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Flourishing Edge Podcast with Ashish Kothari

Research backed leadership practices to build high performance cultures and improve workplace wellbeing and employee engagement.

Every week, Ashish Kothari sits down with the researchers, executives and practitioners doing the most rigorous work on improving workplace wellbeing and turns what they have learned into something you can implement right away.

Not wellness perks. Not engagement surveys nobody acts on. The specific behaviors, systems and daily habits that separate organizations where people burn out from those where they thrive.

Conversations range across rewiring habits, building resilience, sustaining energy, cultivating purpose and leading with greater humanity, and how individuals, teams and organizations create the conditions for people and performance to thrive together.

Recent guests include Barbara Jeffrey on workplace wellbeing, Zeynep Ton on the Good Jobs System, Zach Mercurio on why mattering drives retention, and Dr. Kristin Neff on self-compassion.

Every episode gives you something you can use on Monday. How to build high performing teams. How to lead culture change that holds. Why managers shape employee motivation and employee experience more than any program ever will.

Made for business leaders, HR and people teams who own organizational culture and get measured on what it produces.

Ashish spent 17 years at McKinsey watching brilliant, exhausted leaders burn out and leaders prioritizing higher profits at the cost of their people. He wrote Hardwired for Happiness and founded Happiness Squad to fix it. He created the Organizational Human Potential Index, along with the REWIRE and PEARL models behind programs run at Google, PepsiCo, Danone and MUFG.

This podcast is where that work happens out loud. 180+ episodes and counting.

New episodes weekly. More at happinesssquad.com

Copyright: © Copyright 2023 - Happiness Squad

Latest Episodes:

Flourishing Wellbeing – How Small and Medium Businesses Can Turn Their Size Into Strength and Flourish with Sri Kaza Oct 07, 2025

Show notes

Small and medium businesses make up nearly half of all employment and GDP, yet they often struggle to compete against the scale, brand power, and resources of large corporations. Too often, the advice given to them is to “play bigger”—but that’s a losing battle. What if the real advantage lies in embracing their underdog status?

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari sits down with Sri Kaza, Advisory Board at Markaaz and author of the upcoming book UNCONVENTION: A Small Business Strategy Guide, to explore how SMBs can thrive by leaning into what makes them different: positioning, proximity, and purpose. They discuss why small doesn’t mean weak, and how founders can unlock resilience, loyalty, and growth by playing their own game.

Sri Kaza is an entrepreneur, investor, and former McKinsey consultant with a career spanning engineering, consulting, finance, and startups. He has helped scale visionary companies like Viking Cruises, co-founded ForwardLine to provide innovative financing for small businesses, and worked closely with entrepreneurs across industries to unlock growth.

Ashish and Sri unpack inspiring stories, actionable insights, and practical strategies that will change the way you think about leading and growing a small to medium business. Tune in to discover how to turn your size into your greatest strength.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• The three Underdog Principles—Positioning, Proximity, and Purpose—and how to apply them

• Why focusing on your core customers builds resilience during crises

• How closeness to employees and community becomes a competitive edge

• How AI can serve as a growth engine for SMBs rather than just a cost-cutting tool

• Practical ways to stay grounded as a founder and align every decision with purpose

If you want to discover how small and medium businesses can outcompete giants and make flourishing their competitive edge, this conversation is one you won’t want to miss.

✅Resources:

• How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit by Alex Edmans: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/01/how-great-companies-deliver-both-purpose-and-profit/

✅Books:

• Unconvention: A Small Business Strategy Guide by Sri Kaza: https://a.co/d/aYYfD8w

• The Experimentation Machine by Jeff Bussgang: https://experimentationmachine.com/

• Hardwired for happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://happinesssquad.com/hardwired-for-happiness/

Flourishing at Work – Leading with Courage and Kindness with Grace Zuncic Sep 30, 2025

Show notes

What truly drives people to thrive at work isn’t perks or programs, but the culture leaders create every single day. But when the day-to-day culture at work is marked by fear, unclear roles, and pressure from the top, people disengage no matter how many benefits you offer.

