How Dogstar Foundation is Creating a Happy Workplace with the Level 7 Programme
The Level 7 Senior Leadership programme is a post-graduate level qualification with a difference. It’s designed for CEOs and senior level leaders of organisations who want to learn how to change the culture of their organisation to one based on trust and empowerment.
As an apprenticeship qualification, it’s focused on implementing ideas and on-the-job learning, and it can be paid for by the Apprenticeship Levy. This means that your organisation will pay just £700 for a two-year leadership programme with monthly workshops and regular coaching.
“If you’re battling imposter syndrome or think studying isn’t for you as an adult, please reconsider. If I can do it, anyone can,” says Samantha Green of Dogstar Foundation.
Happy Named One of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2025
Happy is proud to announce that we have been named on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2025 List by Great Place To Work.
Continuing Professional Development Courses at Happy
We now have a range of Continuing Professional Development, or CPD, certified courses.
CPD is an essential, recognised approach to helping you keep your skills and knowledge up to date. It supports conscious and pro-active learning and demonstrates commitment towards your role or profession.
Our CPD certified courses have been checked by a third party, including all handouts, slides and other supporting learning materials. This ensures our courses have the latest information and are relevant to your role.
Happy’s Leadership Apprenticeship Programmes Are Now More Inclusive Than Ever
We believe that great leadership training should be available to everyone.
We’re excited to announce that there have been significant changes to apprenticeship programmes that make our Leadership Apprenticeship Programmes more inclusive and accessible than ever before.
Generational Harmony at Work: Building Bridges for a Unified Future
There is much talk about different generations, and at times the narrative seems to imply how incompatible Gen Xers like me are with our younger colleagues. Managing a team with people across the generational divide can bring serious challenges – there are more over 60s in the workplace than ever before and digital natives at the other end whose adult life experience has been totally in the post-COVID world.
Explore, Reflect, and Grow: Join Our Free International Women’s Day Session
Join us on 5th March at 9.30am for an opportunity to reflect and celebrate this International Women’s Day.
This free one-hour session will be a safe space for women to explore challenges they face in their working life, particularly around leadership and tech. We will also have a free training session on AI and how it can be used as a co-thinker to help overcome feelings of Imposterism.
Happy wins Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award 2025
Happy has won the Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award 2025 – an independent seal of excellence, based on customer reviews on the Feefo platform.
In 2024, Happy received almost 200 reviews with an average rating of 4.7. This is the fifth consecutive year that Happy has won the award, which is every year we have been eligible – a huge achievement!
Reinventing leadership – John Seddon at Beyond Budgeting 2015
John Seddon is an occupational psychologist, researcher, professor, management thinker and global authority on change, specialising in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985.
Ulrich Gammelgaard: Transparency and Demand Response at Velux
Ulrich Gammelgaard is Head of Global Financial Management at Velux, a roof window and skylight manufacturer, and one of the strongest brands in the building industry.
Ulrich has played a major role in the transformation of the Velux planning model which has improved transparency and the company’s ability to act on demand changes globally.
Libby and Esther: Creating clear principles and values at Christian Aid
At Christian Aid, the culture has been very much focused on ‘command and control’, but Esther Stevenson and Libby Gordon have been working together to change that. Their goal is to move more decisions to front-line staff and the point of impact for the charity’s important work, and give their people more ownership over their roles. Find out more in Libby and Esther’s talk from the 2016 Happy Workplaces Conference.
