Podcast: More Than a Feeling, How Improving Happiness Can Improve Your Business, with Valerie Alexander
It’s fair to say that happiness is something most people strive for. But all too often, happiness is something businesses overlook. As Valerie Alexander, Founder and CEO of Speak Happiness, businesses do so at their own peril. Having happier employees deliver all kinds of benefits to a company including reduced turnover, less shrinkage and better customer service.
In this talk, Alexander breaks down:
- The three questions she asks to identify employee happiness
- The impact of happiness on corporate success
- Building happiness across generations
So come on world, there’s a song that we’re singin’. Come on get happy! (You’ll be happy with the results).
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About the Speaker:
As a globally-recognized speaker on the topics of happiness in the workplace, the advancement of women, and identity & inclusion, and as a corporate culture consultant, specializing in assessing workplace happiness and training leaders how to maximize it, Valerie Alexander is committed to expanding happiness and inclusion in all communities.
Valerie was the 2016 commencement speaker for her undergraduate alma mater, Trinity University, giving the inspirational talk, “Tiger at Heart,” and her TED Talk, “How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias,” has been viewed over a million times and is used as a teaching tool in board rooms and classrooms around the world.
Her career started in the Silicon Valley as a corporate securities lawyer, investment banker and Internet executive, then transitioned to Hollywood, where she enjoyed success as a screenwriter and director, with all of those career paths culminating in her work as the CEO of Speak Happiness, delivering compelling keynotes, effective leadership training, and eye-opening assessments to corporate, nonprofit, educational and government clients.
Valerie and her husband live outside Atlanta with their exuberant German Shepherd, Vegas, Baby!
