Investing in Happiness: Improving Your Business and Work Through Brain Science

Overview

Businesses often talk around happiness, instead using terms like satisfaction, well-being and engagement. By not specifically measuring, addressing and nurturing happiness, businesses bear the costs in terms of lost productivity, employee absenteeism and turnover, higher insurance rates, missed opportunities, and reduced profits.

With this in mind, Dr. Jay utilizes scientifically proven insights, exercises and techniques—adapted from cutting-edge research in brain science and behavior—to transform the way you and your team think and work. He is the former Director of Contemplative Practices and Wellbeing at Chapman University and holds a Ph.D. in cognitive studies and Eastern religions, and an M.A. in international political economy with a concentration in international business.

As a renowned thought leader and public speaker, Dr. Jay counsels organizations and businesses on harnessing the art and science of happiness for both short- and long-term success. Clients across the globe—from lean startups to large corporations—have benefited from his highly effective, easy-to-learn and scientifically proven insights and techniques.

What will I get from this course?

• Humanize your organizational messages and actions in a larger context.
• Unlock the brain’s ability to build social connections and trust among teams, co-workers, customers and other stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for creating deeper, more meaningful relationships.
• Using brain science, learn how four fundamental strategies can help you promote happiness in the workplace and, ultimately, your bottom line.
• Discover how to align business, brand strategy and management styles to boost how you engage key audiences.
• Whether customers, employees, vendors, or other stakeholders, develop methods and approaches that make key constituencies enthusiastic about your company and its products and services.
• Create passionate members of your “Brand or Company Tribe.”
• Find ways to transform the people who matter most to your success into champions and advocates who make your company—and your products and services—stand out in the marketplace.