Jenny Fox Eades is Programme Director for Schools and Young People at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology. Jenny trained as a special needs teacher at the University of Manchester and has an MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London and UEL. Her first degree was in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University and she has a Diploma of Higher Education in Theology from Westminster College in Oxford. She also has qualification in counselling skills and group psychotherapy. She studied on Authentic Happiness 4 with Martin Seligman and is a founder member of the Positive Workplace Alliance.
 
Jenny has taught children across the age and ability range, including looked after and at risk teenagers. For the past four years she has been applying positive psychology in schools in North Lincolnshire, developing and running the Celebrating Strengths project and working with teachers, parents and children. Her previous books are Listening to Life (2004, Quay Press), a practical guide to spiritual development in the classroom, and Classroom Tales (2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers) a guide to using stories and story telling for emotional and academic development.