Christine Carter is available to speak to families, schools, businesses, and groups. Christine is a leading happiness expert and an inspiring speaker. She offers important insights about the ways that families, schools, and businesses can structure themselves to promote well-being, emotional intelligence, and happiness. She speaks on a very wide range of topics, always drawing on the latest and most credible brain and social science.

To schedule Dr. Christine Carter for a speaking engagement, please contact Michele Fee Smith at (800) 225-4575.

Example Topics

Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents

With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Dr. Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of child-rearing – how best to discipline, get to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table – as well as the more elusive issues of building healthy friendships and developing emotional intelligence.

Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism – and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate dos and don’ts in action – Christine Carter, PhD, gives parents and teachers practical tips for creating families, schools, and communities that nurture happy children.

By bringing Christine Carter to your school or parent group, you can learn how to raise your children’s emotional intelligence and help them grow into happy adults.

Happiness Skills Breed Success in Business

Dr. Christine Carter, sociologist and happiness expert at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, will put you in a good mindframe as she discusses the basics of happiness. She’ll explain what skills you need to increase your own happiness and how to build those skills in yourself and the people around you, including your employees and family members. This is a fun, informative, and science-based speech. Participants leave with simple but powerful tools for becoming more creative, productive, and joyful both at work and at home.

Countering the Seventh Deadly Sin: The Science of Kindness

What motivates people to be caring or generous? Is kindness actually a skill that we can teach ourselves? And what do we get when we give? Dr. Christine Carter, sociologist and happiness expert at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, explains what skills you need to increase kindness. She’ll talk about how and why kindness promotes health and happiness, teaching us how to build “kindness skills” in ourselves, our children, and our employees.

Other possible topics include:

• Learning How to Praise Children So That They Succeed
• The Three Most Important Skills for a Life Well-Lived
• Five Happiness Mistakes Parents Make–and How to Avoid Them
• Motivating Kids to do Even Boring Chores–without Bribes, Threats, or Rewards
• Three Ways to Improve Your Marriage Now: Fun and Practical Tips from the Science of Romantic Relationships

To schedule Dr. Christine Carter for a speaking engagement, please contact Michele Fee Smith at (800) 225-4575.