The Annual Business Meeting at NAFA’s Institute & Expo will present incoming NAFA President Ruth Alfson, CAFM<sup>®</sup>, who will speak about NAFA's accomplishments. This promises to be an important session, so we hope to see you there this morning at 8:30. Afterward, join us for a keynote speech from author and inspirational speaker Shawn Achor. Shawn has keyed in on the field of positive
psychology, whereby one’s relationship to the world is dependent on
their viewpoint of it, not from the world’s cumulative effect on the
individual...or, how you view the world affects the world and your
relationship with it. Happy people, engaged individuals, are more likely
to be creative, productive, enthusiastic, and able to accept change,
challenges, and stress. That is exactly the message NAFA wants for our kick-off of the 2015 Institute & Expo.
Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., a Cambridge-based consulting
firm that researches positive outliers — people who are well above
average — to understand where human potential, success and happiness
intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard,
he clearly and humorously describes how to increase happiness and
meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive
transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. Shawn is the
author of The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013), both of which are New York Times best-sellers.
Get ready, because tomorrow’s keynote session will be the return of the OEM Fireside Chat, featuring fleet executives from Chrysler, Ford, GM, and Toyota. They’ll be answering questions submitted by NAFA members just like you, so don’t miss it!