Beata Souders, MSPP, ACC

Beata Souders is a positive psychology practitioner, coach, and writer based in New York City, currently working as a coach at BetterUp. She brings 20 years of corporate HR and operational experience to her work on motivation science, flow and optimal performance, and workplace well-being, helping overachievers and their organizations develop human potential.

Beata is a PsyD candidate in clinical psychology at California Southern University, where her dissertation research explores how flow states may protect psychotherapists from burnout. She has presented her flow research at the World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association in Montreal and the European Conference on Positive Psychology in Budapest, and has facilitated workshops on flow, the PERMA model, and employee engagement for corporate and educational institutions.

She is a founding member of the Association of Positive Psychology Coaches and an active member of the International Positive Psychology Association, the European Flow Researchers Network, the International Coaching Federation, and the American Psychological Association. When not working, she can be found hunting for inspiration and white noise all over the Big Apple.

Positive psychology’s dynamic growth and rapid evolution are precisely in step with the exponential change we’re experiencing and offer hope and haven from the escalating demands, a better home for our ever more complex psyche.

Perhaps the second renaissance of human potential where we match our internal power to our technological advancements in strive to live up to our potential by utilizing strengths and limitless capacity for growth.

The major paradigm on which many theories of positive psychology rest is that we are a species that has evolved beyond mere survival and has moved into a stage where we all can focus our energies toward thriving as individuals and as members of society.

Flourishing is no longer reserved for the privileged few who have material resources, or the intellectual elite or academic or spiritual gurus who may have all the answers. Most of us are not satisfied with just surviving. We’ve graduated with honors. As we harness the powers within and without, our reality can reflect our newfound understanding through better ways of being in the world.