JANICE KAPLAN
Former Editor-in-Chief of Parade magazine
Bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries & The Genius of Women
Janice Kaplan is widely known as a journalist, TV producer, and author. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Parade magazine where her upbeat style inspired some 70 million readers every Sunday, and she worked with world leaders and celebrities including Barack Obama, Matt Damon, and Daniel Craig. She proved her talent for appealing to a wide audience as the executive producer of more than 30 television specials for ABC, FOX and other networks and as the deputy editor of TV Guide Magazine.
Janice has written fifteen popular books including the New York Times bestseller The Gratitude Diaries: How A Year Looking On the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life. The internationally acclaimed title is the basis for her wise, funny, and down-to-earth talk on how to bring gratitude into everyday life. Her newest book What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind is being called “a master class in what makes us happy.” Her new talk on using body-mind connections to increase happiness and well-being is filled with unexpected insights and joyous surprises. Janice graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and has appeared regularly on television, including the Today show, Good Morning America, and CBS This Morning.
Speech topics
The Mind-Body Approach to Happiness
Taking a completely new approach to happiness, bestselling author Janice Kaplan shows the unexpected ways our bodies influence our attitudes. With humor and interactivity, she reveals how a cup of coffee can make you kinder (it has nothing to do with the caffeine), why you’ll be healthier if you keep fewer tissue boxes around, and why letting off steam will backfire. Audiences will discover new ways to listen to the messages of their bodies, leading to greater creativity, success, and joy.
The Genius of Women
Extraordinary women have managed to shine in every generation, and in this inspiring talk, Janice Kaplan describes how they overcame obstacles and unconscious bias. Drawing on women we know and love like RBG and Oprah, and those we should know but don’t, such as Fei-Fei Li and Frances Arnold, she explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system--and celebrates the women past and present who have triumphed anyway. In talking about genius, she offers a blueprint for success for all women.
The Gratitude Diaries: How Looking On the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
After overseeing a major national survey on gratitude, Janice Kaplan spent a year living more gratefully. From both extensive research and personal experience, she describes how gratitude can improve every aspect of life including marriage, career, and health. She explains how appreciating your spouse changes the neurons of your brain and why saying thanks helps CEOs succeed. With warmth and wit, she inspires an audience to think positively and start living their own best year ever.
Books
What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
Happiness isn't just a state of mind. It's also a state of body.
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World
We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men?
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work and health.
How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life
New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan examines the phenomenon of luck--and discovers the exciting ways you can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day.