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Through licensing and consulting agreements, we provide our clients with research-backed products and services. Our research and development partners include:

Dr. Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman, Ph.D. is the father of Positive Psychology. For forty years he has worked on learned helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Positive Psychology Center, and was President of the American Psychological Association, 1998. Dr. Seligman’s bibliography includes twenty-one books and 200 articles on motivation and personality. Among his better-known works are the best-selling Authentic Happiness (Free Press, 2002), Learned Optimism (Knopf, 1991), What You Can Change & What You Can't (Knopf, 1993), The Optimistic Child (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), Helplessness (Freeman, 1975, 1993) and Abnormal Psychology (Norton, 1982, 1988, 1995, with David Rosenhan). His most recent book is Character Strengths and Virtues: A handbook and classification, co-authored with Christopher Peterson (Oxford, 2004).

Dr. Seligman is the recipient of two Distinguished Scientific Contribution awards from the American Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the American Association for Applied Psychology and Prevention, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He received his A.B., Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude (Philosophy), 1964; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Psychology), 1967; Ph.D., Honoris causa, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris causa, Massachusetts College of Professional Psychology, 1997; Ph.D., Honoris causa, Complutense University, Spain, 2003; and Ph.D., Honoris causa, University of East London, 2006.

Dr. Karen Reivich
Karen Reivich, Ph.D. completed her psychology training at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Martin Seligman, with whom she co-authored The Optimistic Child (Harper Collins). Dr. Reivich is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychology, where she co-directs a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the prevention of depression and promotion of resilience in school children. Along with Dr. Andrew Shatté, Dr. Reivich co-authored The Resilience Factor (Broadway Books) that describes skills for increasing one’s resilience and improving overall productivity and mental health. Dr. Reivich teaches in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania and lectures extensively to educators, parents, and corporations on the topics of resilience, depression-prevention, and Positive Psychology.

Center for Technology Transfer, University of Pennsylvania
The mission of University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer ("CTT") is to encourage the disclosure of new inventions, as well as to obtain and manage patents, copyrights and trademarks derived from the University's academic research enterprise.

CTT promotes Penn’s core academic mission and research enterprise by forging strategic relationships with companies and private equity investors to convert Penn’s vast research capacity into commercial activity.

Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania
The Positive Psychology Center promotes research, training, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology. This field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play. The Center is central in the administration of the Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP), a pioneering graduate degree in this growing field.