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We are grateful and honored for the amazing experts who have participated at the World Happiness Summit since 2017.
Anna is the Head of Psychosocial Health and Well-being at Siemens AG, shaping its global strategy since 2021. She is at the forefront of developing Siemens’ global mental well-being and health strategy, orchestrating various initiatives to improve mental well-being within the organization. Anna leads the work well-being approach at Siemens and drives its strategic integration throughout the company.
Anna is convinced that well-being goes far beyond the individual, but it is about organizing managing and designing work in a way that supports well-being. With over 15 years of experience in organizational development, Anna has a rich background in well-being, health, and safety. She began her career in academia and later transitioned to consulting for multinational companies, focusing on holistic well-being, mental health and safety management.
Raj Sisodia is Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business (on leave) at Babson College, and Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He has a Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. Raj is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013) and Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015). He was named one of “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University in 2016 and the Business Luminary Award from Halcyon in 2021. He has served on the boards of Mastek and The Container Store.
Raj has published fifteen books, including Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, which was named a top business book of 2007 by Amazon.com. His most recent books are The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World and The Global Rule of Three: Competing with Conscious Strategy, and the forthcoming Awaken: A Journey to Purpose, Wholeness and Healing. Raj has consulted with and taught at numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Tesoro, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart, McDonalds and Southern California Edison.
Diana serves as Unilever’s Chief Health & Wellbeing Officer. She leads the global team responsible for the health and wellbeing of Unilever’s 100,000+ employees operating in 190 countries. Prior to Unilever, Diana was the Chief Medical Officer for GE’s consumer businesses, where she oversaw global healthcare delivery and health and leave benefits.
Diana trained in Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the Advisory Council of the World Wellbeing Movement; on the Board of the Business Group on Health, and on the US Federal Reserve Bank’s Healthcare Industry Council.
Lauren von Stackelberg is an entrepreneurial Equity Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing leader, founder, board member, and charity trustee with experience in complex, multinational environments across six continents in Consumer, Manufacturing, Technology, Travel and Financial Services.
As The LEGO Group’s first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer and Global Head of Wellbeing, she brings a robust track record of inventing and driving new commercial initiatives that build equity and inclusion at scale including Tate & Lyle’s first EDI strategy, Expedia’s first I&D strategy, J.P. Morgan’s first client diversity strategy and first global gender diversity program, and a Micro-Fund in Ghana. Lauren co-founded three businesses and intra-industry networks across start-up investing (SuperPitch), finance (WealthiHer) and travel (CEO Action Inclusive Travel Group) to drive collaborative progress and change at an industry level for EDI. Lauren is on the Diversity Advisory Board for Delivery Hero, Trustee and Chair of the Nominations Committee for education technology charity, Founders4Schools, a Founding Member of Chief in the UK, and Committee Member on D&I for the Confederation of Danish Industry.
A vocal advocate for sharing EDI best practices, she is a regular public speaker and guest lecturer at London Business School. Lauren is a recognized force for social change who received multiple industry awards including the Chief ED&I Officer of the Year, Highly Commended Head of Diversity, Most Influential D&I Leader, Forbes 30 under 30, Forbes All Star Alumni, Future Leaders Top 100, and Management Today 35 under 35. A global citizen, Lauren has personal experience living and working in 12+ countries including the UK, US, Uruguay, Singapore, Spain, Russia, India, Ghana, El Salvador, China, Costa Rica and Argentina.
Sheila is accountable for continuously evolving the Global Wellbeing Strategy that drives a Conscious Culture of holistic wellbeing for leaders, teams and individuals at Cisco. Sheila joined Cisco in 2000 and has held numerous roles across the organization and has spent most of her career in People & Communities.
Sheila’s passion lies in caring and supporting people through holistic and inclusive wellbeing offerings across the globe. As Global Head of Wellbeing she is a thought-leader, developing unique collaborations and integration opportunities with Cisco business leaders, wellbeing vendors and partners.
Sheila’s accountability for the vision and governance of wellbeing across the globe in Cisco ensures alignment with business objectives, meeting employee expectations, and driving continuous improvement. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and subject matter experts Sheila designs, develops, and delivers high-quality offerings and experiences to ensure wellbeing is a business imperative. Passionate about caring for and supporting people, she champions inclusive, whole-person wellbeing approaches that meet the needs of a diverse global workforce.
In her spare time, Sheila loves being with her family and friends. Her passion and love of sport, caring for people, is embedded into her everyday life where she takes care of herself and those around her to role model her work on wellbeing for all.
Fred Luskin serves as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
In addition, Fred’s work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He presents lectures, workshops, seminars and trainings on the importance, health benefits and training of forgiveness, stress management and emotional competence throughout the United States. He offers presentations and classes that range from one hour to ongoing weekly trainings.