Leaders often miss this because they’re chasing quarterly targets or process checklists, leaving human potential untapped. Grace Zuncic’s journey from small-town roots to Chobani, Cotopaxi, and now Manna Tree Partners shows a different path.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari and Grace Zuncic explore how flourishing comes when work itself is designed around courage and kindness.

Grace Zuncic is a seasoned executive and board member with deep experience in scaling purpose-driven companies. She has held leadership roles at Chobani, Cotopaxi, and now serves as Partner at Manna Tree, a private equity firm focused on improving human health through investment in food and wellness businesses.

In the conversation, Ashish and Grace highlight why the answer isn’t to bolt wellbeing programs onto broken systems but to build workplaces where flourishing is the operating model—unlocking both human potential and business performance.

Things you will also learn in this episode:

• Why fear is the biggest barrier to flourishing at work

• How Chobani became a model of human-centered leadership during COVID

• The role of courage and kindness in effective leadership

• Why private equity has more influence on culture than it realizes

• How board service shapes perspective on building enduring, purpose-driven companies

Don’t miss this episode—an urgent call for leaders to lead with courage, act with kindness, and create workplaces where people can truly flourish.

✅Resources:

• How to Make Flourishing Your Competitive Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRV-2C-fkNg

• What Does a Compassionate Workplace Look Like? With Jane Dutton and Monica Worline: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_does_compassionate_workplace_look_like

• The Cotopaxi Foundation: https://www.cotopaxi.com/pages/our-impact?srsltid=AfmBOoqOcdspf6JmJREdKix62bge5cFMOpEioKkGK1xVMs76EY1mrIUg

• Women on Boards: https://www.womenonboards.net/

• Tugboat Institute: https://www.tugboatinstitute.com/

✅Books:

• Shift by Ethan Cross: https://a.co/d/8ioBnAM

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: https://a.co/d/aj9Uubw

• Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia: https://a.co/d/4AWqNws

• Ray Dalio’s Principles: https://a.co/d/5wfMHzQ

• Another Way by Dave Wharton: https://a.co/d/gPnSTGC

• You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh: https://a.co/d/03S2CGn

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/gqZ0SyV

Leadership Training Programs – How Leaders Can Empower Teams to Flourish and Create Big Change at Work with Gretchen Spreitzer Sep 23, 2025

Show notes

Work doesn’t have to be a grind. In fact, the smallest acts of care, recognition, and empowerment can spark extraordinary transformation in how people show up and thrive. Yet too many leaders still chase big programs and sweeping changes, overlooking the everyday moments that actually matter most. What if the secret to flourishing at work has been in front of us all along?

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari sits down with Gretchen Spreitzer, Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, to explore how leaders can empower teams to flourish through meaning, competence, autonomy, and impact. Together, they uncover the science of positive organizations and how leaders can create workplaces where people come alive.

Gretchen Spreitzer is a pioneering scholar in the field of positive organizational scholarship. At the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, she has spent decades researching and teaching topics such as thriving at work, leadership development, and empowerment. Her work has shaped how leaders and organizations around the world design conditions for people to flourish and succeed.

If you’ve ever wondered how to truly unleash your people’s full potential at work and create a positive organization, this conversation will change the way you approach leadership and people empowerment.

Things you will also learn in this episode:

• Why small acts of leadership can have a bigger impact than grand gestures

• The four dimensions of empowerment and how to apply them in your team

• How recognition and authentic feedback can transform workplace culture

• Why managers—not just executives—hold the key to reducing burnout

• The role of empowerment in the age of AI and organizational change

• How to spot and spread the “bright spots” of flourishing inside your company

Tune in now to discover how you can start building a workplace where people flourish—not someday, but today.

