Professor Lea Waters is a global expert on helping people to flourish. She is the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is also the president of the International Positive Psychology Association and holds affiliate positions at Cambridge University and the University of Michigan. She has been listed in the Financial Times and Westpac Bank 100 Women of Influence. She also developed the Positive Detective Curriculum used by schools all over the world. In 2017, she also published a book on the new science of positive parenting titled The Strength Switch.