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Companies with flourishing cultures enjoy:
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2
x
Stock returns
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21
%
Profitability gains
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x
Boosts in creativity
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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

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SUNFLOWER MODELTM

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

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PEARL MODELTM

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

TAILORED SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

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Explorations & Provocations
Interactive sessions to inspire, motivate and teach flourishing skills
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
Diagnose and design a fit for purpose flourishing strategy to unlock your fullest potential
  • Flourishing EdgeTM 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
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
Unlock 2-3% higher annual shareholder value by integrating flourishing interventions into the way you and your teams work to drive impact
  • REWIRETM journeys on individual skills for integrated teams
  • PEARL MODELTM 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 Organizational Human Potential Index (OHPI) assesses potential at all levels, examining practices, outcomes, and aspirations. Understand where we can help maximize your organization’s potential.

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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

Tillamook
Jewelers-Mutual
Crocs
Detroit-Mercy
IIRADICL
Medtronic
Deerfield
Amazon
Charles-Schwab
Anthem
McKinsey-Company
JLL
USA-Gymnastics
Trivium
pepsico
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.
Katy Snyder
Katy SnyderDean, University of Detroit Mercy
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!
Jehanzeb Noor
Jehanzeb NoorPresident & Managing Director, Trivium
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.
Elizabeth Trachte
Elizabeth TrachteCFO, Deerfield Verge
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.
Abby Carroll
Abby CarrollManager of Wellbeing at Tillamook
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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.
Trivium
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.
Deerfield-Verge
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.
Tillamook
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.
Crocs
Danone
Worked with Danone’s North American Procurement team taking them through Happiness Squad’s flourishing interventions (REWIRE + Pearl) at both the individual level and systems level (leaders). By building healthier personal and professional habits through monthly workshops, weekly touchpoints, and daily nudges, the team experienced increases in energy, productivity, satisfaction, and resiliency, while also seeing a decrease in stress levels across 130+ employees.
Danone
PepsiCo
Enhanced wellbeing and productivity across Global R&D and Strategy teams by driving improvements in workplace engagement, optimism, and prioritization through Happiness Squad's micro-practices and tailored flourishing program. Quantitatively improved stress management, productivity, creativity, and team connectivity while fostering a culture of support, resulting in measurable gains in organizational alignment and employee engagement.
Pepsico

OUR ECOSYSTEM OF EXPERTS

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Future-Forward-Institute

Meet the revolutionaries

Ashish Kothari
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.
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Jay Wolfgram
Jay Wolfgram
Principal, Client Services & SMB Segment Leader
Jay Wolfgram
Principal, Client Services & SMB Segment Leader
Jay supports client delivery and leads Happiness Squad’s SMB segment. He brings with him over 15 years of experience across management consulting, sales and high growth startups. Prior to joining Happiness Squad, Jay was a principal at Guild, a Certified B Corp in the education, skilling and career mobility space where he managed a portfolio of client relationships and helped scale the Employer Partnerships function. Before Guild, Jay was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company where he led teams developing strategic recommendations and operational implementation plans across a range of client priorities in the food and agriculture, technology, private equity, hospitality, and NGO sectors among others. Jay has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Masters in Science (MS) from the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise along with a Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Neuroscience from Middlebury College. He lives in Evergreen, Colorado and enjoys spending as much time as possible outside with his wife, Maggie, and their two children.
Amy Young
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.
Meg Stevens
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
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.
Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson
Win Win Workplace Expert
Angela Jackson
Win Win Workplace Expert
Dr. Angela Jackson is the founder of Future Forward Strategies, a labor market intelligence, design thinking, and strategy firm that assist leaders with transforming organizations and human capital infrastructure necessary for public, private, and non-profit organizations to maintain competitiveness while creating positive impact. Dr. Jackson is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches the next generation of students about entrepreneurship in the education marketplace.
Shawn Quinn
Shawn Quinn
Positive Leadership Expert
Shawn Quinn
Positive Leadership Expert
Shawn is a faculty member in Executive Education at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and co-author of Leading Innovation. Shawn help leaders and organizations move from complexity to clarity by creating spaces that invite openness, illuminate hidden truths, and inspire meaningful change. Shawn brings a balance of research-based insight and hands-on experience, and has helped Fortune 1000 companies, health systems, and government agencies strengthen resilience, alignment, and engagement.
Julien Mirivel
Julien Mirivel
Positive Communication Expert
Julien Mirivel
Positive Communication Expert
Julien C. Mirivel, Ph.D., is professor of applied communication at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, an author, and professional speaker. He is “among the founding scholars in the emerging field of positive communication” and an award-winning teacher and scholar. Julien has delivered hundreds of keynotes and workshops, published in top journals, and empowers leaders and teams to connect, inspire, and transform through ethical dialogue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a human flourishing program?
A human flourishing program is a science-backed development initiative that helps individuals and Organizations reach their fullest potential by addressing multiple drivers – Purpose, energy, adaptability, relationships and life force. The Flourishing Edge is Happiness Squad’s signature programme built on this framework.
The Flourishing Edge combines diagnostic assessments to quantify human capital losses, capability building program for team leaders to transform ways of working, personalised habit-building, group coaching, and leadership workshops. It uses our proprietary Flourishing Model to identify gaps and build sustainable practices that improve performance, engagement, and overall life satisfaction.
Organizations implementing our flourishing programmes typically experience 20-40% improvement in employee engagement, significant reductions in burnout and turnover, and measurable gains in team collaboration and innovation. Results are tracked through our assessment framework at quarterly intervals.
Yes. The Flourishing Edge is designed as a hybrid programme that works effectively for in-person, remote, and distributed teams. Digital coaching sessions, virtual workshops, and our online assessment tools ensure full accessibility regardless of team location.
Traditional engagement focuses on satisfaction and retention — whether people are happy enough to stay. Flourishing goes deeper: it measures whether people are growing, finding purpose, building positive habits, and performing at their best. Flourishing predicts sustained high performance, not just short-term satisfaction.

Frequently Asked Questions​​

A human flourishing program is a science-backed development initiative that helps individuals and Organizations reach their fullest potential by addressing multiple drivers – Purpose, energy, adaptability, relationships and life force. The Flourishing Edge is Happiness Squad’s signature programme built on this framework.

The Flourishing Edge combines diagnostic assessments to quantify human capital losses, capability building program for team leaders to transform ways of working, personalised habit-building, group coaching, and leadership workshops. It uses our proprietary Flourishing Model to identify gaps and build sustainable practices that improve performance, engagement, and overall life satisfaction.

Organizations implementing our flourishing programmes typically experience 20-40% improvement in employee engagement, significant reductions in burnout and turnover, and measurable gains in team collaboration and innovation. Results are tracked through our assessment framework at quarterly intervals.

Yes. The Flourishing Edge is designed as a hybrid programme that works effectively for in-person, remote, and distributed teams. Digital coaching sessions, virtual workshops, and our online assessment tools ensure full accessibility regardless of team location.

Traditional engagement focuses on satisfaction and retention — whether people are happy enough to stay. Flourishing goes deeper: it measures whether people are growing, finding purpose, building positive habits, and performing at their best. Flourishing predicts sustained high performance, not just short-term satisfaction.