Positive Psychology: Looking back and looking forward for 2025 and beyond
Siobhain O’Riordan, Stephen Palmer and Ilona Boniwell
Citation: O’Riordan, S., Palmer, S., & Boniwell, I. (2025). Editorial: Positive Psychology: Looking back and looking forward for 2025 and beyond. European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 9, 1, 1-3. https://www.nationalwellbeingservice.org/volumes/volume-9-2025/volume-9-article-1-editorial
Processing dates: Submitted: 13 March 2025; Published: 18 March 2025
Biographies
Dr Siobhain O’Riordan PhD FISCP Accred is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. She is a Fellow and Chair of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP) and a member of the International Research Centre Development Team of the ISCP. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3216-2939
Dr Stephen Palmer PhD FISCP Accred is an Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology at Aalborg University and former Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (2018-2024). He is a Director at the National Academy of Coaching Psychology and the National Wellbeing Service Ltd. He has written and edited 60 books including Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice (2018, with Green) and has published over 300 articles and chapters.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0108-6999
Dr Ilona Boniwell is a leading figure in positive organisational psychology and executive coaching, with over 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy. Ilona is a CEO of Positran, Adjunct Professor at HEC and CentraleSupelec, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes and Musashino University and Faculty of VIA Institute of Character. She wrote or edited 12 books and delivered over 300 invited talks and keynotes, including a TEDx talk. Passionate about applications of psychological science, Ilona taught and trained tens of thousands of business leaders, HR professionals, trainers and consultants how to optimise well-being and engagement, enhance resilience, develop talents and leadership and use insights from psychological assessment. Her approach blends experiential learning, gamification, and thoughtfully crafted pedagogical design. Her main teaching expertise lies in the areas of positive psychology, coaching psychology, positive organisational psychology, leadership, change management and positive education. Her specific research interests include resilience, subjective time use, time perspective, eudaimonic well-being, measuring well-being and engagement at work, tangible pedagogical tools and
applications of positive psychology to business, executive and team coaching.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-7528