Unlock Individual & Org. Flourishing

Your people, teams and organization at their fullest potential

Companies with flourishing cultures enjoy:

Stock returns

Profitability gains

Boosts in creativity

12-30

Productivity gains

Our proprietary flourishing models

Flourishing interventions at the individual and system level to enable break through performance, sustainably and at scale

SUNFLOWER MODEL^TM

9 secular, scientifically proven practices that enable individuals to become happier, healthier and more resilient

PEARL MODEL^TM

5 key flourishing domains that enable people leaders to unleash the untapped collective potential often untapped within their organizations

TAILORED SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

Explorations & Provocations

Interactive sessions to inspire, motivate and teach flourishing skills

Leadership Workshops
Curated Retreats / Offsites
Keynote speaking engagements

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Flourishing Strategy Design & Activation

Diagnose and design a fit for purpose flourishing strategy to unlock your fullest potential

Flourishing Edge^TM assessment to quantify value at stake
Flourishing strategy design and roadmap development

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Capability Development

Upskill essential flourishing capabilities needed to enable flourishing teams

Purpose: Infuse meaning into your day-to-day work
Energy: Create net positive spirals of energy
Awareness: Operate with a resilient mindset
Relationship: Deepen trust and belonging
Lifeforce: Make stress your ally

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Flourishing Transformations

Unlock 2-3% higher annual shareholder value by integrating flourishing interventions into the way you and your teams work to drive impact

REWIRE^TM journeys on individual skills for integrated teams
PEARL^TM flourishing leader program for people leaders
Behavior change backbone support via continuous listening, peer board discussions and more
Individual and team coaching

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Discover your organization’s true potential

The Organization Human Potential Index (OHPI) assesses potential at all levels, examining practices, outcomes, and aspirations. Understand where we can help maximize your organization’s potential.

WHAT SETS US APART

We democratize wellbeing

Science backed interventions

Focus on the whole system

Rigorous data driven approach

Based on adult learning principles and science of habit formation

Transformation not just training

Progress over perfection

Our approach makes flourishing accessible to all levels through a cascaded approach that engages the whole organization

All our flourishing interventions are backed by years of academic and applied research on their impact on wellbeing at work and improvement in business outcomes

Our holistic interventions tackle the flourishing problem at 4 levels of individual, job, team and organization level, fundamentally changing way you work

We quantify the human capital losses and customize interventions at the team level to improve wellbeing at work

Our learning modules are bite sized with sufficient time in between the sessions to give time for leaders to teach others and learning by doing

We help you and your leaders not just learn but truly integrate the science based flourishing interventions into how they live, work and lead.

Rapid, iterative agile sprints led by teams to keep learning and improving through experimentation

WHAT SETS US APART

We democratize wellbeing

Our approach makes flourishing accessible to all levels through a cascaded approach that engages the whole organization

Science backed interventions

All our flourishing interventions are backed by years of academic and applied research on their impact on wellbeing at work and improvement in business outcomes

Focus on the whole system

Our holistic interventions tackle the flourishing problem at 4 levels of individual, job, team and organization level, fundamentally changing way you work

Rigorous data driven approach

We quantify the human capital losses and customize interventions at the team level to improve wellbeing at work

Based on adult learning principles and science of habit formation

Our learning modules are bite sized with sufficient time in between the sessions to give time for leaders to teach others and learning by doing

Transformation not just training

We partner with you to support the line leaders in implementing the classroom based learnings into day to day work with their teams. We integrate the science behind at scale behavior change to nudge the system to transform itself

Progress over perfection

Rapid, iterative agile sprints led by teams to keep learning and improving through experimentation

Don’t just take our word for it

Testimonials

The revolution’s already started

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.

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.

IN ACTION

Gain an edge in the game

Trivium

Increased engagement and flourishing across European division touching 5000 employees through helping leadership activate purpose and connect the “organizational why” to the “individual why” across all levels.

Deerfield

Supported culture integration efforts of 2 PE backed brand agencies through crafting a shared purpose, developing an overall flourishing strategy to address gaps, defining future leadership behaviors, and boosting collaborative skills.

Tillamook

Supported the employee wellbeing journey at Tillamook through leading a workshop series to help employees improve physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. Topics included building neurofriendly ways of working, making stress an ally, creating net positive spirals of energy and increasing belonging.

Crocs

Helped the leadership team assess the current collective leadership stage of development and identify the key “Fit for Future” leadership capability shifts needed to support the company’s future growth aspirations.

OUR ECOSYSTEM OF EXPERTS

Meet the revolutionaries

Ashish Kothari

Founder & CEO

Ashish Kothari

Founder & CEO

Ashish Kothari is an executive coach, author and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness and flourishing to achieve their full potential. Through his 17 year stint at McKinsey & Company, Ashish has helped organizations develop capabilities critical to strategy success. Ashish lives in Boulder and has a Masters in Business administration (MBA) with a specialization in Organizational behavior from Chicago Booth and a Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.

