Speaker
Professor Corey Keyes
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University
Biography
Corey Keyes is professor emeritus of Sociology at Emory University where he held the Winship Distinguished Research Professorship. He currently an external scholar in the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Corey was a member of the international MacArthur Foundation Research Networks on Aging and has participated in several National Academies of Science initiatives around the topics of the “human healthspan” and improving national statistics to measure recovery from mental illness. He organized and co-hosted the first Summit of Positive Psychology held in 1999 at the Gallup Organization. He pioneered the study and implementation of mental health as more than the absence of mental illness. His research introduced the concepts of social well-being, flourishing, the two continua model of mental health and illness, and his work is being used to prevent mental illness via the promotion of positive (flourishing) mental health. He is represented by the United Talent Agency and recently (Feb. 2024) published the book entitled “Languishing: How To Feel Alive Again In a World That Wears Us Down” for Crown Publishing, an imprint of Penguin RandomHouse Publishing.