Freedom To Be Happy: The Business Case For Happiness

Freedom To Be Happy explores the association between individual happiness and group performance at work.

Employee Engagement needs an upgrade and this book helps move our understanding forward using data, neuroscience and the latest workplace evidence. The book introduces happiness philosophers, reviews the evidence and interviews practitioners on the front line that are building thriving work cultures. The book uses data, neuroscience, quantum physics, academic research in a really accessible, unique, fun, and human way. Subjects include, employee engagement money & happiness, motivation, happiness, HR, marketing, employee happiness, happiness philosophy, the Stoics, the history of happiness, employee engagement, diversity & inclusion, equality and the future of work.

Research interviews for this book are live on The Happiness and Humans podcast. The objective of this book is to empower the reader to make a very strong case that the happiness of human beings is a very serious business metric

.1. Why happiness?
2. What is happiness?
3. Can money make you happy?
4. Is happiness nature or nurture?
5. Is happiness a fluffy metric?
6. Discovering happiness
7. Scaling happiness
8. Happiness biology and chemistry
9. Happiness practical tips
10. Happiness at work: contemporary philosophy and evidence
11. Employee happiness: research and evidence
12. Happiness: practitioners and evidence
13. The Happiness Index data
14. Happiness across the globe
15. The neuroscience of happiness
16. Introducing the quantum way
17. Freedom to be happy: the business case for happiness
18. The Happiness and Humans Community Charter

Matt Phelan is a serial entrepreneur and is the Co-Fonder and Co-CEO of The Happiness Index

"Matt is a rare talent. Truly putting happiness at the forefront of everything he does, be it work and play, demonstrates why he is such an outlier. His focus on the importance of human happiness backed up by neuroscience helps people untap the very best in themselves and their companies. I love partnering with Matt for that very reason - a true beacon of light for all aspiring and established CEOs, team leaders and employees alike."

- Nicola Pearcey, President of UK and Europe Lionsgate

"Matt is an authentic human who calls it as it is and is super curious. He endeavours to make big ripples of change and challenge the established ways of thinking and social norms. He helps to ensure everyone is informed, updated and thinking two steps ahead. I know this book will help us all to challenge our thinking around workplace engagement. Well done Matt "

- Margot Slattery, Sodexo Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer