Positive Education and Character Strengths: Creating a ‘Language of Life’ for Schools

Michelle McQuaid is a best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator. With more than a decade of senior leadership experience in large organizations around the world, she’s passionate about translating cutting-edge research from positive psychology and neuroscience, into practical strategies for health, happiness, and business success.

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David Cooperrider, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds two chaired professorships: Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit & the Fairmount Santrol-David L. Cooperrider Professorship in Appreciative Inquiry. Faculty founder and director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, he is also the Honorary Chair of Champlain College’s David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at the Stiller School of Business.

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Dr. Darwish is president and CEO of Mayerson Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming individual, team and organizational performance and exclusive education partner of the VIA Institute, working with schools, universities, organizations and communities to use the science of character strengths to transform cultures. She is an award-winning educator, passionate about the potential of learning.

Contact: darwish.jillian@mayersonacademy.org

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