30^th World Summit on Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Philosophy March 18-19, 2019 Chicago, Illinois, USA | DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago North Shore

Dr Elia Gourgouris is an international Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, and a Leadership Consultant. He is the author of the #1 Best-Selling book, 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness. He has also published over 120 articles for various newspapers and magazines, including the Huffington Post. Dr Elia is the president of The Happiness Center – an organization dedicated to creating personal success and happiness. Over the last 25-plus years, he has been a passionate promoter of Happiness and Wellness both on an individual and on the Corporate level! His workshops, courses, books and Coaching have helped thousands of people achieve happiness and fulfillment, both in their careers and in their personal lives. He received his B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California Graduate Institute.

Happiness, Corporate Wellness and Leadership!

Asoka Jinadasa is a UK Chartered Engineer with a US Ph.D. in Business Strategy who has never won any awards up to his 60th year. However over the past 11 years, by using his own methods described above for slowing and reversing ageing, he became 20 years younger than his 71 years, regained drug-free natural health, improved his physical condition and mental abilities to win prestigious awards in areas that were new to him: Human resources, Corporate communication, Media advertising, and Brand marketing. In his 70th year, he self-healed a heart condition (leaky mitral value and insufficient blood flow), made keynote speeches and presentations at 13 conferences in 5 countries, and won 4 global awards for his innovative concepts for unleashing human potential as explained in his award-winning self-coaching book, Flying Penguin.

Leadership, Human Potential Development, Employee Engagement, Image/Self-Esteem, Motivation, Innovation.

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Personality Disorders