Jack Canfield is an American author and motivational speaker with a net worth of $50 million. Canfield is most famous for being the co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series of books. The series to date has sold more than 500 million copies in 40 languages and has close to 200 titles.
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Canfield has worked as a teacher, psychotherapist, and workshop facilitator. The book has since grown into a huge multi-media empire publicly traded on the NASDAQ as CSSE. As of the date of this writing CSSE has a market cap of $250 million.
Jack Canfield III was born in Fort Worth, Texas in August 1944. He graduated with a degree in Chinese History for Harvard University. He started the Canfield Training Group and in 2004 he established The Transformational Leadership Council which is a member’s club. Apart from the Chicken Soup series, he has authored more than 15 books.
He has earned three Honorary Doctorates. Canfield was awarded Motivator of the Year for 1999 by Business Digest. He was awarded an Oprah’s Angel Network Award in 1999. He has been a guest on 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Larry King Live, Eye to Eye, and numerous others. The Chicken Soup for the Soul business was sold to a new group of owners in 2008 by Jack Canfield and business partner Mark Victor Hansen.