✅Resources:

• Center for Positive Organizations: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/

• Reflective Best Self Exercise

• McKinsey: A holistic approach for employees: https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/reframing-employee-health-moving-beyond-burnout-to-holistic-health

• Conscious Capitalism: https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/

✅Books:

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: https://a.co/d/0HDetDR

• Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman: https://a.co/d/5niWg2c

• Another Way by Dave Whorton: https://a.co/d/j6GUo1E

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/1aWVYEx

Leadership Training for Managers – How to Move From Victimhood to Agency in Leadership and Life with Shawn Quinn Sep 16, 2025

Show notes

Leaders often assume transformation comes from learning new skills or following the latest management trend. But real change begins when we confront our own beliefs, reflect deeply, and choose to step out of victimhood into agency. That inner work is what lays the foundation for lasting growth in how we lead and live. Only then can leaders create change that resonates far beyond the workplace.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari and Shawn Quinn talk about the deep reflection leaders need to build their own reality and move from victimhood to agency in life and leadership.

Shawn Quinn is the Managing Partner of Lift Consulting and Faculty Director of the Positive Leadership program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. A leading voice in positive leadership and organizational transformation, he has advised global companies including GE, Coca-Cola, American Express, and the U.S. Army. Shawn is also co-author of Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Organization’s Growth Engine.

Shawn and Ashish explored how transformation doesn’t come from another training, another framework, or another leadership fad. It happens when we pause, reflect, and face the beliefs that hold us back.

Things you will also learn in this episode:

• Breaking free from a victim mindset

• Why belief shifts matter more than skills in true transformation

• The power of small experiments, reflection, and awareness to spark change

• How leaders at any level—not just executives—can create meaningful impact

• How workplace behaviors ripple outward into family, children, and community

• The challenge of systems and people resisting change

Tune in now and see for yourself how this shift unlocks the kind of transformation no trend or tactic can deliver.

✅Resources:

• Related episode: (Robert Quinn) https://player.captivate.fm/episode/1b7c5df6-06e1-4929-83d3-5849caa6b9b5

• Strengthsfinder by Gallup: https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/254033/strengthsfinder.aspx

• A Fundamental State of Leadership Approach: https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1444&context=jvbl

• Charles Snyder’s Hope Theory: https://www.mindtools.com/aov3izj/snyders-hope-theory

• The Sunflower Model: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ee784c9c-cf26-48df-b07f-b4c0dcc638f3

• The Sunflower Model: https://happinesssquad.com/the-sunflower-model-career-transition-guide-with-ashish-kothari/

• The Power of the 5:1 Ratio: https://michiganvirtual.org/blog/the-power-of-the-51-ratio-in-the-classroom-how-fostering-positive-interactions-can-transform-student-learning/

• Martin Seligman’s Learned Helplessness: https://www.simplypsychology.org/learned-helplessness.html

✅Books:

• Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within by Robert E. Quinn: https://a.co/d/dDxJb77

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/fpmucOP

Flourishing at Work – Unlocking Human Potential By Rethinking Talent Development for a Flourishing Future of Work with Stacey Dietsch Sep 09, 2025

Show notes

For years, companies have relied on credentials and rigid job structures that filter out talent instead of developing it. But in a world where roles are shifting fast, especially with AI, those old models are holding organizations back and leaving employees frustrated. It’s time for organizations to unlock human potential by rethinking talent development for the future of work.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari sits down with Stacey Dietsch—former McKinsey partner and senior executive at Liberty Mutual— to explore how skills-based practices, leadership investment, and responsible AI adoption can help organizations empower people and close the talent gap.

Stacey Dietsch is Executive Vice President of Talent Pipeline at Liberty Mutual Insurance, where she leads the end-to-end talent lifecycle—including strategic workforce planning, talent attraction, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, and career growth across 45,000 employees globally.

Before joining Liberty Mutual in January 2024, Stacey spent nearly two decades as a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s People & Organizational Performance Practice, helping organizations align their talent, culture, and operating models to drive sustainable performance and meaningful work.

