(Member Event) Happiness is a Serious Business

Happiness can sound fluffy, and many business leaders think happy employees will slack off and not finish the work. But that isn’t what the evidence finds. Instead, happier employees are more motivated, creative and resilient. These are all incredibly important attributes in the fast-paced agency world.

Statistician Nic Marks will draw on his experience tracking team happiness across hundreds of organisations and share his insights into how to build happy, successful teams in your agency. Nic was once described as a “Statistician with a Soul” because of his unusual combination of ‘hard’ statistical and ‘soft’ people skills. He draws on scientific evidence to show that everyone benefits when businesses take happiness seriously.

Nic studied Mathematics and applied statistics at Cambridge and Lancaster Universities. He later trained as a psychotherapist and a group facilitator. In 2019 Nic founded Friday Pulse an innovative tech business based in London that tracks employee happiness and supports team leaders to build happy and successful teams. He previously worked in the public policy realm as an advisor to the UK Government Office for Science on the Wellbeing Foresight Programme. In 2010, Nic was invited to speak at the prestigious TED global conference, and his talk has now been watched over two and a half million times.

This is a members’ event. If you would be interested in joining, please email jacob@theagencycollective.co.uk