Jeanine Joy bio

Dr. Jeanine Joy is an inspiring and life-changing author, speaker, trainer, and auto-didactic citizen scientist. Dr. Joy is the author of eight books focused on the development of resilience, mental health, and happiness to reduce stress change lives by improving relationships, and physical and mental health. Her evidence-based, experience-informed strategies integrate many scientific disciplines including emotion regulation, motivation, organizational behavior, positive psychology, organizational behavior, teams, resilience, self-determination, and self-control. She developed The Smart Way™ and is the founder of Happiness 1st Institute.

She named her company Happiness 1st Institute because of research that shows humans do better in every area of life when they are happy first.

She is passionate about sharing research that helps people thrive more.

Her programs, books, and speeches inspire and empower people to fulfill their dreams and enjoy more loving, happy, healthy, and successful lives.
Her interest in understanding why some people thrive in spite of adversity when others flounder led her to the answers she shares. Her hobby is reading scientific journals and finding ways to communicate complex information so it is simple to understand and practical to apply.

She is also a philosopher and weaves science together with wisdom from the great minds throughout history including spiritual and religious teachings, to find the root cause of human thriving.

Whether someone is living a relatively happy life, or living in the depths of depression, her knowledge can help them thrive more.

She pursued her Ph.D. to support her second career as a speaker, author, and trainer. Empowered Employees become Engaged Employees was written as an off-shoot of her dissertation.

She teaches advanced and transformative stress reduction strategies that take advantage of the cutting edge, scientifically defined new definition of the purpose and use of emotions to take emotion regulation where it has never gone before. Her expertise in helping individuals and organizations recognize unhealthy habits of thought and changing them so their neuro-pathways support healthy habits of thought represents a significant breakthrough in mental health promotion and recovery. Her work is also helping combat the epidemic of burnout being experienced in clinicians.

She also teaches individuals overcoming opioid addiction how to reduce stress and the risk of relapse by developing healthy habits of thought.

Jeanine is a futurist who knows the world can be a better place for everyone and is working to create momentum that will make it so for as many people as possible.