Dr. Elia Gourgouris also known as America’s Happiness Doctor, is an International Keynote speaker & the author of the #1 best-selling Amazon book, 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness. He’s the President and co-founder of The Kindness Factor International which recently produced the highly acclaimed documentary feature film called For Such A time As This on the impact of kindness worldwide! The first half of his career he built a thriving private practice as a Clinical Psychologist (all word of mouth) before moving on to become an Executive Coach working with C-Suite leaders.
With his Positive Psychology background and through his books, Keynotes, podcast interviews (350+ worldwide) and Executive Coaching he has helped hundreds of thousands of people both in their careers and in their relationships to achieve happiness and success in their personal and professional lives. As an inspirational speaker, he frequently presents at international conferences focusing on Happiness, Corporate Wellness & Mental Health. He’s the host of a new TV show called The Happy Hour w/ Dr. Elia on the Mental Health Television Network. He splits his time between the US and Greece/Europe.
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Iliana Grosse-Buening is an entrepreneur, author, advisor and speaker, working at the intersection of technology, ethics, and human flourishing.
With over a decade of experience leading human-centred innovation across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, Iliana advises Fortune 500 companies, global charities, and universities on digital well-being, AI ethics, and responsible innovation.
Iliana is the Co-Founder & CEO of Deeply Human Innovation, a strategy, research and design firm helping organisations embed humanity-centred thinking into strategy, systems, and next-generation technologies.
She is an Adjunct Professor for Digital Well-being at IE University & Business School, an Affiliate to the IE UNESCO Chair for AI Ethics & Governance, and on the Committee of the IEEE Global AI Systems Well-being & Flourishing Initiative. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Springer Nature and De Gruyter.
Dr. Sood is a former Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Director of the Mind-Body Medicine Initiative, and the current CEO of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing. He is internationally known for his work on stress management, resilience, wellbeing, mindfulness, and burnout. Dr. Sood has authored or co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and has authored multiple books including The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness, Immerse: A 52-Week Course in Resilient Living, Mindfulness Redesigned for the Twenty-First Century, Stronger, and SMART with Dr. Sood. Dr. Sood received the 2010 Distinguished Service Award, the 2010 Innovator of the Year Award, the 2013 Outstanding Physician Scientist Award and the 2016 Faculty of the Year Award from Mayo Clinic. He also was honored as the Robert Wood Johnson Health Care Pioneer in 2015. The Intelligent Optimist (formerly Ode Magazine) selected Dr. Sood as one among top 20 intelligent optimists helping the world to be a better place. Dr. Sood serves on the wellbeing advisory board for Everyday Health, scientific advisory board for Thrive Global, and is a fellow with the Atria Academy of Science and Medic
Richard Layard is a British labor economist, currently working as program director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. His early career focused on how to reduce unemployment and inequality. Richard was Senior Research Officer for the famous Robbins Committee on Higher Education. This committee’s report led to the massive expansion of UK university education in the 1960s and 1970s.
Following research on happiness begun in the 1970s by economists such as Richard Easterlin at the University of Southern California, he has written about the economics of happiness, with one theme being the importance of non-income variables on aggregate happiness, including mental health. Richard is co-editor of the World Happiness Report and Global Policy Report, and co-founder of Action for Happiness.
Robert Biswas-Diener is widely known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology” because his research on happiness, empathy and other topics has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel. Robert’s interest in happiness focuses on culture, material simplicity, and public policy. He has written more than 50 scholarly articles on these topics and is author of eight books including Happiness (2008), The Courage Quotient (2012), and The Upside of Your Dark Side (2015).
Robert is also a leading authority on positive psychology coaching and widely recognized as a pioneering voice in this field. Robert occupies a unique position in the world of positive psychology as he is both a published researcher and a practicing ICF certified coach. He regulatory trains professionals around the world in the application of positive psychology. His clients have included Standard Chartered Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Australian Department of Defense, Deloitte, and many others.
Alla Klymenko is known in Eastern Europe and abroad as a psychologist and happiness educator who has been studying well-being, goal setting, and mindfulness for over ten years. Her lectures, workshops, and seminars help thousands of people become more successful, happier and radically change their outlook on life. Her goal is to make a billion people around the world happier.
Alla believes in cultivating equal access to education on positive psychology, depression prevention, and well-being for populations across the globe. Being a pioneer in Eastern Europe’s happiness movement, her every speech and presentation is an inspirational show. As a motivational speaker with live audiences ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands, her unique presentations and classes touched the hearts of thousands of people.
