Henry Stewart

Henry is founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happy Ltd, originally set up as Happy Computers in 1987. Inspired by Ricardo Semler’s book Maverick, he has built a company which has won multiple awards for some of the best customer service in the country and being one of the UK’s best places to work.

Henry was listed in the Guru Radar of the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. “He is one of the thinkers who we believe will shape the future of business,” explained list compiler Stuart Crainer.

His first book, Relax, was published in 2009. His second book, The Happy Manifesto, was published in 2013 and was short-listed for Business Book of the Year. His latest book, Creating Joy at Work: 501+ ideas for a happy workplace was released in 2025 and is filled with ways that people around the world have implemented workplaces based on empowerment and working to strengths.

How to Extract First Names from Full Names in Excel Spreadsheets

If you are creating a Mail Merge using an Excel spreadsheet, this trick may help you. Often when downloading your...

Henry Stewart

02 Feb 2020

Work and Happiness in South Korea

In September 2019, Henry was invited to speak at Conference Chang in Seoul, South Korea. The theme was 'Self, Work...

Henry Stewart

15 Oct 2019

8 Ways that Adviza Has Created a Happy Workplace

"We deal with people in very challenging circumstances and unhappy people aren't going to provide good support for them. If...

Henry Stewart

12 Sep 2019

16 Companies That Don’t Have Managers

"How many of you feel you need to be managed?" asked Alison Sturgess-Durden at the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference. Nobody...

Henry Stewart

27 Aug 2019

Henry Stewart Speaking at the 2019 Happiness and Humans Conference

Henry Stewart was invited to speak about the importance of happy and engaged workplaces at the Happiness and Humans Conference...

Henry Stewart

30 Jul 2019

49 Steps to a Happy Workplace

At the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, our seventh annual event in London, a range of fabulous speakers shared ideas on...

Henry Stewart

22 Jul 2019

A 4 Day Week? Let’s Start With a 4 Day August

Around the world some organisations have experimented with a four day week, with some evidence that it can be as...

Henry Stewart

16 Jul 2019

30 Steps to Joy at Work: Get More Done by Being Less Busy

Could we get more done if we were less hectic and overwhelmed? Bruce Daisley, former EMEA Vice President of Twitter,...

Henry Stewart

08 Jul 2019

How We Transformed Happy from a £180k Loss to a £165k Profit in One Year

18 months ago things were not looking good at Happy. In 2017, we made a loss of £180k. Rather than...

Henry Stewart

09 Jun 2019