Michele Zanini: How Too Much Bureaucracy Stifles Innovation
We all hate tedious paperwork. Filling out transport claim documents, internal KPI tracking documentation, expenses claims… All these things can utterly drain your soul, but we do it because we must, because it’s important. But is it? Michele Zanini would say no, or at the very least, not always, in this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Bjarte Bogsnes: Why Budgets Might Be Harming Your Finances and Your Employee’s Happiness
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Beyond Budgeting is only about, well, budgeting. However, it’s about so much more than that.
Budgeting isn’t a sole element of a business, it’s a facet that appears in every department and at every level. Whether you want to take a business trip, implement a new IT system or simply get some new stationery, that will impact, and be impacted by, your organisation’s relevant budgets. However, an organisation’s attitude towards budgeting often reflect more than just its fiscal responsibility.
In this video from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes explains how budgets might be holding back your organisation.
Caron Bradshaw: Why You Should Try Leading With Love
Talk of love in the workplace can be an uncomfortable topic, but should it be? This was a question at the core of Caron Bradshaw’s talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Caron Bradshaw OBE is CEO of the Charity Finance Group. She has also been a member of the NCVO’s National Assembly and has set on a number of government working parties. Caron was honoured with an OBE for services to charity in the New Year’s Honours list in 2021.
Daniel Dzikowski: Why You Should Learn With Happy
Daniel is a champion of Happy’s leadership and management programmes, as he explained during this talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Daniel learned of Happy two decades ago, when he had set out to start his own business and wanted to undertake some learning to ensure that he would have the skills and knowledge to make it a success.
Femi Otitoju: How Agile Leadership Can Get The Most From Your People
Femi Otitoju founded her equality and diversity consultancy in 1985 and has dedicated her career to advancing diversity and inclusion. With over 35 years of experience, she combines her scientific background with persuasive training, facilitation and coaching skills.
In this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Femi shares four key experiences from her career that she believes demonstrate the value of agile and authentic leadership.
COOK: Creating Growth by Placing Relationships at the Heart of Business
Six years ago, Rosie Brown entered COOK for the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For list, which is measured through a staff survey — and was shocked to find that they didn’t make the list.
In this 20-minute video from the 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conference, Rosie talks about COOK’s journey to become a happy workplace.
Lisa and The Moose Heads: Tuff Leadership Training
Lisa Gill, founder of Reimaginaire, trainer with Tuff Leadership Training and host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, was included in the Thinkers50 Radar List 2020 for her work with self-managing teams.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Lisa talks about ways you can create more Psychological Safety in your workplace, about removing moose heads and how to avoid becoming a ‘positive stinker’.
Mister Happiness: Arnaud Collery from Tech X Happiness
Arnaud Collery is the Tech X Happiness speaker and Chief Happiness Officer is known as ‘Mister Happiness’.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Arnaud explains the currency of personal authenticity. Using examples from his own life and the experiences of those he coaches around the world, he describes how a process of continual self-evaluation and reinvention can bring you to your ‘authentic self’ – a person that is recognised and valued both within and outside of the workplace.
Why Happy is a Great Place to Work: A Talk From Our Team
The speakers at conferences are usually senior leaders who praise how well things work at their organisation. For Happy’s talk, we asked three of our frontline staff to talk about their own experiences and a sense of what it’s like to work in a happy workplace.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Sal, Laura and Rebecca share what makes Happy a great place to work. This includes discussing the four-day week and how it works in practice, as well as how Happy’s staff live the company’s values.
Key Messages From Alex Soojung-Kim Pang About The Importance of Rest
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is Global Programs Director at 4 Day Week Global, and a leading voice in reduced hours working. He is the author of three books exploring how companies and individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into digital-age lives and work.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Alex focuses on the key messages from his second book, Rest: Get More Done When You Work Less, which explores the hidden role of rest in the lives of exceptionally creative and prolific people. He discusses the concepts of ‘active rest’, ‘deep play’, and the brain’s ‘default mode network’ as well as the value of vacations and the afternoon nap!
