My Track-Record

• UK's first Lecturer in Positive Psychology and The Science of Well-Being, at Cambridge University (2001-2008).
• 100 weekly columns for The Times as 'Dr FeelGood on The Science of Happiness', 2003-2005.
• The lifestyle columnist, 'Dr Know', for The Financial Times Saturday Magazine (2002).
• Guest expert appearances on BBC Radio 4's Today and the Libby Purvis MidWeek show.
• Performance-Coach & Psychotherapist to stressed Airline Pilots referred to me from Stansted, and to City of London Investment Bankers.
• 75-minute 'masterclasses' for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development at their annual and London conferences for the past 4 years.
• Author, The Rough Guide to Happiness, best-seller for Penguin/The Rough Guides, 2009.
• Training presentations, Keynotes and After-Dinner Speeches for the likes of Diageo Sales-teams, Proctor & Gamble, Mundipharma, the BBC, and BUPA's top clients.
• 4-day tour of Northern Ireland for the Health Education Authority, to present to healthcare professionals (invited back three years running).
• Founder of Trail-Blazers, a therapeutic career-mentorship programme for teenagers in a high-security prison www.trail-blazers.org.uk that I created in HMYOI Feltham in 1998, with General Lord David Ramsbotham as its Patron, and which 12 years on resides at HMYOI Aylesbury.
• Founder-director www.YoungLivesUK.com a charitable project in which I interviewed 100 highly accomplished individuals (such as Kate Adie, Martha Lane Fox, Nick Hornby, Bill Bryson, and Gary Lineker).
• Keynote-speaker & workshop-host to the 400 members of HR Norway during their 3-day annual conference November 2010, near Oslo.
• Keynote presenter at UK's leading Headteacher conferences; and main-speaker and workshop-leader at 3-day conference for 250 Deputy-Heads of Independent Schools of South Africa, Cape Town, October 2010.
• One hour's presentation for 300 Greek CEOs in Athens about how they and their employees can maintain All-Round Well-being during severe financial troubles (May 2011)
• At the annual conference of Impact International Management Consultancy (The Sunday Times top 100 employer) I delivered a 60-minute keynote and 90-minute workshop, and was subsequently invited to give an additional 40-minute phone seminar/webinar, all on the subject of "helping life going well" (June 2011).
• 75-minute presentation to leaders in business and industry on the Cambridge University Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership; my talk was on: "Sustainable Human Well-being in Harmony with The Natural World" (August 2011).

My Academic CV and Affiliations in brief

• Master of Arts in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia)
• Graduate of the National Film & Television School screen-writing summer course
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Criminology (Open University)
• MPhil in Criminology (Jesus College, Cambridge)
• Ph.D. in Psychology (Jesus College, Cambridge)
• Diploma in Brief Therapy (European Therapy Studies Institute)
• Graduate Diploma in Clinical & Applied Hypnosis (University College London)
• Chartered by the British Psychological Society
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
• Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine

Other Information

Cambridge University Lecturer in 'Applying the Skills of Well-being'

This course evolved naturally from Positive Psychology and The Science of Well-being, which I have taught at Cambridge University for 7 years. I now offer insight-lectures and training-workshops to educational, healthcare and business organisations the world over.

Well-being Coach & Therapist

Many of my clients are pilots from Stansted Airport wishing to refresh and develop the skills which enable them to maintain their reliable high-performance in extremely demanding roles. The techniques we work on together can apply to all of us in every walk of our personal and professional lives.

Weekly columnist for The Times

As 'Dr FeelGood on The Science of Happiness', I wrote over 100 columns between 2003 and 2005.

In the two years following, this led to a monthly page for The Australian newspaper.

Scientific Work

Read more about my Scientific Research and the Royal Society's three-day conference

Voluntary Work

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Author of several books about Well-being

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Professional Associations