Emma Seppälä, Ph.D.
Emma Seppälä is a best-selling author, Yale lecturer, and international keynote speaker. She teaches executives at the Yale School of Management and is Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership program. A psychologist and research scientist by training, her expertise is the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, and social connection. Her best-selling book The Happiness Track has been translated into dozens of languages. She is a contributor to The Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, MindBodyGreen, Forbes, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and more. Seppälä is also the Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. SOVEREIGN was published by Hay House Publishers in 2024 in North America and in seven other countries and languages in 2025 .
