BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20261110T223000Z DTEND:20261111T003000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Pruitt Center Virtual Speaker: Shawn Achor – The Power of Belief DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Pruitt Center Fall 2026 Virtual Speaker\, Shawn Achor! Conventional wisdom holds that success is determined by talent\, intelligence or the circumstances we happen to land in. After more than a decade of research at Harvard and work in 51 countries\, Shawn Achor found that the greatest predictor of our future success is something else entirely: the set of beliefs we hold about the world around us. Beliefs are not passive. They shape what we notice\, how we interpret setbacks\, how much energy and persistence we bring to hard problems and whether we see a challenge as fixed or changeable. And because beliefs spread through teams the same way emotions do\, a single person's belief about what is possible can raise or quietly cap the ceiling for an entire organization. In his newest book\, The Power of Beliefs\, Shawn demonstrates that these beliefs are far more malleable than we assume\, and that changing them is one of the fastest levers we have for changing performance. In his talk\, Shawn uses research and case studies to show practical ways individuals and teams can surface the beliefs limiting them\, reframe challenges as changeable\, expand what they believe is possible and sustain those shifts under pressure. Register at uwsuper.edu/ShawnAchor X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\nJoin us for the Pruitt Center Fall 2026 Virtual Speaker\, Shawn Achor! Conventional wisdom holds that success is determined by talent\, intelligence or the circumstances we happen to land in. After more than a decade of research at Harvard and work in 51 countries\, Shawn Achor found that the greatest predictor of our future success is something else entirely: the set of beliefs we hold about the world around us. Beliefs are not passive. They shape what we notice\, how we interpret setbacks\, how much energy and persistence we bring to hard problems and whether we see a challenge as fixed or changeable. And because beliefs spread through teams the same way emotions do\, a single person&rsquo\;s belief about what is possible can raise&mdash\;or quietly cap&mdash\;the ceiling for an entire organization. In his newest book\, The Power of Beliefs\, Shawn demonstrates that these beliefs are far more malleable than we assume\, and that changing them is one of the fastest levers we have for changing performance. In his talk\, Shawn uses research and case studies to show practical ways individuals and teams can surface the beliefs limiting them\, reframe challenges as changeable\, expand what they believe is possible and sustain those shifts under pressure. Register at uwsuper.edu/ShawnAchor LOCATION:Virtual on Zoom: Register at uwsuper.edu/ShawnAchor to receive the Zoom link. UID:e.3002.21687 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260913T145009Z URL:https://www.superiorchamber.org/events/details/pruitt-center-virtual-speaker-shawn-achor-the-power-of-belief-21687 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR