Rick Foster & Greg Hicks

Rick Foster and Greg Hicks have spent the last decade studying people and communities that thrive. Their extensive research has taken them from the boardrooms of Manhattan to small medical centers in Budapest, and their behavioral roadmap to happiness is being studied by mind-body researchers around the U.S. Research is currently underway with, among others, Mayo Clinic, Wake Forest University Medical Center and The American Heart Association.

With a unique ability to convey life-changing skills, Foster and Hicks are sought after keynote speakers and trainers on leadership, team productivity, happiness and health. They have worked with such clients as General Electric, Kaiser Permanente, Mercedes-Benz, Mayo Clinic, Daimler Chrysler, Chubb & Son, AXA Financial, and Wells Fargo and are on faculty at San Jose State University, The Iowa Community Health Leadership Institute, and the Health Forum's Patient Safety and Healthier Communities Fellowships.

Hicks is the author of LeaderShock — And How to Triumph over It (McGraw-Hill) which reveals a new brand of leadership and was awarded one of Amazon's Best Business Books of 2003. Foster and Hicks' first book, the best-selling How We Choose to Be Happy (PenguinPutnam), was nominated as Best Motivational Book by the prestigous Books for a Better Life and was selected as one of the Book of the Month Club's Best Books of the Year. Available in 10 languages, the book is being used by businesses, hospitals and universities around the world.

Rick and Greg have appeared on dozens of T.V. and radio shows, and have been featured in such magazines as Health, Fitness, Working Mother, Self, Fit, Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Readers' Digest.