Daniel Cordaro

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About Daniel Cordaro

Dr. Daniel Cordaro is the founder and CEO of the Contentment Foundation, an educational transformation organization that helps teachers and students find the joy that is already inside of them. Dr. Cordaro was formerly the director of the Universal Expression Project at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry. While there, he led a massive global team that decoded the human language of emotional expressions across over a dozen cultures. He and his team published the three largest studies on cross-cultural human emotion to date. The culmination of this work was when his team made first contact with a culturally isolated community high in the Himalayas of remote Bhutan. At 30 years old, Dr. Cordaro became the Director of Wellbeing at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he taught a course on Human Emotion. He and his research team inaugurated a new branch of psychological research focusing on contentment - the feeling of completeness regardless of external circumstances. Together, they began to create an educational transformation program that would later become the Four Pillars of Wellbeing and the inspiration behind the Contentment Foundation. In 2015, he founded The Contentment Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to promote and enhance human well-being in adults and children. In collaboration with U.C. Berkeley and Yale University, and with the support of more than 30 extraordinary experts across the globe, the foundation has developed a powerful program called the Four Pillars of Wellbeing. Their team offers simple, yet powerful tools that provides teachers, students, and adults strategies to navigate their inner worlds - rediscovering that they’re already complete as they are. In 2019, The Contentment Foundation formally came out of stealth mode and launch their platform worldwide.