Emma Seppälä
Faculty Director of Women's Leadership Program, Lecturer in Management at Yale School of Management
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- HEC Paris
- Yale School of Management
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Yale School of Management
EMMA SEPPÄLÄ, Ph.D, is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program. She is also Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, author of The Happiness Track and an international keynote speaker.
She regularly consults with and speaks at companies around the world on positive organizations, happiness at work and social connection. She has addressed companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Bain & Co, and Ernst & Young. She was an invited speaker at a United States Congressional Hearing and has also spoken at TedX Sacramento and TEDx Hayward.
She writes for Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, TIME, QUARTZ, Business Insider, Stanford Medicine, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Greater Good Science Center, Scientific American Mind and Spirituality & Health.
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, and the World Economic Forum.
She is a repeat guest on Good Morning America and 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 focuses on well-being, compassion, social connection, complementary and alternative practices, and trauma resilience. Her research on yoga-based breathing for military veterans returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan was highlighted in the documentary Free the Mind.
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 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 and conversant in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
Videos
The Science of Happiness with Dr. Seppälä
Dr. Emma Seppälä on "The Science of Stress, Resilience and Happiness"
Emma Seppälä, Ph.D, Author of The Happiness Track on What Brings Us Happiness
Emma Seppala The Happiness Track Part 2 Audiobook
Intersections, Episode 24: Emma Seppälä and Bill Deresiewicz
Emma Seppala The Happiness Track Part 4 Audiobook
Emma Seppala The Happiness Track Part 1 Audiobook
Emma Seppala The Happiness Track Part 3 Audiobook
How to Breathe Happiness with EMMA SEPPÄLÄ I The Drew Pearlman Show
Emma Seppala The Happiness Track Part 5 Audiobook
Building Resilience in Times of Chaos
Mindful Metal Jacket #68 | Emma Seppala
Breathing happiness | Emma Seppälä | TEDxSacramento
Conversations on Compassion with Emma Seppala, PhD
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