Happiness
What does happiness have to do with leadership? Everything. Because leadership isn’t just about results — it’s about how it feels along the way. These articles explore how emotional well-being, fulfillment, and purpose directly impact leadership effectiveness, team performance, and organizational culture.
Grounded in both research and lived experience, these resources help leaders nurture well-being, find meaning in their work, and cultivate joy — for themselves and their teams.
Explore lessons in happiness, everyday mindfulness, and simple gratitude practices that make a real difference. Discover practical strategies and reflective insights that support happier, healthier leadership. Start here to lead with more joy, connection, and authenticity.
Why a rhythm-based approach to the new year can lead to more sustainable, intentional leadership. Try these seven micro-practices to create values-aligned leadership rhythms.
Whether you want to lower your stress, lose weight, get healthier, or improve your mood, relationships, finances, or career, consider making one of these New Year’s resolutions to make a meaningful difference in your life this year.
With meditation and mindfulness practiced nowadays by CEOs, surgeons, and high-achievers everywhere, it is easy to take the practice too seriously. Truthfully, mindfulness in practice can be very simple. Learn ways to practice informal mindfulness to help you find greater creativity, productivity, and focus in your life.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, but don’t know how to end the cycle of stress, you may be burned out. Take this mini quiz to find out where you are on the burnout scale – and get some ideas for what you can do about it to help you find more balance.
If you could pinpoint one thing that makes you happy, what would it be? Find out what the research team at Harvard discovered after sifting through data from a 75-year study on happiness.
While gratitude is well known for its ability to fight a case of the blues, it isn’t always easy to practice — particularly during stressful times. Choose one of these six easy ways to get your daily dose of gratitude.
An intention is a guiding principle for how you want to show up in the world, and a way to bring heart and mind into alignment.
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