Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP

Goals & Grit™ Expert

For over three decades, Caroline has been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of goal setting, grit, happiness and success. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one’s life for maximum transformation.

Caroline helps people identify, come up with a plan for, and persist in achieving their toughest goals while also inspiring those around them – the “awethentic effect.” Her groundbreaking book, Creating Your Best Life (2009/2021), the first mass market book on goals that included evidence-based research, connected the science of success with the science of happiness. Dr. Martin Seligman, the “father of Positive Psychology” proclaimed the book as adding a “major missing piece” to goal literature in his book Flourish, and many websites have continued to rank CYBL as the #1 goal book of all time, leading to its reissue in 2021.

In her keynote presentations and workshops, Caroline blends her personal experience, real life examples and research in positive psychology, to come up with practical applications that allow for maximum transformation and growth in people’s lives. Caroline leaves her audiences with tangible takeaways and actions they can use to create their own happiness and success.

Caroline has worked with clients around the world including: Morgan Stanley, lululemon, The Wharton School/UPENN, RE/MAX, Booz Allen, Young Presidents’ Organization, Harvard Law School, and Swisse Wellness.

Caroline is a popular presenter in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School Executive Education program.

In addition to the books named above, Caroline is the author of Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013) and My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), which are the only two memoirs that cover the onset of bulimia to three decades of unbroken recovery. My Name is Caroline was the first book to give readers hope that recovery was possible, leading to her being featured on magazine covers and television stations around the world for many years.

Caroline’s work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and other media around the world for decades, including BBC World News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, NPR, and CNN.

Caroline has a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She is a top-ranked Masters Swimmer and is a black belt martial artist.