In Conversation 2025

 Corey Keyes is professor emeritus of Sociology at Emory University where he held the Winship Distinguished Research Professorship. He was a member of the prestigious international MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development and Aging.  He participated the National Academies of Science initiatives about “The Future of Human Healthspan” and workshop on improving national statistics to measure recovery from mental illness.  He organized and co-hosted the first Summit of Positive Psychology held in 1999 at the Gallup Organization. 

Dan Weijers is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato and a founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing. Dan researches wellbeing and the ethics of new technologies from a range of disciplinary perspectives and using a range of methods.

Andreas Krafft holds a doctoral degree in Management Sciences from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), with a special focus on Organizational Psychology, Culture, and Development. He has academic specializations in Social Psychology of Organizations, Work and Health Psychology, and Positive Psychology from the University of Zürich. Andreas is an associate researcher in future studies and a lecturer at the Institute of Systemic Management and Public Governance at the University of St. Gallen.

Dr Suzy Green is a Clinical and Coaching Psychologist (MAPS) and Founder & CEO of The Positivity Institute, a Sydney-based positively deviant organisation dedicated to the research and application of the science of optimal human functioning in organisations and schools.

Shige Oishi is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) and the winner of the 2017 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award, the 2018 Carol and Ed Diener Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology.

Ryan Smith is founder of TruDiagnsotic. TruDiagnostic is a CLIA certified lab and health data company which specializes in understanding and reporting insights found through Epigenetic methylation data. Since starting in 2020, TruDiagnostic has created the largest private epigenetic database in the world with over 130,000 patients tested.