Life Strategist, International Speaker, and CEO of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute
Valorie Burton is founder and CEO of the Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute. Her message helps you build resilience and happiness and has a research-based emphasis in the pioneering field of applied positive psychology – the study of what happens when things go right with us.
Valorie is the author of over a dozen books, including the USA Today Bestseller Rules of Resilience, Successful Women Think Differently, and Brave Enough to Succeed. Valorie has been a regular guest on the Today Show and numerous media outlets and has spoken for hundreds of organizations, ministries and government entities, including Google, Apple, NASA, Bank of America and the US military.
She was named to the "Coaches50," a list of the 50 most influential executive coaches in the world by Thinkers50, a global ranking of leadership thinkers. She founded The CaPP Institute in 2010, and the company has served clients and coaches worldwide with coach training and resilience training. Her innovative coach training methodology has been translated into eight languages and used by Maxwell Leadership with its nearly 60,000 team members in more than 150 countries. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), a credential granted by the International Coaching Federation to about 4% of credentialed coaches worldwide.
Valorie has a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in journalism from Florida A&M University and a BA from Florida State University. She and her husband Jeff have three children and live on a horse farm near Atlanta, Georgia.