Our Happy Workplaces Conference is our biggest event of the year, and we’d love for you to join us on Thursday 12th June!
Our 2025 conference will be held at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, central London. It will be filled with interaction, discussion, space for reflection and opportunities to network with others.
Check out our speakers below.
Stay informed about announcements regarding our speakers for this year’s event. As always, our speakers share practical, hands-on ideas that you can implement to create happy and engaged workplaces.
Dr. Srikumar Rao: Elite Coach and Author
Dr. Srikumar Rao is an elite coach who works with a select group of entrepreneurs, professionals and senior executives who are already successful and are now ready to make a dent in the universe. They recognise that life is a spiritual journey and wish to imbue that understanding into every facet of their lives.
Dr. Rao holds a PhD from Columbia Business School, and his courses have been among the most popular and highest rated at many of the world’s top business schools. He is the author of several books: Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful – No Matter What. His latest book is Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers’ Guide to Unstoppable Success.
Learn more about Dr. Rao’s work at The Rao Institute, or listen to his TED Talk: Plug into your hard-wired happiness.
Sophie Bryan: Founder of Ordinarily Different.
Sophie Bryan is a HR, Leadership and Workplace Culture Specialist, with a twist! She’s also trained in Human Sexuality, Sexology and Relationship Psychology. Sophie is going where no other HR professional has dared to! To talk about sexual dynamics in the workplace. How understanding human nature (such as things like power, dominance, and shame) is the source to eradicating Sexual Harassment in the workplace – not more policies and tick box training! And how, when we harness our sexual energy in positive and appropriate ways, it can create collaboration, connection and creativity at work.
In Sophie’s podcast, The Rebel Work, she talks about how we should all have happier, healthier, more productive and purposeful experiences of work.
Leanne Davis – Facilitator, Coach and Learning Adventurer at LiveLearn
Sonali Kumarakulasinghe – Facilitator, Coach and Mentor at SK Consulting
Emotions are always present at work, and they can be helpful, or unhelpful, in our behaviours, decision making, working relationships and performance. In this experiential session we will use a card deck – the Emotional Culture Deck – to take a practical and intentional approach to identify how our emotions can enable our success at work. Participants will leave the session with increased awareness of how emotions at work matter, with some actionable next steps.
You can learn more by visiting Leanne’s website LiveLearn here, and Sonali’s LinkedIn here.
Kelly McGovern – Chief Nurse
Kelly McGovern joined West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as chief nurse in July 2023. Previously, Kelly was deputy chief nurse and director of nursing of Broomfield site for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust – one of the largest acute trusts in the country with 15,000 staff.
In addition to her trust-wide role, Kelly was the director of nursing for Broomfield Hospital and also urgent and emergency care clinical director.
Kelly qualified as a nurse in 2005 and has gained a breadth of clinical leadership experience and held professional nurse leadership positions as well as more operational roles. She has worked at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, East and North Herts NHS Trust and latterly for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Ben Clarkson, Chief Finance & Operating Officer at Parkinson’s UK
Ben decided a long time ago that if he was going to spend most of his life working, he better make sure he enjoys it. Then he came across The Happy Manifesto and it all made sense! Ben has used the principles from the book across his 12+ years in the charity sector, most notably at Asthma + Lung UK where he introduced a values, behaviours, and enablers framework that implemented some of the ideas from the book. In particular, he’s a big fan of Celebrating Mistakes, Freedom within boundaries, and Recruit for attitude, train for skill.
Ben is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, and is currently Chief Finance & Operating Officer at Parkinson’s UK. He is also a trustee of the charity Contact, which supports families with disabled children. In his spare time he can be found running, either along the streets of Bromley borough, or after his three young children.
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“The speakers were so interesting and the interactivity was great, I enjoyed speaking to other attendees.”
Attendee from 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference
“I loved today’s conference, every speaker was so engaging, plenty of time for discussion and thought provoking debate. I adored the format!”
Attendee from 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference
“The conference most definitely exceeded my expectations with some very inspirational speakers.”
Attendee from 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference
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Tickets at Happy are priced at £395/£350/£300, depending on sector (not including VAT).
Your ticket will include a goody bag, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. You will also have access to Fuse, with related materials and information during and after the event.
Standard rates
Discounted rate for public sector organisations, eg. councils
Charities with 31+ staff
| Date | Availability | Number of places | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 2025 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 28 spaces left |
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