Margaret H. Greenberg is the coauthor of the business book Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business (McGraw-Hill, 2013), and a sought after executive coach by Fortune 500 companies. In 1997, after a fifteen year career in corporate Human Resources, she founded The Greenberg Group, a consulting firm dedicated to coaching business leaders and their teams to achieve more than they ever thought possible. A pioneer in the field of positive psychology, Greenberg also designs and leads workshops, webinars, and conferences for business audiences and is an expert on creating strengths-based organizations. Some of her clients include Aetna, Allied World, Hanover Insurance Group, Hospital of Central CT, ING, MassMutual, SNL Financial, The MITRE Corporation, Unum, Visa International, Yankee Energy, and Zurich Financial Services. One of Margaret’s specialties is bringing tools from the new field of positive psychology to boost productivity in the workplace. Her talks at Google, VMware, and other companies have been met with enthusiastic response. Greenberg’s research, “Optimistic Managers and Their Impact on Team Productivity and Employee Engagement”, has been featured in the popular Gallup Management Journal.
Margaret is also the “Positive Business” columnist for Live Happy Magazine, and a regular business contributor for www.PositivePsychologyNews.com. Margaret has also been been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes Online, Entrepreneur Magazine, Executive Travel Magazine, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, The Economic Times, Canada’s Globe and Mail, InPower Women, CEO Blog, and Talent Management Magazine among other publications. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Hartford, a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania, and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a professional certified coach. Greenberg lives in Connecticut with her husband and two dogs. They have two grown daughters. For more information, visit Greenberg’s website at www.TheGreenbergGroup.org and her book website at www.ProfitFromThePositive.com.
Senia Maymin, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford, is a consultant and executive coach whose clients include Google, Intel, and VMware. Maymin runs a coaching network that provides coaching to large technology companies in the Bay area. When entrepreneurs and executives seek far-reaching productivity improvements, they call on Maymin as an executive coach and workshop leader.
Maymin is the coauthor of the business book Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business (McGraw-Hill, 2013) and the co-business columnist for Live Happy Magazine. Maymin has been featured in the media—including PBS’s This Emotional Life, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, and USA Today—primarily for her work as a positive psychology executive coach. Maymin founded and is editor in chief of a research news website featuring more than 1,000 articles by over 100 authors. She has worked in finance on Wall Street and in technology as cofounder and president of two start-ups.
Maymin holds a BA in Math and Economics from Harvard, a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She speaks Russian, French, and Japanese. She lives with her family in California. You can visit the Silicon Valley Change coaches network at www.svchange.com, the book website for Profit from the Positive at www.ProfitFromThePositive.com, the research news website at www.PositivePsychologyNews.com, and Maymin’s website at www.senia.com.