Happiness is a Serious Business

We often treat happiness at work as a bonus - something nice if you can get it, but not essential. This session flips that thinking on its head.

In this interactive masterclass, happiness expert Nic Marks will show how a positive emotional culture is not just good for people, it's good for business. Backed by data and lived experience, Nic will guide you through the link between happiness, collaboration, resilience and sales performance. Happy teams don’t just feel better - they work better, think better, and deliver more consistent results.

You’ll explore how to measure and improve happiness at work, using practical tools you can take back to your team. And you'll learn why using time more wisely, not spending more money is the smartest investment you can make.

This isn’t about forced smiles or surface-level perks. It’s about creating real, lasting conditions where people thrive and perform at their best. Nic will also share a framework to assess your own work happiness and start meaningful conversations across your team.

You will learn:

• Happiness is a highly functional positive emotion
• Happy employees add more value (more collaborative, creative, resilient and sell more)
• If you invest in happiness, you invest in success (the only cost is using time better)

Agenda

1. Introduction
2. What is happiness anyway
3. Happiness at work
4. Your happiness at work
5. Discussing in small groups your happiness at work
6. Group discussion reflections on part one
7. How happiness adds value including lowering costs of sales
8. How could happiness add value in your teams
9. Groups share insights
10. How to build happy teams
11. Q&A, learnings and wrap up

🗣 Masterclass host:

Nic Marks - The Happiness Statistician

Nic Marks is a pioneering figure in the field of workplace wellbeing, often described as “The Happiness Statistician” for his unique blend of data and emotional insight. Originally trained in mathematics, statistics, and therapy, he founded the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation, where he developed influential frameworks such as the Happy Planet Index and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. His TED talk on happiness has been viewed millions of times, and he authored one of the first TEDBooks, A Happiness Manifesto.

As founder of Friday Pulse, Nic helps organisations measure and improve team happiness through science-led weekly feedback. His forthcoming book, Happiness is a Serious Business, explores why happy teams perform better—and how leaders can create the conditions for both people and organisations to thrive. He lives near Stonehenge with his wife and is happiest walking chalk paths, listening to music, or occasionally diving into a good dataset.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksnic/

https://nicmarks.org

Youngling/Warrior/Wolf members attend at no extra cost! Please note, we do check ticket types so please only select this ticket option if you are indeed a paying member.

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🎫 This masterclass is for:

• Business owners, people leaders, team leaders, sales people.

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