ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Belle Liang is a professor of counseling, developmental, and educational psychology at Boston College, a licensed clinical psychologist, and an expert in positive youth development. She is an American Psychological Association fellow and the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni award and the Many Faces of Counseling Psychology award for outstanding contributions in psychology, as well as numerous honors for teaching and mentoring. She founded the Purpose Lab, whose mission is to advance the science and practice of mentoring and cultivating purpose in schools and workplaces. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.

Timothy Klein is an award-winning urban educator, clinical therapist, and school counselor. He has served as an outreach director for Summer Search, a national youth development nonprofit that serves low-income first-generation students; and was a teaching fellow at Harvard University; as well as the director of school and community engagement at Medford High School, where he implemented strategies that increased college matriculation by 30 percent. He lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.

Together at Boston College, Liang and Klein developed True North, a curriculum and web-based application for creating purpose profiles to be used in schools, universities, and workplaces.