Established in 1987, Happy has helped thousands of organisations to create happy and productive workplaces.
Here are a few of our success stories...
Revantage is a London-based company that provides real estate services to the property portfolio of one of the world's largest investment firms, Blackstone. In 2021 they set up a Future Leaders programme to undertake Happy’s four-day Happy Workplace Leadership Programme.
“You have delivered everything we asked for and it’s made a real difference,” says James Post. “Our people feel more trusted, and as directors, we have been freed up to look at the bigger picture, giving us time to do planning and strategy.” James is Managing Director of Ashbury Labelling, who provide support and advice to ensure supermarket products are compliant with all relevant international labelling regulations.
Blue Cross is a charity that really understands the benefit of personal development. The Chief Executive, Sally de la Bedoyere, recognised that people need to grow and flourish, and that seeing mastery develop really gives people motivation. Happy delivered 23 individual one-off coaching sessions for the senior leadership team to aid their personal development. This was an exciting project and surprisingly the first of its kind that we have been asked to do.
“Since working with Happy we have seen a huge shift in the culture. I don’t know how you measure it, but people are more cordial, more collegial and talk to each other more, as people who have been through something together.” A government think tank came to Happy because they wanted to change the culture of their organisation.
TLC - Talk, Listen, Change is a relationships charity based in Manchester. They have been on Happy’s 4 day Happy Workplace Leadership Programme and one of their senior leaders has been on our Level 7 Senior Leadership programme. Michelle Hill, CEO, explains how they have made TLC a truly happy workplace, based on a coaching culture, Pre-Approval and relationships.
Clarion Events is an events company, organising both live and digital events across the world. They organised two Happy Workplace Leadership Programme cohorts for their leadership team, both based in the classroom at Happy. "Something I am seeing more and more is watching the managers implement what they have learnt and then talk about it. There is a real buzz and because it was shared learning they can all discuss issues and solve them as a group," says Alex Pratt, Managing Director at Clarion Events.
Devon Air Ambulance is a charity that provides emergency medical services throughout the county of Devon. The charity is run by 140 members of staff and over 730 volunteers. Happy facilitated the Happy Workplace Leadership Programme, with some bespoke elements, and additional Executive Coaching for five members of the senior leadership team. "The flexibility of the programme was great. Being able to tailor the plan to suit our situation was really helpful. Jo was fantastic as a facilitator and helped to shape the sessions so that we really did hone in on the objectives we had set out to achieve," says Martin Bell, People, Talent & Culture Director at Devon Air Ambulance.
The OU Students Association is effectively the student union for the Open University with 40 staff alongside student volunteers responding to the needs of the 170,000 students. "The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive for all the courses we’ve done at Happy," explains Nicola Powell, Training and Wellbeing Officer.
Happy has worked for over five years with Just IT to transform their workplace culture. Simon Perriton, Just IT's CEO, was originally inspired by the book Relax!: A Happy Business Story and the Happy Manifesto. Since then, Happy has delivered leadership training, 1-to-1 Executive Coaching and on-going support through our conferences and events.
Happy developed a six-month Clinical Leadership Development Programme for the Nottingham University Hospital (NUH), which included five days of classroom training, eLearning, an online community and online assessment.