a recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of