Make flourishing your competitive edge

The Happiness Squad provided a supportive structure for our commitment to develop a culture of belonging and to prioritize authentic engagement among our faculty and staff.  Ashish was a skillful and gentle guide, creating a welcoming environment of invitation for everyone in our group.

Hardwired for Happiness offers a blueprint for living a rich and intentional life. The nine-step practice that Ashish has laid out allows you to live from within and let go of fear, anxiety, anger, and resentment. For me, it established a strong framework for happiness, making better decisions, and, more importantly, allowing me to self-reflect and be more self-aware. It’s a must-read for a mindful leader!

The Happiness Foundation Masterclass offers practices that will help you incrementally master scientifically proven methods necessary to design your own personalized strategy for success. The course will lead you towards achieving sustained peace, renewed hope and true happiness regardless of your situation or circumstances. The practical skills you learn will help you create habits to help you return to a place of calm, contentment, gratitude and even joy!

Beautifully combining storytelling and research, Ashish Kothari provides a map that can help you find the path to your best self. A powerful and accessible guide.

This course was so impactful for me. Although I've experimented with many of these practices before, I've struggled to make anything stick. The Happiness Foundation Masterclass was different. The bite sized practices actually made changing my behavior approachable and achievable without feeling overwhelming. Gratitude and self-compassion have been game changers for me!

In our fast-changing, volatile and unpredictable world, we need leaders who embody a mindset of abundance  and lead with compassion and purpose. Ashish’s book Hardwired for Happiness presents a highly accessible  and practical set of frameworks that we can all use to become joyful, kinder, compassionate, and purposeful.

With Hardwired for Happiness Ashish Kothari has given us a foundational and sweeping description of the embodied path to awakening and joy. This beautiful book is a companion on the journey that can guide one through the cultivation of mature emotional and spiritual intelligence and the development of a truly generous and open heart. The fruits of this inner work are captured throughout the book in chapters on compassion, kindness, and the path of living with intention. In a truly timely way Ashish will help meet those of us turning afresh to the profound questions of meaning, purpose, community, and service.  I urge you not to miss this gem.

Through his life, Ashish achieved many summits of excellence. He has done it again. Ashish distilled the essence of hundreds of books and talks from great masters in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom, and from the book of his own life, to gift us an elegant guide to support us in taking a journey inward to live our best life. It is filled with simple yet powerful practices, supported by a wealth of references, research nuggets, and heartfelt stories. A book to keep by our bedside and return to frequently, using it as a life compass.

Authentic, compassionate, practical. In this timely book, Ashish shares his own journey with vulnerability and offers a highly accessible approach that everyone can use to become better versions of ourselves and achieve our full potential.

Rich and compelling from page one! For about the typical self-hep tutorial – this is a life-changing read. Ashish literally unlocks the secrets to living a fuller and freer life. Grounded in solid research, it offers a practical and easy-to-follow roadmap to help anyone become the best version of themselves.

At Trivium, we partnered on a holistic well-being journey involving re-activation of our purpose, flourishing exercises and emotional intelligence. With deep expertise, Ashish and his team delivered an interactive and tailored program, and had a tremendous impact on engagement and culture, particularly psychological safety. I was particularly impressed with how the Happiness Squad maximized their reach in our global organization through a hybrid approach. Thank you!

We are talking together about things we would have never addressed before we engaged your team. Engaging with the Happiness Squad provided the business with best practices and frameworks that can be leveraged for future M&A activity.

We have truly enjoyed working with Ashish and the Happiness Squad. When creating our leadership program, Ashish took the time to get to know our organization, understand our shared values, and embrace our principles. As a result, the program has been very impactful for our employees. He has an incredible knack for connecting with and engaging individuals in his trainings. It’s best described as great and unconventional leadership program which not only enhances measurable outcomes but also equips an individual with inside-outside tools to train the brain such that effective leadership becomes an instinctive habit.

I enjoyed the cohort and the support that I received and highly recommend it to anybody going through that transition in life. I continue to learn and grow with this and leverage the tools to manage my career and life as I move forward. I highly recommend it!

Ashish facilitated an excellent offsite for my leadership team. The preparation prior was very helpful, to ensure the time together was well spent and efficient. He brought really relevant insight and experience to help us effectively assess where we needed to focus and improve, plus how to go about that. Ashish created an environment for the team to be open and develop the next level of trust and respect too. Overall super worthwhile and I’ll definitely use Ashish again!

Ashish didn’t just facilitate our leadership offsite—he helped us unlock the clarity and courage we needed at a critical moment. In two days, we tackled hard truths, redefined our roles, and left with a concrete playbook to accelerate growth. It was the rare kind of session that shifts both mindset and execution in lasting ways.