Ask me a question. Follow @norcalcs LOS ALTOS, CA, May 28, 2011 – Gratitude pays. Just ask Dr. Robert Emmons. Last week the John Templeton Foundation announced that they were giving Emmons, a psychology professor at U.C. Davis $5.6 million to fund a three-year project to promote evidence-based practices of gratitude in schools, offices, homes, and communities. But as Emmons himself would likely say, the real payoff isn’t in the number of dollars his research is attracting, but in the impact that gratitude is >>>

Ola Roberts hit her professional stride soon after graduating in psychology from Sydney's Macquarie University, but a game of rugby caused a side-step to Hawke's Bay. She worked for Cable and Wireless Optus and a multinational executive training company, quickly building up a following as a result of her flair for developing people and teams. Still in her mid-20s she started her own business as a communication consultant. On a six-month contract in Auckland she found herself being especially patriotic while watching a Bledisloe Cup test in an inner-city pub. "I was the only one in the place >>>