Aditya Venkatesh

Principal, Client Delivery

Aditya Venkatesh

Principal, Client Delivery

Aditya brings over 25 years of global consulting, industry, and leadership experience across industries and cultures in helping organizations and leaders design and implement transformations at scale. A.D. has served clients in the Americas, Europe and APAC regions and is a trusted advisor to executives, who leads with a people-first approach, enabling teams to excel and find purpose in their work. At Happiness Squad, A.D. oversees client delivery of our programs ensuring that individuals, teams and organizations are able to integrate the science of flourishing into their ways of working. A.D. lives in Scottsdale, AZ and holds an MBA in Marketing and an MA in Economics.

Amy Young

Organizational Flourishing Expert

Amy Young

Organizational Flourishing Expert

Dr. Amy Young is an organizational psychologist with a distinguished career in teaching, research and consulting. As a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and core faculty member at the Center for Positive Organizations, she ignites the minds of future business leaders with the power of positive communication, high quality relationships, and flourishing workplace cultures. Amy’s expertise lies in the intersection of leadership communication, relational energy, and the cultivation of positive organizational cultures. She is a passionate advocate for employee well-being and a sought-after keynote speaker and advisor for leaders seeking to translate research on organizational flourishing into practical applications. Amy received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan and a BA in human development & social relations from Earlham College. After marrying her college sweetheart and raising two sons, Amy and her husband Joel enjoy running, biking, traveling, and celebrating life’s joys with friends and family.

Britta Bibel

Culture Change Expert

Britta Bibel

Culture Change Expert

Britta is a deep culture change expert on a mission to make flourishing transformations possible and accepted as a productive and sustained way of being radically human. Britta facilitates large-scale organizational transformations as well as helping individual leaders grow and transition to their next levels. With over 25 years of experience as a transformational leader, she has held key positions as Global Head of Culture Transformation, Sustainability, Compliance & Ethics, and Business Excellence in multinational companies like GE and Oerlikon as well as management consulting. She holds a PhD in Organizational Change, an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility, and a Diploma in Organizational Psychology.

Brian Dubow

Happiness Expert

Brian Dubow

Happiness Expert

Brian Dubow is a Certified Happiness Trainer who studied the science of happiness under Harvard Professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar. He is the host of the Hit of Happiness podcast and blog, which share stories and insights that inspire individuals to live their healthiest and happiest lives. Brian resides in Los Angeles, California, where he takes advantage of the weather by training for and competing in marathons and triathlons. Brian received his master’s in business administration (MBA) from UCLA Anderson in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development. In his coaching practice, Brian specializes in optimizing life design and self-worth by helping his clients think bigger and breakthrough their limiting beliefs, all while building habits grounded in the science of happiness.

Meg Stevens

Talent Development & Mental Health Expert

Meg Stevens

Talent Development & Mental Health Expert

Meg Stevens has spent nearly 20 years in business consulting on topics of leadership development, people engagement, and talent management. During the past five years, she led talent processes, selection, and culture development for one of the largest and most complicated merger and spin events in the Fortune 500. Meg brings her deep education, front-line executive experiences, humor, and unrelenting human condition study to her work with The Happiness Squad. As an expert in leadership and mental health, she helps organizations become places of growth and performance through trauma-aware approaches and cutting-edge interventions. Meg has an MS in Leadership and an MA in Clinical Mental Health and works as a coach and counselor when she is not helping organizations and teams increase their effectiveness, resilience, safety, and performance.

Ian Kahng

High-Performance Consultant

Ian Kahng

High-Performance Consultant

Ian brings a wealth of diverse experience to his role as a high-performance consultant. He began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in multiple functions, including transformation operations and the LEAP practice, McKinsey’s startup accelerator. His work spanned various sectors, including energy, software, financial services, sustainability, and nonprofit organizations. Ian also has a background in private equity, where he managed portfolio company financials, operations, and the hiring and training of leadership teams. In addition, Ian started and operated his own startup in the sustainable energy space. Ian is a trained executive coach from the Georgetown Institute of Transformational Leadership and is also a published author, having written a book on positive psychology titled "Firmness of Mind," which donates 100% of its profits to charity.

Isabel Scher

High Performance Team Coach

Isabel Scher

High Performance Team Coach

I am a big-hearted, integrity-driven leader thrilled to be part of the Happiness Squad team. My purpose is to humanize work, by helping leaders craft meaningful, successful workplaces where teams can thrive together. Drawing on my experience as an organizational consultant with McKinsey & Company and as an entrepreneur, I bring a unique blend of emotional intelligence, systems expertise, and intuitive insight to team transformations and individual leadership coaching. I hold an ICF Coaching Certification, a Masters in Global Affairs from Schwarzman Scholars, and a B.A. in Political Science from Rice University. Based in Boulder, Colorado, I love hiking, skiing, dancing, and actively engaging in the local entrepreneurship community.

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