Michelle Gielan
MAPP from UPENN
TX, USMichelle Gielan has spent the past decade researching the link between happiness and success. She is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change and was named one of the Top 10 authors on resilience by Harvard Business Review.
Michelle has worked with hundreds of organizations including AMEX, NASA, Google, Bank of America, and Boston Children's Hospital to measurably raise employee engagement, productivity and happiness at work.
Michelle is an Executive Producer of "The Happiness Advantage" on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah's Happiness course. She formerly served as anchor of The CBS Morning News, and her research has received attention from dozens of media outlets including The Washington Post, FORBES, and The New York Times.
Michelle holds a Master of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Tufts University in Computer Engineering.
Michelle Gielan has spent the past decade researching the link between happiness and success. She is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change and was named one of the Top 10 authors on resilience by Harvard Business Review.
Michelle has worked with hundreds of organizations including AMEX, NASA, Google, Bank of America, and Boston Children's Hospital to measurably raise employee engagement, productivity and happiness at work.
Michelle is an Executive Producer of "The Happiness Advantage" on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah's Happiness course. She formerly served as anchor of The CBS Morning News, and her research has received attention from dozens of media outlets including The Washington Post, FORBES, and The New York Times.
Michelle holds a Master of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Tufts University in Computer Engineering.
Michelle Gielan Talk Overview
Michelle has two main areas of research she speaks about during her keynotes: The science of happiness and resilience. Michelle shares the research she began a decade ago at UPENN on the power of an optimistic mindset to fuel success and well-being. She highlights studies she's published in Harvard Business Review on how a positive mindset can drive a 31% increase in productive energy, 37% higher sales, 40% higher likelihood of a promotion, 3x greater creativity...
The Optimism Quotient: Strengthening a Mindset That Fuels Happiness and Success
An engaged, optimistic mindset is a massive advantage in the modern economy and one of the single biggest drivers of success. Optimism is defined as the expectation of good things to happen and the belief that our behavior matters in the face of challenges. Drawing from research Michelle began more than a decade ago at UPENN, she will empower your audience with practical, research-based strategies to train the brain for greater optimism to reap benefits including a 31% increase in...
Broadcasting Happiness: Creating Success Through Positive Engagement
Resilient Optimism: Strengthening a Mindset that Fuels Well-being Amid Uncertainty
COVID-19 is has massively disrupted nearly every aspect of life, taking a huge toll on well-being. A majority of Americans report feeling more anxious, stressed, disconnected and uncertain than ever before. In this midst of these unprecedented times, strengthening our ability to respond to challenges with resilient optimism has been shown to scientifically fuel well-being and happiness to give us calm in the midst of the storm. Research from the fields of neuroscience and positive...
Resilient to the Core: How to Scientifically Improve your Response to Stress to Boost Performance
A mindset hijacked by stress is one of the biggest barriers to high performance for leaders and their teams, yet new research shows 91% of people could improve their default response to stress using simple, proven habits. The antidote to the weight of change, uncertainty, and non-stop demands is building a resilient, optimistic mindset.
In one of the largest studies on stress of its kind, researcher and bestselling author Michelle Gielan has identified the three...
The Science of Positive Authentic Female Leadership: Using Your Positive Mindset to Fuel Success
In our corporate culture, it can sometimes be difficult to be both female and positive without fear of being perceived as "pollyannish" or out of touch with reality. In this talk, Michelle shatters the misconceptions about positive leadership using science to show how to not just avoid prejudice, but to also change the mindsets of those around you to drive success. Michelle describes funny and poignant stories she experienced while one of the top female media professionals, as well as from...
