Dave Shearon

Suppose you were the superintendent of a large urban school system. Or the commanding general of the most powerful army in the world? What if you were me, with the chance to influence the continuing education of thousands of lawyers? What would you do? What are you doing in your sphere of influence? Resilience Program …

Positive psychology is a science, and scientists count and measure. In thinking about how to improve personal well-being or the well-being of a relationship or group, it helps to ask what you can count and how counting might help. Here are some areas to consider.

“Nobody ever changes anyway.” I suspect that many of us had at least a flicker of agreement with these words. And yet we are all changing all the time. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey present a model that shows why people have resistance to change in their book, Immunity to Change. hey also offer …

How does happiness “work?” Here are three quick stories from my own life that have given me a hint about how happiness might create good things in life.

A leader who wants to incorporate the findings of positive psychology into his or her enterprise must “fly high cover” for that process to give it time to happen. Last week, when I taught the first of two one-day sessions for the Principals’ Leadership Academy of Nashville at Vanderbilt University, I emphasized this as a …