How to Make Flourishing Your Competitive Edge

Do yourself a favor and gift yourself 12 minutes to watch this TEDx talk by Ashish Kothari, former partner at McKinsey & Company and current founder of Happiness Squad, a business centered on making companies more profitable by helping employees flourish at work.

Such a compelling talk about the importance of fostering flourishing in our own lives and in the lives of organizations. Thanks Ashish, for your wisdom and courage to move so effectively in this direction, putting muscle and means behind your ideas.

Such a powerful TEDx talk! A great lesson on flourishing and performance by helping people and teams be the best version of themselves. Thank you for this very important message about making flourishing part of the workplace, not outside of the workplace.

Take 10 minutes today to watch Ashish Kothari’s new TEDx talk. Start with the exercise at the opening: breathe and take a pulse of where you are. Deep down, you know we can work better. Deep down, you know, we can do it well -- by respecting people, sharing positive energy, and honoring our fundamental human needs.

Talk challenges us to rethink the purpose of work. Rather than merely surviving back-to-back meetings, he advocates for workplaces where individuals truly flourish—feeling energized, valued, and aligned with their purpose. This talk is a call to action for leaders to redesign work environments to enable flourishing, not as a perk but as a strategic imperative.

Joy and flourishing are siblings! Listen to this wonderful TEDx talk by Ashish Kothari as he describes his own personal transformation and how it makes the ideas that changed his life available to all of us.