Jacques Forest

SPEAKER, MOTIVATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Jacques holds a doctorate degree in organizational psychology and has completed postdoctoral studies on the same topic. He is currently an organizational psychologist and a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) as well as a professor-researcher on work motivation at the UQAM School of management science. He received an award in 2006 for his abilities in scientific popularization and, in 2011, he received the rising star award in research from his business school. Jacques has given 225 conferences or intervention in more than 9 countries and is one of the co-authors of the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale, a scientifically-validated scale which measure the different types of motivation in 13 different languages and currently translated in 8 other languages. His work is grounded in positive psychology and verifies when and how it is possible to reconcile performance and well-being at work.