About the Author

Henry G. Brzycki, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of experience providing leadership to the fields of education and psychology. Dr. Brzycki is considered the leading authority on how to produce student mental health and well-being outcomes through schooling. Dr. Brzycki founded The Brzycki Group, where his innovative counseling and psycho-educational programs pioneered positive psychology and strengths-based counseling methods. Dr. Brzycki consults to schools, colleges, foundations, and policy makers on how to realize the potential of people. Most recently he co-founded The Center for the Self in Schools with Elaine Brzycki. The Center's non-profit mission is to impact the psychological, socioemotional, and physical well-being of K-16 students through outreach programs, professional development, and self-knowledge curricula. Dr. Brzycki earned his M.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. He is co-author with Elaine Brzycki of the bestselling book Student Success in Higher Education: Developing the Whole Person through High-Impact Practices. He is also author of a best-selling academic book, The Self in Schooling: Theory and Practice-How to Create Happy, Healthy, Flourishing Children in the 21st Century, which captures his insights and experiences as a counselor, teacher, and thought leader, and offers a breakthrough model for transforming people's lives, counseling and teaching and learning best practices, and our society. Elaine J. Brzycki, Ed.M., co-authored Student Success in Higher Education: Developing the Whole Person through High-Impact Practices, which offers a breakthrough model for transforming people's lives through educational best practices. Elaine is Co-founder of The Brzycki Group & The Center for the Self in Schools, Brzycki currently serves on the Board to lead outreach and strategically guide the future of educational services. Elaine graduated from Wellesley College as a Wellesley Scholar and attended Oxford University in England. She co-developed many of The Brzycki Group's leading programs while earning her Ed.M. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Elaine has more than 25 years of experience as an educator and a higher education administrator. She is committed to empowering young people's self-expression and greatness, and to sharing wisdom between generations.