Keynote Speakers
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Marc Brackett Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. His grant-funded research focuses on the role of Emotional Intelligence in learning, decision making, relationship quality, wellbeing, performance, and organizational climate. Marc is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 1000 public, charter, and private schools across the United States and in other countries, including Australia, England, Italy, Mexico, and Spain. RULER infuses Emotional Intelligence into the fabric of a school through training for school leaders, educators and staff, students, and families, and has been shown to enhance wellbeing, academic performance, and school climate. |
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Marisa Salanova Marisa Salanova is full professor in Positive Organizational Psychology at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain. She is also Director of WANT-Research Team High Performance Group. Currently is salient President of the Spanish Society of Positive Psychology (SEPP). She has about 300 national and international publications on occupational health psychology (job stress, burnout, technostress, workaholism ...) and more recently she has focused on Positive Psychology applied to work with publications on work engagement, flow at work , self-efficacy, positive and healthy organizations and organizational resilience. She has published in journals such as Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Anxiety, Stress & Coping, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, Work & Stress, Group & Organizational Management, among others. She is actively involved in competitive projects and public funded grants doing also consultancy and advicement to companies on applied positive psychology and development of human resources. She is a member of the editorial board of journals: Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Behavior, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Journal of industrial and organizational psychology, Psicothema and Anxiety and Stress. In addition to her academic work and research, for several years she started a project of dissemination of Positive Psychology outside academia, to share scientific knowledge and to help people and organizations to live more fulfilling and meaningful life and be happier. |
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Moïra Mikolajczak Moïra Mikolajczak received her Ph.D. from the University of Louvain in 2006. She did her post-doc with James Gross at Stanford University, California, and she is now Professor of Emotion and Health Psychology at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Her main line of research concerns Emotional Intelligence, which she studies from both fundamental and applied perspectives. Her fundamental research aims to understand the biological and behavioral pathways by which Emotional Intelligence influences health. Her applied research seeks to determine whether and how Emotional Intelligence can be improved in adults, and which are the consequences of this improvement for people's psychological, somatic and social adjustment. She is the author of numerous scientific articles on Emotional Intelligence and the editor of several reference handbooks in French on emotional competence and emotion regulation. |
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Pablo Fernández Berrocal Dr. Pablo Fernández-Berrocal is Professor of Psychology at the University of Malaga. He is the founder and director of the Emotion Laboratory at the University of Malaga and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Emotional Intelligence, as well as of several other R&D projects related to the evaluation and development of Emotional Intelligence. He has co-authored 23 books including, among others, “Corazones Inteligentes (2002)”, “Autocontrol emocional (2002)”, “Desarrolla tu Inteligencia Emocional (2004)”, “Manual de Inteligencia Emocional (2007)”, “From Neurons to Happiness: Ten proposals using emotional intelligence (2015)” and “Programa INTEMO+. Mejorar la inteligencia Emocional de los adolescentes (2016)”. He was the organizer of the 1st International Congress on Emotional Intelligence (Malaga, 2007) and in addition, since 2012, he has been vice-president of the International Society for Emotional Intelligence. He is an active collaborator with international researchers such as Peter Salovey, Marc Brackett, James Gross, and Simon Baron-Cohen. He is a regular contributor to numerous international scientific publications. Currently, he is developing programmes to improve Emotional Intelligence in a variety of environments and organizations related to education, health and business. Twitter: @pabloberrocal |
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Paulo Nuno Lopes Consultant, lecturer and researcher. Trained in Economics (B.A.) and Psychology (Ph.D.) at Yale University. At Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, he teaches in executive education programs and The Lisbon MBA, and coordinates the Leading and Energizing Teams program. His consulting and teaching work bridges three areas: leadership, teams and motivation; creativity and innovation; and change management. His research focuses on emotional intelligence in organizations, with implications for leadership development. In his earlier career, he worked in business, journalism, and documentary film, and was Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey in the UK. Website: https://www.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt |
