My guest today is Jessica Lyonford. Jessica Lyonford is a designer of happiness. As a speaker, consultant, and coach, she helps leaders and teams transform workplace culture by turning happiness into their greatest leadership advantage. Blending science, real-world experience, and actionable insights, she shows organizations how to create environments where people thrive—because when people flourish, businesses succeed. Her keynotes and workshops bring the science of happiness and human flourishing to life, supercharging collaboration, creativity, and results. She works with leaders to design processes, systems, and cultures that energize and empower—not just at work, but in every area of life. In this episode we discuss happy leadership, happiness coaching, gratitude, compassion and the eight pillars of happiness.
Website: https://www.jessicalyonford.com/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/themorehappycoach
FB - https://www.facebook.com/projectmorehappy/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyonford/
In this episode you will learn:
1. What the 8 pillars of happiness are.
2. Some actionable happiness power-ups you can apply today.
3. How curiosity can help build team morale and alignment instantly.
“My entire mission is to put more happiness, enable more happiness, add more happiness to the world and so I help organizations and leaders create more happiness in their spaces so that they can flourish, so their teams can flourish, but it's all about creating more happiness using the science that we have. "- 00:02:14
“Happiness is a skill. It is a skill set." - 00:22:02
“We have a lot more power than we think we do as humans and we can show up better for one another and we can show up better for ourselves and our world.” 00:51:08
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