How To Make Your Workforce Engaged And Happy? Henry Stewart Has A Happy Manifesto (MDE212)

Minter Dialogue with Henry Stewart

This interview is with Henry Stewart, founder and CEO of the London-based training business Happy Ltd. Happy was rated one of the top 20 workplaces in the UK for 5 successive years and now helps other organisations create happy workplaces. In 2011 Henry was listed in the Guru Radar of the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential business thinkers in the world. Henry is also the author of the book, The Happy Manifesto. In this conversation we discuss some of the key principles for making a work place a happier space, what are the conditions for success and explore some specific cases.

Office sign at Happy: When it rains look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.

Below, you’ll find the show notes and, of course, you are invited to comment. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.

To connect with Henry Stewart:

• You can find Henry on Twitter: @HappyHenry
• You can send an email to Henry Stewart here
• Find Henry’s blog and his Happy Manifesto

Site(s) mentioned by Henry:

• Project Oxygen from Google – HBR article by David Garvin
• Authors Alex Edmans, Lucius Li, Chendi Zhang – Report showing that employee satisfaction leads to higher stock returns

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Music credit: The jingle at the beginning of the show is courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. And, the new sign off music is “Finger Paint,” written and performed by Josh Saxe, produced by Chase Geiser. Here’s a link on iTunes. I invite you to take a spin on Pierre’s podcast or listen to more of Josh’s music!