About Jack Canfield

40 years of helping people achieve their dreams

Meet Jack Canfield

His mission is to inspire and empower people to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy

Teacher. Truth-Seeker.
Storyteller. Life Changer.

From his earliest days teaching inner-city high school students how to discover their potential and succeed no matter what their circumstances — to becoming a world-renowned transformational speaker and trainer who has conducted more than 2,500 workshops and events all over the world — Jack Canfield has devoted his life and career to helping others achieve their personal definition of success and create lives of greater joy, meaning, and fulfillment.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

— Jack Canfield
as quoted in The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story

A Pioneer and Legend in the Field of Personal Development and Peak Performance

  • Founder of the billion-dollar Chicken Soup for the Soul™ publishing empire
  • Multiple New York Times bestselling author of —The Success Principles, The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win, The Key to Living the Law of Attraction, Living the Success Principles, Coaching for Breakthrough Success, and more.
  • 2.5 million subscribers and followers on social media
  • Sold 500+ million books worldwide
  • Featured guest on 1,000+ TV and radio shows
  • Has trained 2,900+ Canfield Success Principles Trainers in 107 countries
  • Founded the Transformational Leadership Council
  • Inducted into the National Speakers Associations "Speakers Hall of Fame"
  • Is a Harvard graduate with a Master's degree in Psychological Education

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Founder of a Billion-Dollar

Publishing Empire

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, which encompasses licensing, merchandising, and publishing activities around the globe. As its beloved creator, Jack fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre — and watched it grow into a billion dollar market.

With well over 500 million books sold to date worldwide, more than 250 titles in print, and translations into more than 43 languages, “chicken soup for the soul” is one of the world’s best-known phrases and is regularly referenced in pop culture.

Maximizing Human Potential

We all have unlimited possibility to become pretty much anything we want.

— Jack Canfield

“Top 25” Most Influential Leader
in Personal Development

In 2015, Success Magazine named Jack Canfield one of it’s “Top 25 Most Influential” leaders in the personal development field, along with other world-famous names such as Oprah Winfrey, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Steve Harvey, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins, Sheryl Sandberg and more.

He has also been a featured guest on 1,000+ radio and television programs, national magazines, popular blogs, and award-winning podcasts.

Master Trainer of Trainers, Coaches, and Speakers

As one of the world’s leading human-potential experts, Jack’s trains and certifies others to teach his content and use his methodology all over the world—bringing the principles of success, and an attitude of achievement to people in all walks of life.

His Train the Trainer career development program has launched hundreds of professionals in the human potential field over the last ten years. With over 4,100 trainers in 115 countries, he’s actively recruiting those who want to step up and join him in his global mission.

One of the World’s Most Sought-After Speakers

Jack is an in-demand speaker who has brought stadiums of 50,000+ to their feet, cheering his message of The Success Principles — inspiring teams and individuals to achieve greater success in everything they do by taking on greater challenges, up-leveling their efforts, strategic alliances, relationships, attitudes, behaviors, and more.

As an advisor to some of the world’s biggest organizations, industries from healthcare, manufacturing, direct sales, real estate, higher education, and many others have experienced positive and profound change as a result of implementing Jack’s strategies.

Want to join us to inspire and empower other people to live their highest vision?

When people show up fully and live their best lives, they inspire others to do the same – and this creates a ripple effect that makes the world a better place for everyone.

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Our Mission Statement is to inspire and empower people to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

We do this by delivering excellent content and training that expands awareness, builds self-confidence, fosters cooperation, reduces hatred and intolerance, improves relationships, and empowers individuals and organizations to achieve their goals and dreams.

— Jack Canfield