Wellness Wednesday: The Motivation Equation with Richard Koestner
The Motivation Equation: How personal goals can be used to motivate ourselves (and sometimes others) to reach our health goals.
The speaker will explore factors that interfere with our capacity to attain our health goals. Because June is Men's Health Month, he will highlight how recent advances in goal-setting science can perhaps help men break unhealthy habits and replace them with healthy ones. Although the examples will focus on men’s health, the talk is designed to provide practical motivational information for anyone to use in their professional and personal lives.
Dr. Richard Koestner is a professor of Psychology at McGill University. He did his PhD at the University of Rochester, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard.
He has dedicated more than 30 years of research to studying personality and human motivation. He is the Founder and Director of the McGill Human Motivation Lab, and he has published over 180 scientific articles.
Dr. Koestner recently won the Canadian Psychology Association’s Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science (2021).
In 2007, Dr. Koestner received the Canadian Psychological Association award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2008, he won the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching at McGill.
Dr. Koestner is one of the world's leading proponents of Self-Determination theory and his recent work focuses on how to effectively set and pursue personal goals.
Take a 4-minute break to listen to Dr. Koestner speak about happiness
