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Paul Krismer

Employee Engagement Biography

Fuel up your audience. Get them excited to do their best work. Make them feel inspired and put a lift in their step. Learn the serious business of positive emotions!

Paul Krismer teaches the practical application of positive emotions to achieve corporate and personal excellence.

Paul is a noted public speaker and trainer. His authentic and passionate commitment to his subject matter shines through his work. Playful and captivating storytelling complements his intelligent and accessible presentation of the science of success. His teaching is powerful, authoritative, and convincing. At the same time, Paul is exceptionally practical, providing tools that audiences and entire workforces can immediately use. 

Paul Krismer has a proven track record as an inspirational leader. For twenty years, he has served in senior management roles—overseeing hundreds of employees, multi-million dollar projects, and cheerfully growing future leaders. As a Certified Executive Coach, Paul is appreciated for his kind-hearted, yet relentless pursuit of the client’s best life. Helping people to reach greater happiness and success is his trademark promise.

Paul is the best-selling author of Whole Person Happiness: How to be Well in Body, Mind and Spirit. As a teacher of cutting edge positive psychology, he is truly a “Happiness Expert”.

Paul is a proud member of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

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Health & Safety Biography

Paul has a proven 20-year track record as a Safety and Disability Management leader.

Within a workers’ compensation system, Paul excelled in multi-faceted senior management roles. Early in his career, he spearheaded a total reform of underwriting systems at WorksafeBC, resulting in the creation of a pricing model that directly reflects safety outcomes.

Paul has led groups of more than 200 professional disability management staff. As an Executive Account Manager and team lead, Paul served as a consultant to high risk and high claims volume employers and industries, introducing innovative and powerful interventions. Few leaders have as much, and as varied, experience in the field of workers compensation as Paul does.

As a public speaker and trainer, Paul’s authentic and passionate commitment to his subject matter shines through. Each presentation is packed with useful information and practical tools based on the science of positive emotions. Accented by playful and captivating storytelling, Paul’s presentations are also highly engaging. His teaching is powerful, authoritative and convincing. He gets the point across that increased happiness has serious outcomes—improved safety and reduced disability.

His best-selling book, “Whole Person Happiness” gives everyone access to his expertise. As a teacher of cutting edge positive psychology, he is truly a “Happiness Expert”.

Paul is a proud member of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. He is the founder and CEO of the Happiness Experts Company.

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Jackson Kerchis

I am a speaker, author, and consultant – above all I’m a teacher at heart. My life’s work is to study and teach happiness. While I’ve worked with many groups, from college students to first responders, my focus is on happier work. I work at the intersection of businesses/organizations and happiness to help leaders bring out the best in their people.

My mission is to serve 1,000 organizations by 2025, because Happiness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and to the world.

I’m told I have a rather unique background: I’m a former management consultant, startup executive, Zen monk, college instructor, and I might be the first person to have majored in happiness. This unordinary experience is what helps me deliver extraordinary results.

My story began in college as a future management consultant. I had an inside track to the MBB (top 3 consulting firms) and was running a fintech startup (www.studentfi.org). In classic college fashion, I had a mini-existential crisis about what I should do with my life. I realized that while success, earnings, and achievement are wonderful – what we really want is happiness.

So I majored in it. I created my own degree and first ever happiness course at the University of Alabama. My work won a Lightbulb research grant and was recognized by the International Positive Psychology Association. After college I continued my study with four months as a Zen monk (with ~1,000 hours of meditation).

As a Partner at Happiness Means Business, I have worked with sales leaders from Vivint Home Security, to school board officers, to U.S. infantry commanders. I am also an executive coach certified by Emory University. I serve several senior leaders including the former CFO of Michigan Children’s hospital. My digital footprint has reached +100,000 people and I’ve spoken to hundreds of leaders across the country.

I make the art and science of happiness entertaining and practical. I believe in a high challenge – high support relationship. Every training I do will demand the audience reflect deeply and commit to action. They will connect with the best version of themselves in the content and leave feeling happier.

I’ve written two books – How to Stick to Meditation: The Science of Habit Meets The Art of Mindfulness and Beyond Profit & Productivity. Both of which offer science-based practices for happier work and life. I’m a member of the National Speakers Association. And I’m a regular podcast guest and contributor (Fast Company, Live Happy, TIDE Talks 28).

In my spare time, I serve a local non-profit teaching mindfulness to first responders and at-risk community members and I’m a Director at the 4 Day Week US advocacy nonprofit. On weekends you’ll find me goofing around with old friends, working out, and wandering the western PA countryside.

Stop by my weekly mindful yoga class if you’re ever in town.

Please reach out and I promise you a truly one of a kind and life-changing experience for your people.

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