Stacey emphasizes that building thriving organizations requires deliberate choices—simplifying structures, developing leaders at every level, and giving people ownership of their growth and impact. Tune in now and learn what unlocks your team’s real potential.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Why empowered workplaces outperform bureaucratic ones

• The role of purpose, autonomy, and trust in employee flourishing

• The shift from credential-based to skills-based hiring and promotion

• The promise of STARS (Skilled Through Alternative Routes) in widening talent pipelines

• Using AI responsibly: not just for cost savings, but for growth and workplace transformation

✅Resources:

• Liberty Mutual Insurance: https://www.linkedin.com/company/liberty-mutual-insurance/

• STARS (Skilled Through Alternative Routes) framework: https://www.opportunityatwork.org/stars

• Positive Organizational Scholarship: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/an-introduction/

✅Books:

• Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman: https://a.co/d/cgjo5ij

• The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success by Angela Jackson: https://a.co/d/awtKbEP

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/fpmucOP

Workplace Wellbeing Programs a Business Strategy That Drives Real Results with Julie Rust-Bodenmann Sep 02, 2025

Show notes

Most organizations aren't blind to the rising stress, burnout, and quiet quitting at work. They're just implementing workplace well-being programs that don't work. Leaders are left wondering why their people are disengaged despite offering meditation apps and mental health webinars. The real issue is that wellbeing isn't built into the business strategy.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari and Julie Rust-Bodenmann, former Global Head of Wellbeing at Credit Suisse, reveal what it takes to embed wellbeing into the DNA of a business, even during a crisis.

Drawing from her time at McKinsey, Credit Suisse, and UBS, Julie walks us through how she designed and rolled out a global wellbeing strategy, secured C-suite buy-in, and mobilized a 500-person wellbeing champion network across the organization.

Learn how you can make wellbeing a strategic lever, not just a benefit.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Why most wellness programs fail to move the needle

• How to shift from treating wellbeing as a benefit to a business strategy

• The critical role of role modeling and middle managers

• How storytelling and regulatory pressure can win executive support

• Why starting small and scaling what works beats big, flashy initiatives

• Julie’s own wellbeing practices, and why leaders must start with themselves

Tune in now and walk away with a practical blueprint and the conviction that flourishing workplaces aren’t just possible, they’re profitable.

✅Resources:

• Julie Rust-Bodenmann’s website: https://www.rust-bodenmann.com/

• Oxford University Research: https://hubstaff.com/blog/employee-satisfaction-and-productivity/

• Me-Search by Tal Ben Shahar: https://podcast.wellevatr.com/me-search-the-journey-to-happier-living-with-tal-ben-shahar

• Michael Landsberg’s Sick Not Weak movement: https://www.sicknotweak.com/about/#

• “This Is Me” Campaign (London): https://www.thelordmayorsappeal.org/news-and-events/events-calendar/1198/this-is-me-2023-event/

• World Economic Forum Study: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Thriving_Workplaces_How_Employers_can_Improve_Productivity_and_Change_Lives_2025.pdf

• Addressing Employee Burnout: https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/addressing-employee-burnout-are-you-solving-the-right-problem

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✅Books:

Hardwired for Happiness: https://a.co/d/eoPlwdE

How to Activate Boundless Leadership to Shift from Survival to Flourishing with Joseph Loizzo and Elazar Aslan Aug 12, 2025

Show notes

We’ve got more tools, more tech, and more opportunities than any generation before us. On paper, we should be thriving. So why is it that, despite all this progress, work still feels exhausting? Why have our workplaces become places of stress and burnout even though we've never been more prosperous?

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Joseph Loizzo and Elazar Aslan, co-authors of Boundless Leadership, join Ashish Kothari to talk about how you can move from survival mode to truly flourishing by activating boundless leadership.

Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a renowned human flourishing consultant, meditation researcher, and contemplative psychotherapist. He founded the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science and co-developed the Boundless Leadership program, integrating rigorous scientific research, deep meditation practice, and compassionate psychotherapy.

Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC, is an accomplished author, speaker, and executive coach who has pioneered the field of Conscious Leadership, guiding leaders in cultivating clarity, compassion, and embodied presence. As Director of Boundless Leadership at the Nalanda Institute and founder of Caterfly Solutions, Elazar empowers organizations to shift from stress-driven survival to purpose-driven flourishing.

What does it mean to be a boundless leader? Learn how to rewire your mind, heart, and body so you can lead with clarity, compassion, and energy, and turn from survival mode to flourishing.

Things you will learn from this episode:

• Why workplaces keep us stuck in survival mode—and how to break free

• The leadership risk of AI if we don’t use it with intention

• The three disciplines of Boundless Leadership: mind, heart, and body

• How self-awareness helps you lead with more clarity

• Why compassion is a leadership superpower, not a soft skill

• How somatic practices shift your energy and presence

• Simple ways to start flourishing—wherever you are right now

We got all the expert insights you need in this episode. Tune in now!

Resources:

• Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science: https://nalandainstitute.org/

• Boundless Leadership Program: https://nalandaboundlessleadership.org/

• Vipassana Meditation: https://www.dhamma.org/

Books:

• Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others, and Ignite Positive Change by Elazar Aslan and Joseph Loizzo https://a.co/d/a6FB83v

• More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead by Rasmus Hougaard: https://a.co/d/4O3poBf

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/6MKT87e

Leadership Training for Managers: Trust-First Approach That Led to Major Company Breakthrough with Michelle Poole Aug 05, 2025

Show notes

On paper, everything looks right: your team is talented, your strategy is solid, and your goals are clear. So why does it still feel like progress is harder than it should be?

Often, the real barrier isn’t a lack of strategy. It's because your people don't feel safe to bring their best selves to work. The issue is in your culture, which may have been shaped by years of fear and pressure. And in trying to fix things, it’s common to reach for more structure: more meetings, tighter KPIs, added pressure.

But that rarely works. That only feeds the cycle of stagnant growth, silent disengagement, and widespread burnout. The missing ingredient isn’t strategy. It’s trust.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari and Michelle Poole unpack the trust-first, people-first leadership approach that transforms cultures and leads to company breakthroughs.

Michelle Poole is a seasoned consumer and footwear leader with over three decades of experience, most notably as Brand President at Crocs where she spearheaded a cultural and financial turnaround. She champions authentic, people-first leadership, fostering psychological safety, inclusivity, and trust to drive high-performing, engaged teams.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How life experiences shift priorities from achievement to well-being

• Gender balance at work and feminine leadership energy

• Turning around a struggling brand into a market leader

• How inclusivity and belonging drive performance

• Three key practices for building trust in times of change

If you feel your results are stagnant, it’s time to stop pushing harder and start leading differently.

Tune in now and change the trajectory of your team and your business.

Resources:

• Crocs: https://www.crocs.com/stories/come-as-you-are.html

• StrengthsFinder (now CliftonStrengths): https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx

• How employers can create a thriving workplace: https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/thriving-workplaces-how-employers-can-improve-productivity-and-change-lives

Books:

• Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware: https://a.co/d/eAO9RYv

• My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra Nooyi: https://a.co/d/cBY3kES

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/bPWHmUG

Flourishing Programs: The Smartest $12 Trillion Business Move You’re Not Making with Ashish Kothari Jul 29, 2025

Show notes

Organizations love to talk about well-being. But scratch beneath the surface, and it’s the same old perks: gym discounts, meditation apps, an extra day off. All while work itself remains exhausting.

Leaders, you need to wake up!

Only 20% of employees are thriving.

More than 60% report daily stress.

And the economic cost of poor workplace well-being is an estimated $12 trillion.

It’s time to fix the way we work.

It’s easy to slap “well-being” on a poster. Harder to design work that doesn’t drain people in the first place. In this special solo episode of Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari, Founder and CEO of Happiness Squad, explores why flourishing at work must be a strategic imperative for leaders and organizations.