Alla is the author of workshops, seminars, and online courses attended by participants from Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and Northern America. She also published several unique self-improvement workbooks and inspirational journals – Happy Me Journal, Thank You Diary, and Dream Year Book. She is the co-founder and head coach of Eastern Europe’s largest self-improvement summer camp, Upgrade Yourself Camp.
A featured guest on a variety of podcasts, she hosts Alla and Happiness YouTube channel (with 158 thousand followers) with motivational speeches and interviews with the world’s leading experts in the fields of happiness and well-being – Karen Guggenheim, Tal Ben-Shahar, Mo Gawdat, Fred Luskin, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Michael Roach, Joe Vitale, John Gray, and many others.
Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alla joined forces with the world’s leading speakers, Tal Ben-Shahar, Marci Shimoff, and others, to create the Two Happy Weeks online course aimed at maintaining a positive attitude amidst challenging global events to support the affected population during the period of turbulence.
A graduate of Harvard College and a former teaching fellow for Tal Ben-Shahar’s Positive Psychology class, Sara Blanchard has been melding the worlds of happiness and social justice for the better part of a decade. She is a facilitator, writer, certified life coach, and TEDx speaker, author of Flex Mom, co-author of Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism, and the co-founder of Dear White Women, a social justice platform. Sara is both Japanese and white, is married to a white Canadian man, and is raising their two multi-ethnic girls to be compassionate, thoughtful advocates. They live in Denver, Colorado with their incredibly lovable dog.
Sandro Formica, Ph.D., is the lead professor of the Hospitality Leadership major and the principal executive education trainer at Florida International University, specializing in Positive Organizational Behavior and Human Capital Development. He has designed, tested, and implemented Positive Organizational Interventions (POIs) to help companies in the U.S. and internationally enhance performance, trust, engagement, belonging, and teamwork in a sustainable way.
He is also the creator of the H+AI FLOW™ methodology, a practical framework that helps organizations thrive by aligning human potential and emotional agility with the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.
Sandro has trained executives and entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries—including logistics, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, and human resources—for companies such as DHL, Philip Morris, Accor, Manpower Group, and LVMH. As a keynote speaker, he has delivered talks to leading organizations including PwC, Illy Caffè, Forbes, and Expedia.
Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement and a leading voice in promoting the science and practice of wellbeing. She is the founder and CEO of WOHASU®, and the visionary behind the World Happiness Summit®—recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top 5 Leadership Summits in the World.” Since its launch in 2016, WOHASU has grown into a global movement uniting thought leaders, expanding transformational ideas, providing training, and increasing social connection across cultures and industries.
After experiencing a profound personal loss, Karen made the life-changing decision to dedicate her work to creating a legacy rooted in wellbeing and purpose. That choice led her to become an unexpected entrepreneur, founding WOHASU in 2016 to launch the first World Happiness Summit. Today, WOHASU’s in-person events have reached thousands of attendees from over 80 countries.
Karen creates transformative experiences that blend evidence-based science, storytelling, and community building. She works with multinational corporations, nonprofits, and school systems to embed wellbeing into leadership, culture, and education.
In 20225, Karen created the Tech for Good™ Human Flourishing in the AI Era to add to WOHASU’s Summit Collection and expand on its mission to expand the ripples of the science wellbeing.
She spearheaded the WOHASU® Wellbeing Leadership Certification, a groundbreaking initiative launched in the third-largest public school district in the U.S., reaching over 400,000 students and 34,000 employees. The program equips leaders with practical tools to reduce burnout, increase engagement, and build happier, more resilient schools.
Karen is also the founder of the WOHASU Wellbeing Foundation, a nonprofit focused on systemic change. Through the foundation, she created the World Wellbeing Policy Forum, an international platform to elevate the conversation on the economics and public policy of wellbeing in business, education, and government.
She is the author of Cultivating Happiness: Overcome Trauma and Positively Transform Your Life, a TEDx speaker, a board member of the World Wellbeing Movement, and an advisory board member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
Karen holds an MBA from Georgetown University. Her work has been featured in CNN, CNN en español, The Financial Times, The Telegraph, BBC, Univision, Forbes, Fast Company, and other global media. She lives in Miami and speaks internationally in both English and Spanish.
Laura Marciano is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Media School, in Bloomington and an associate at the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She leads research on digital media and teen well-being, including the HappyB projects and the Health and Happiness Study, using methods like Ecological Momentary Assessments, trace data, and digital biomarkers. She also directs a science communication project combining research with arts-based activities and serves on the board of the IBSA Foundation in Switzerland. Laura has authored over 45 publications, including the book Smartphone: Ally or Enemy?, and her work has been featured in the New York Times.
Introducing Nic Marks, statistician, author, TED speaker and founder of Friday Pulse™. Nic specializes in using the science of wellbeing to help individuals, businesses, and governments to track happiness.
Nic is a unique statistician with an unusual specialty – happiness. He has been working to create measures of people’s quality of life for the past three decades, with an emphasis on their emotional experience and happiness.
Nic trained as a statistician, studying Mathematics, Economics and Management Studies at Cambridge University, and then completing his MSc at the University of Lancaster. Since then, he has been on a mission to measure wellbeing and create lasting, positive change.
You can find out more about Nic at his website: https://nicmarks.org
Dr. Neha Sangwan, CEO of Intuitive Intelligence is an Internal Medicine physician, international speaker and corporate communication expert who empowers people toward better health by teaching them practical communication tools to strengthen their relationships, decrease their stress, improve their health and save them time.
Neha earned a B.S. in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Michigan State University, attended the State University of New York at Buffalo for medical school, and completed her residency training at Temple University Hospital. She worked in the hospital for a decade before founding Intuitive Intelligence, her private practice and corporate consulting firm, where she integrates the science of medicine and the art of communication to empower her clients to improve their health and their lives.
Neha is also the author of TalkRx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations that Create Connection, Health and Happiness. To learn more, visit Doctorneha.com.
Ellen Langer was the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, where she is still professor of psychology. She is recipient of three Distinguished Scientists awards, and the Arthur W. Staats Award for
Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Liberty Science Genius Award, and has published over 200 research articles and thirteen books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness and her most recent book, The Mindful Body: Thinking our way to chronic health. She is known worldwide as the “mother of mindfulness, the “mother of positive psychology” and the mother of mind/body medicine
She is also a gallery exhibiting painter, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Brinleigh Murphy-Reuter is a leading voice on how AI shapes public wellbeing. She is the Founder & CEO of Science To People, a public-benefit incubator developing the technology infrastructure for modern science and health communication. Through the VeriSci suite of products, her team is creating AI systems that make accurate, trustworthy, and easy-to-understand science communication possible at scale. Brinleigh also contributes to Boston Children’s Hospital’s Digital Wellness Lab, where her work centers on translating research into practice, with a focus on AI in commercial products and early childhood development. A Harvard-trained innovator with experience at Google and YouTube, she works at the intersection of science, technology, and society to advance trust and wellbeing in the digital age.
Dr Mark Williamson is Director of Action for Happiness, a movement of people taking action to create a happier and kinder world, with an active community of over a million supporters. He is passionate about creating a more balanced and caring society that focuses more on helping people and communities thrive. Mark has a diverse range of experience across private and non-profit sectors, from start-ups through to large multi-national companies. He was previously Director at the Carbon Trust and Senior Manager with Accenture and has also worked for HP Labs and Orange. He holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland, and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Bristol. He is a Sainsbury Management Fellow, a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Directors.
Tara Davis is the Senior Director of Internal Communications and Staff Wellbeing at the American Psychological Association. She combines empathetic leadership with evidence-based strategies to enhance employee wellbeing and drive organizational success. With more than 15 years of experience leveraging psychological science, data, and employee feedback, she is recognized as a thought leader in workplace wellbeing, recognition, internal and executive communications, and employee engagement.
Davis develops communications, programs, and initiatives that energize employees, connect their work to organizational purpose, and foster a culture where people and performance thrive. Under her leadership, APA recently earned Top Workplaces recognition in both the Nonprofit and Remote Work categories—a testament to the impact of her work alongside a dedicated team. She advises executive leaders on building environments that promote satisfaction, commitment, and meaningful work.
Her expertise has been sought by organizations and audiences including National Public Radio, Amazon, Georgetown University, the American Society of Association Executives, the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, Ragan Communications, the Public Relations Society of America, Ireland’s Strategic Magazine, Furman University, Young Life, and DC Public Schools.
Sarah Cunningham is Managing Director of the World Wellbeing Movement (WWM), and host of the ‘Working on Wellbeing’ podcast series by the World Wellbeing Movement, where she engages in meaningful conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.
Housed within the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre, the World Wellbeing Movement’s aim is to improve the quality of life of people across the world by putting wellbeing at the heart of decision-making in both business and public policy.
Sarah’s own expertise, which bridges both the corporate and academic worlds, strongly aligns with the World Wellbeing Movement’s approach. She is a workplace wellbeing expert with >26 years leadership experience, gained in companies including Accenture, Google and Mastercard. Immediately prior to being appointed to her current position, Sarah was Vice-President and lead of Mastercard’s European Technology Hub in Dublin, where she was focused on creating a great place to work with employee wellbeing as the cornerstone. Sarah graduated first in her year from LSE’s EMSc in Psychological & Behavioural Science. She is also a graduate of the Smurfit Business School Senior Leadership programme in partnership with Darden University, and she has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business & Law from University College Dublin.