IN-PERSON | Happy Leadership Series | Part 2: The Eight Pillars of Happiness – Leading with Confidence, Curiosity & Connection

Leadership isn’t just about strategy—it’s about energy. Happy leaders don’t just create results; they create cultures where people flourish. This interactive three-part series, based on The Happy Leader Playbook, explores the science of happiness as a leadership advantage, offering practical tools to supercharge energy, engagement and impact.

Through research-backed insights, guided exercises, and real-world application, participants will learn how to lead with purpose, optimism, and resilience—without burnout.

Each session includes 40 minutes of content + 20 minutes of discussion and reflection, ensuring leaders leave with actionable takeaways they can apply immediately.

Part 2: The Eight Pillars of Happiness – Leading with Confidence, Curiosity & Connection

Key Focus:

• The Eight Pillars of Happiness – Core leadership habits for engagement & impact
• How confidence, authenticity & curiosity fuel trust and innovation
• Practical ways to design a leadership style that lifts others up

📌 Interactive Exercise: Happiness Audit

✅ Takeaway: Align leadership with personal strengths to lead with more purpose & joy

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Jessica Lyonford is a designer of happiness. As a best-selling author, speaker, consultant and coach, she helps leaders and teams transform workplace culture by turning happiness into their greatest leadership advantage. Her book, The Happy Leader Playbook: A Science-Backed Guide to Supercharging Energy and Impact, is a go-to resource for purpose-driven leaders ready to lead with both heart and results.

Blending science, real-world experience and actionable insights, Jessica shows organizations how to create environments where people truly 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.

Jessica’s approach is both engaging and deeply practical, proving that happiness is a powerful strategy for impact. Through The Eight Pillars of Happiness and practical Power-Ups, she helps leaders fuel energy, engagement and success in ways that are both sustainable and transformational.

For tools and resources to design a life—and leadership—for happiness, visit www.jessicalyonford.com.