Drawing on decades of research and lived experience, Ashish makes a clear case for why organizations that invest in well-being don’t just support their people, they outperform the rest.

Things you will also learn in this episode:

• A 5-question diagnostic to assess if you're truly flourishing at work

• How traditional wellness programs fall short—and what to do instead

• Why organizations must move from treating symptoms to redesigning work

• The science-backed PEARL model and Human Potential Index for building resilient, high-performing teams

• A practical playbook for implementing flourishing as a scalable organizational strategy

Flourishing isn’t reserved for top performers or well-funded companies. It’s a way of working, and leading, that any team and leader can choose.

Tune in now to discover how to unlock workplace flourishing, not just for the bottom line, but for the people who make it possible.

Resources:

• Pioneering work on the economics of happiness and wellbeing by Jan‑Emmanuel De Neve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV1ks-TLYoM

Books:

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/gML83VJ

• Why Work Wellbeing Matters by Jan-Emmanuel: https://a.co/d/aQdXmE3

• Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power That Elevates People and Organizations by Jane Dutton and Monica Worline: https://a.co/d/3onS12d

• Connect by Carole Robin: https://a.co/d/gKFbtgH

• How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen: https://a.co/d/1zN1vCt

• The Win-Win Workplace by Dr. Angela Jackson

Why Happiness at Work Starts with the System, Not the Individual with Jennifer Moss Jul 22, 2025

Show notes

If a factory machine breaks, leadership responds within hours.

If a system glitch halts production, it’s triaged immediately.

But when a team’s morale is tanking, the response takes 6–12 months—if it comes at all.

How did we get to a point where our physical assets get more respect than our human ones? We've spent years treating burnout like a solo thing to fix when it’s actually an organizational problem.

In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, Ashish Kothari and Jennifer Moss tackle this problem head on, and discuss what it truly takes to build happy, healthy organizations.

Jennifer Moss is an award-winning journalist, international speaker, and workplace culture strategist. She co-founded Plasticity Labs and is the author of Why Are We Here?, and The Burnout Epidemic (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021), which was named one of the 10 Best New Management Books by Thinkers50 and shortlisted for the 2021 OWL Literary Award. A regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, and Fortune, she’s renowned for reframing burnout as an organizational rather than individual issue.

In the conversation, Ashish and Jennifer unpack the evolution of happiness at work, from early “choose happiness” mantras to a more nuanced understanding of systemic well-being.

Things you will also learn from the episode:

• Rethinking the phrase “Happiness is a Choice”

• How both individual practices and organizational design influence happiness

• The problem of blaming individuals for burnout instead of fixing workplace environments

• Understanding the concept of the “continuum of well-being”

• The Role of AI in Happiness and the Future of Work

Stop waiting for the next annual survey. Start investing like your people matter, because they do.

Resources: ✅

• Jennifer Moss’ website: http://www.jennifer-moss.com/

• Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People (article by Jennifer Moss): https://www.jennifer-moss.com/writing/burnout-is-about-your-workplace-not-your-people

• Mercer Trends study: https://www.mercer.com/en-ca/insights/people-strategy/future-of-work/four-day-workweek-the-cure-for-burnout/#:~:text=If%20you%20feel%20exhausted%2C%20you,industries%2C%20making%20work%20more%20intense.

• Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory Of Motivation-Hygiene: https://www.simplypsychology.org/herzbergs-two-factor-theory.html

• World Happiness Report: The Lost Wallets Experiment: https://worldhappiness.report/news/world-happiness-report-2025-people-are-much-kinder-than-we-expect-research-shows/

Books: ✅

• The Burnout Epidemic by Jennifer Moss: https://a.co/d/bVuMU9G

• Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants by Jennifer Moss: https://a.co/d/1spyHXX

• Unlocking Happiness at Work: How a Data-driven Happiness Strategy Fuels Purpose, Passion and Performance: https://a.co/d/j57U6X5

• Hardwired for Happiness by Ashish Kothari: https://a.co/d/hsJLwcv

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