13 Self-Awareness, Happiness and Leadership with Matthew Phelan
01/29/23 • 28 min
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Matt Phelan is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The Happiness Index He's focused on sharing the vision of Freedom To Be Human with a global audience.
Matt is happiest when spending time with loved ones, particularly anything that is outdoors in nature.
What does Matt say about himself on Seedrs?
I started my first business, a marketing agency, in 2008 right before the last big financial crisis. Although I can’t recommend starting a business when the world is in melt-down, we certainly had to learn a lot of lessons very quickly at the time!
My first business was actually integral to building The Happiness Index. Not only did the idea come from one of our customers (who is now our Chief Marketing Officer), but our CTO at the time built V1 of our product. It was initially an in-house solution we used! Quickly our customers started asking to use it too, and now we provide a platform that’s used by thousands of people across over 100 countries.
What is The Happiness Index (from Seedrs)?
In a nutshell, we provide a SaaS platform that helps HR and People professionals measure their team’s happiness and engagement. Traditionally, emotions are left out of the workplace, but neuroscience shows us that we need to unite both the head and the heart. By understanding how employees are thinking and feeling, businesses will thrive.
Matt is the author of Freedom To Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness.
Matt also did a TED talk in 2022. Here's a link to Matt's TEDx Brighton talk
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Matt Phelan is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The Happiness Index He's focused on sharing the vision of Freedom To Be Human with a global audience.
Matt is happiest when spending time with loved ones, particularly anything that is outdoors in nature.
What does Matt say about himself on Seedrs?
I started my first business, a marketing agency, in 2008 right before the last big financial crisis. Although I can’t recommend starting a business when the world is in melt-down, we certainly had to learn a lot of lessons very quickly at the time!
My first business was actually integral to building The Happiness Index. Not only did the idea come from one of our customers (who is now our Chief Marketing Officer), but our CTO at the time built V1 of our product. It was initially an in-house solution we used! Quickly our customers started asking to use it too, and now we provide a platform that’s used by thousands of people across over 100 countries.
What is The Happiness Index (from Seedrs)?
In a nutshell, we provide a SaaS platform that helps HR and People professionals measure their team’s happiness and engagement. Traditionally, emotions are left out of the workplace, but neuroscience shows us that we need to unite both the head and the heart. By understanding how employees are thinking and feeling, businesses will thrive.
Matt is the author of Freedom To Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness.
Matt also did a TED talk in 2022. Here's a link to Matt's TEDx Brighton talk
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1 RecommendationsNeil Jurd is a specialist leadership coach and course director, who has held many senior appointments in the Regular Army and in Industry. More recently Neil has produced a series of leadership videos which are now widely in use across sectors, and his book ‘The Leadership Book’ receives excellent reviews.
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Based in Dublin and working throughout Ireland, internationally and online.
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The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast - 13 Self-Awareness, Happiness and Leadership with Matthew Phelan
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Hello and welcome to the knowing self knowing others podcast, the fortnightly podcast that explores self awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels. Join me your host Nia Thomas as we talk to today's knowing self knowing others guest
I'm joined today by Matthew Phelan and I'm so looking forward to this conversation. I've been following Matthew on LinkedIn for quite some time. And I definitely feel like I'm in the presence of a celeb. Because Matthew has
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