Max Strom is a teacher, speaker, and author known for inspiring and positively impacting the lives of his students and readers. His system guides us to live a meaningful life and includes a philosophy for living, self-inquiry, breath-work, yoga postures, and meditation. His book A Life Worth Breathing is available in five languages. Max Strom has spoken at TEDx events, and given a keynote speech on ethics in business at the Lululemon management conference. His articles and interviews have appeared in the Utne Reader, the Huffington Post, Whole Living, Happinez, Yoga Journal, and the New York Times. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

"There is No App for Happiness is the new playbook for how to survive THRIVE in our modern culture. It served as a great reality check for me personally."—Kerri Kelly, Executive Director, Off the Mat, Into the World™“In a world where there appears to be an app for everything and many people have more virtual friends than real ones, Max has written a powerful and important book. Highly informative, thought-provoking, empowering and action oriented…a book that can help transform lives and create deep personal connections."—Russ Nash, former Global Managing Director, Accenture Health Practice"Direct, practical and accessible. Profound, transcendent and illuminating. Max Strom has authored an important guide to living a more authentic and meaningful 21st century life."—John W. McBurney, M.D. Integrative Neurologist“Comprehensive, focused and immediately useful, There is No App for Happiness is an articulate and highly readable synthesis of unique thinking and a framework through which to apply it to everyday life. This should be recommended reading for all leaders and development professionals.”—Travis Southwick, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army“The marvel of reading Max Strom's book is to be convinced one can follow his three life imperatives to take back control of our lives and the private reality that is the deepest self. It is an astonishing work propelling the reader towards a new and more meaningful experience of living.”—Jeff Carter, Chief Strategist at Eyelock Corporation and author of No-Limit and The Art of War for Cancer