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Matthew Knight  Chief Freelance Officer and Independent Strategy Partner. Founder of Leapers and Manual of Me. YJ Freelancer of the Year. Mental health advocate. Matthew joins us to discuss Autonomy, Freedom & Employee Happiness The opportunity to operate with some autonomy strikes at the heart of the human experience. It gives us space to explore and grow, and to take ownership of our responsibil...

Matt Phelan sits down with Jenn Lim, Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Happiness Officer at Delivering Happiness and author of best seller, "Beyond Happiness". Named 'World’s Top 50 in 2023 Keynote Speaker' by Real Leaders. To discuss all things Authenticity. Authenticity in this context is a state of human expression, whilst Acceptance is the response we get. Being allowed to be authentic allows people t...

Seeing our personal development and career development journeys translate into new job responsibilities is a great source of sustainable motivation. It provides the emotional reward that validates our efforts and keeps us on track. Taking ownership of increased or different responsibilities is a meaningful challenge that supports our sense of moving forward. Ben RainforthGott Director of People &...

To maintain a sense of momentum we need to feel appropriately challenged in our roles. The key is achieving the right balance. Feeling a little outside of our personal comfort zone is a good place for personal growth as we have to engage our wider potential to succeed. If this goes too far, we will retreat into survival mode, where we resist change and new demands. CHRO of the year and board advis...

We are designed to evolve and grow, whilst standing still results in stagnation and inflexibility. People therefore need opportunities to expand their experience and expose themselves to new learning. This helps us feel engaged. Experiencing novelty is an important element of keeping the brain alert. Andrew MacAskill CCO at Fraser Dove International and LinkedIn change maker shares his expertise o...

The Happiness Index internal culture team of HR pro Laura Page, Co-Founder and technologist Tony Latter and Head of Neuroscience Clive discuss the impact of energetic on our working relationships. Feeling energetically connected to our colleagues is that sense of just understanding each other. We are on the same wavelength and naturally click. In the calmer state this is empathy, and when we are e...

The Happiness Index internal culture team of HR pro Laura Page, Co-Founder and technologist Tony Latter and Head of Neuroscience Clive discuss the impact of work life balance This is another area that has hugely been impacted by the pandemic and the digital revolution. With everyone carrying a phone with more computing power than the first spaceship that carried humanity to the moon it can be hard...

HR expert Phil Burgess sits down with Matt Phelan to discuss how Trust and Safety are key drivers of Employee Happiness People need to feel trust to be able to commit themselves emotionally to an organisation. They need to feel trusted and be able to trust those they work with. Our sensory intelligence system constantly surveys our environment and is very sensitive to factors such as tension, supp...

HR expert, entrepreneur and author Natasha Wallace sits down with our host Matt Phelan to discuss how to create a work environment that drives employee happiness. People need to feel that their physical working environment is safe, that it poses no danger either in terms of conditions or access. It also includes emotional safety, such as freedom from bullying, prejudice or psychological abuse.

Head of People Nadia Vatalidis sits down to share her wisdom with our host Matthew Phelan who is co-founder of The Happiness Index. Nadia discusses her career in working in the fast pace tech world. Nadia shares insight from her career and her thoughts on building in public. This episode is wide ranging and covers a wide spectrum from inclusion through to advice on how best to support your people....

Matt Phelan author of Freedom to be Happy the Business case for Happiness and Karen Robinson sit down to discuss the importance of feedback on employee happiness. Karen is a senior business leader with 15 years exp. Karen is a mentor, coach and trainer. Karen gives her expert view on how to give and receive feedback. Regular feedback is a vital component of emotional sustainability and growth. Get...

Happiness and Humans Host Matt Phelan Interviews Global head of Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging at ISS on the importance of employees feeling listened to. When we express a thought or feeling it is important to us that our views are heard. This is a subtle, yet critical, experience that helps us understand our impact on the world. Not being listened to is a form of sensory deprivation that i...

Our host and entrepreneur Matthew Phelan interview's employee recognition expert Simon Berry. Simon is one of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts in both employee recognition and reward. Simon also helped design the Employee recognition impact Index that sits within The Happiness Index's Employee Engagement platform. Recognition informs us that we are doing things right, which in...

Tech founders Matthew Phelan of The Happiness Index and Sultan Murad Saidov of Beamery sit down to discuss Sultan's journey from childhood to founding the  UK's latest tech unicorn.  Sultan Murad Saidov is Co-Founder and President of Beamery, the leading Talent Lifecycle Management Platform. Prior to Beamery, Sultan worked at Goldman Sachs.  He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Uni...

With layoffs being announced across the globe Walter Peterscheck felt compelled to share his story of being let go twice in his career. This episode is designed to help both the individual being let go and the company in how to do this in a supportive way.  Walter is motivated to help people being made redundant continue with their career and prosper. The last 3 years have been a tough struggle fo...

Tim Lomas is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the author of Translating Happiness- A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being. His work has been featured in Time, the New Yorker, Vox, Scientific American, and the Atlantic. Tim discusses his new paper The Architecture of Happiness. Happiness is an increasingly prominent topic of interest across academia. H...

Dr Hayley Lewis is on the HR Most Influential 2022. Hayley is a chartered psychologist, coach, University lecturer & Sketchnote doodler. Hayley describes herself as a pracademic making psychology accessible. Matt and Hayley discuss Happiness, HR and modern Psychology in the word of work

Matt Phelan and guest Laura Campbell discuss health, neuroscience, gut microbiota, food & nutrition, mental health, alcohol, mood & sleep. Laura discusses her own health journey that covers serious subjects such as anorexia, diet and the importance of getting the right information and advice on subjects related to your own health. This is a wide ranging conversation covering many areas related to...

Kashi Chellen takes over as Happiness and Humans host to interview Matt Phelan on his TedX Brighton talk. The talk is titled 12 Million Lessons in Happiness. Matt uses a concept called The Super Happiness Suit with in built emotional deflector field to discuss what has been learnt from data collected by The Happiness Index via their Employee Engagement and Happiness Platform. The talk covers learn...

Matt Phelan and Amanda Henwood discuss Amanda's research into subjective Well-being Amanda's research focuses on exploring the links between well-being, cognition and behaviour. Amanda uses a mixed methodological approach, combining field and lab experiments, to investigate potential well-being related mechanisms underpinning people’s responses to online cognitive and behavioural interventions, wi...

Matt Phelan from the Happiness Index an employee engagement and happiness platform sits down with Tracey Smith-Atkins, Robert Black & Alex Rowlands to discuss what it is like to work in a job where death is a daily part of the employee experience. We discover we can learn from this sector from the perspective of a CEO, HR professional and a Technology evangelist. 

Bianca Cefalo of Space DOTS sits down with Matthew Phelan to discuss entrepreneurship, happiness and new space. Bianca discusses her career, organisational culture, her co-founders and what it is like to be an entrepreneur in the space industry. BIO Space Scientist & Engineer Developing the next generation of telecommunications in space, and advocate for girls in STEM.

Melissa Thorpe is the inspirational Head of Spaceport Cornwall and sits down with the Co-Founder of the Happiness Index Matt Phelan. Melissa discusses her career, her leadership tips, how kindness is an important part of success and also gives insight on how to start a career in the Space industry. Melissa discusses her twin passions of nature and space and how they plan to run a UK space port tha...

In this episode guest host Patrick Phelan who is a Happiness Index founding employee interviews Co-founder Matt Phelan on The Happiness Index's crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Pat asks Matt the following questions. What makes you happy? Why Seedrs? Why fundraising? What is crowdfunding? How does it work? Can people still get involved? What does the future of THI look like?  This episode is p...

Njabulo Mashigo Executive Director | International HR Executive | Non Executive Director of Vodacom part of the Vodafone family sits down with Matt Phelan to discuss everything from employee happiness through to how to build a successful career in HR.  Matt Phelan the Co-Founder of The Happiness Index and host of the Happiness and Humans podcast asks Njabulo the following questions.  What makes yo...