Claire is Head of Marketing at Happy. She has worked at Happy since 2016, and is responsible for Happy's marketing strategy, website, social media and more. Claire first heard about Happy in 2012 when she attended a mix of IT and personal development courses. These courses were life-changing and she has been a fan of Happy ever since. She has a personal blog at lecari.co.uk.
At the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference, Shannon Banks recounts her experiences of happy workplaces in her career at Microsoft and at Be. Watch some of the highlights in this short 2 minute video.
When Brendan O'Keefe and his team formed the independent social enterprise Epic CIC, Brendan challenged his people to create their own performance appraisal at their staff conference. After much discussion and debate, the team created 8 items that are now used in appraisals and recruitment. Find out more in this short clip from Brendan's talk at the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Nicky Stone from Happy talked about how to implement The Happy Manifesto and create a happy workplace at 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Emma Rapoport, of Google, spoke at the Happy Workplaces conference about her experiences in management and leadership development as well as various other strengths.
Happy is delighted to announce that they have won the Leadership Excellence Award for Organisations in the 2024 Leadership Awards. The Leadership Awards are hosted by The Institute of Leadership, and this year's awards ceremony took place on Friday 15th November at the Hilton London Bankside. Maureen Egbe and Sheena Morris accepted the award on Happy's behalf. The Awards highlighted 85 outstanding individuals and organisations across their 10 different awards categories.
Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”
Alex is the founder of Woohooinc. and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work. He is the author of 3 books including the international bestseller Happy Hour is 9 to 5 – How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work.
Clive Hutchinson is the CEO of Cougar Automation, and he spoke to us during the Creating Happy Workplaces Conference about his focus on sustainable, profitable growth through customer service.
Dom Monkhouse has built two £30 million businesses on the basis of unique cultures and creating great places to work in.
This is a great presentation from Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School, Thinkers 50 UK Top Three) speaking at Happy Workplaces 2014, covering everything from habit formation, through road traffic planning, all the way to the surprising lead indicator of employee engagement. A LOT of delegates said they would revamp their upward appraisal process after listening to Julian’s presentation.