Asha Lalai

WOHASU Happiness Ambassador Netherlands, Chapter Director Action for Happiness Nederland and One Billion Happy

Asha Lalai is a social-driven entrepreneur with the higher purpose of increasing awareness about the highest level of human growth: happiness. Over the last 19 years, Asha has shared her insights and vision on issues related to happiness. She has become a leader, passionate speaker, life and business happiness trainer and the initiator of a growing happiness movement.

In 2015, Asha was appointed by Professor Lord Richard Layard and Mark Williamson of the worldwide Action for Happiness movement to serve as the founding director of the Dutch chapter. www.actionforhappiness.org

Recently, Asha was also appointed by Mo Gawdat, Executive at Google X and author of Solve for Happy, to work together on the mission: www.onebillionhappy.org

Her personal happiness journey includes professional work experience, interest for scientific knowledge, deeply rooted interest in ancient wisdom, and teachings to more than thousands individuals over the years. Her work has inspired her to understand that many personal lives, organizations and societies are based upon the false persuasion that, our life circumstances are the key to happiness and happiness comes from (financial) success.

Asha is convinced that if we use the scientific knowledge about the causes of happiness, which adds significantly to ancient wisdom, we could raise the collective awareness of happiness and contribute to a greater happiness for a greater number of people in their lives at home, at work, in society and beyond.

Asha has been an independent advisor and trainer since 1998 to CEO’s, entrepreneurs and leaders on personal and business growth. As part of this role, she works on happiness related projects in the field of: Social Innovation, Business & Human development, Leadership, Employee Engagement and Customer-Happiness.

Flora Victoria

Founder of Sociedade Brasileira de Coaching and CEO of SBCOACHING Training, Master of Applied Positive Psychology (University of Pennsylvania).

Flora is the educational director of the SBCOACHING Group, entrepreneur, master coach, writer and speaker with more than 10.000 practice hours. For many years, Flora has been contributing massively for the training of more than 25.000 coaches who are capable of dealing with the challenges of developing individuals, teams and companies – a resounding path that makes of her the pioneer in Positive Psychology in Brazil.

With more than 20 years of experience as a high-level executive in the corporative world – in multinational companies such as Volkswagen, Ford, Bellsouth and Claro as well as in the areas of Technology, Finance, Strategic Planning and Corporative Governance –, Flora is the author of several technical books on coaching, which have been developed upon scientific grounding and results proof. Her methodology, named Executive Coaching, was appointed in 2014 by the Sherpa Executive Coaching Survey as the second executive coaching methodology most used in the world.

As a researcher and founder of the Institute of Positive Coaching Research (IPCR), she fosters coaching research around Brazil, acting as a bridge between research organizations all over the world. Also, she is the publisher and chief-editor of the Brazilian Journal of Coaching, the first publication of this kind in Brazil that promotes the dissemination of the academic approach to coaching.

As the founder of the SBCOACHING Social, an organization aimed at leveraging human flourishing, she restates her mission to build a more integral, sustainable and concordant society. She wrote the book Semeando Felicidade, that is used as a workbook in the social projects.

Main areas of activity: Positive Psychology, Human Flourishing, Well-being and Happiness; Coaching, Positive Psychology Coaching, Business and Executive Coaching; Personal Development, Human Performance, Life Coaching; Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Leadership Development, Culture Change, Corporate Performance and Productivity; Public Speaking, Training, Education; Social Change, Philanthropy.

Lesley Lyle

WOHASU Happiness Ambassador UK, Director of Positive Psychology Online Courses, co-founder of The Positive Psychology People and Associate Lecturer on the MSc Applied Positive Psychology Programme at Buckinghamshire New University, UK

Lesley Lyle is a published author and uniquely qualified in positive psychology (MAPP), Clinical Hypnosis (Dip HE) and Laughter Therapy. In her wellbeing clinic, she specializes in helping people overcome stress and anxiety and find more meaning, purpose and happiness in life. She is also a regular guest on BBC radio, TV and author of Laugh Your Way to Happiness. Currently, she is co-author of a (soon to be published) book, on Existential Positive Psychology.