Jane S. Anderson

Jane S. Anderson serves as VIA Institute faculty member and president of Strength Based Living LLC, a business dedicated to helping individuals and groups harness character strengths. Her book 30 Days of Character Strengths: A Guided Practice to Ignite Your Best offers a guided strengths journey to shift from wrong to strong in personal and professional settings.

As a seasoned presenter, facilitator, and coach, Jane has helped thousands of people practice applying character strengths to meet challenges and transform relationships, work, and everyday life. She has presented at international conferences; served as guest faculty for Wholebeing Institute; supported world-renowned positive psychology experts in the classroom; and she became 1 of 15 charter members in the world, certified to teach VIA’s Mindfulness Based Strengths Practice (MBSP) course.

She relies on all 24 strengths, and especially her signature strengths - creativity, humor, perspective, honesty, and kindness - to enliven and engage others.