For leaders in their respective domains,
aiming to improve the outcomes and impacts of their organisations
by developing happiness-focused initiatives

Happier World Forum

Leaders sharing best practices
to make their world happier

Your journey as a catalyst for a happier world starts here.
Book an interview with Emmanuel Mongon, Founder & CEO,
and learn about what the Happier World Forum can do for you :

Welcome to the Happier World Forum :
an exclusive community of leaders,
sharing a common aim to make the world
around them a happier place.

Our Mission

We assist leaders to develop happiness-focused programs that enhance the outcomes and impacts of their organizations. We do this by inspiring them with real-world success stories and offering them the benefits of the experiences, insights, strategies, and practices of a global, cross-sector network.

Get inspired by real-world success stories

Be motivated by the transformative power of happiness-guided initiatives across diverse sectors. Explore showcased organisations that have demonstrated enhanced stakeholder happiness, improved outcomes, and sustainable positive impacts. Together with Forum members' organisations, they create a direct ripple effect on the quality of lives of millions of people worldwide, making the world already a happier place.

Connect and interact with other leaders globally

Join a trusted network of leaders in their respective domains. Accreditation membership enables open sharing, deeper interactions, and direct connections with like-minded peers, fostering mutual support to excel as a happiness catalyst in your professional sphere. Gain diverse perspectives, expand knowledge, build bridges and explore potential partnerships in an enjoyable atmosphere.

Empower your leadership with in-depth insights

Enter the backstage and gain profound insights and actionable knowledge into happiness and how to grow it. Explore replicable strategies and best practices exclusively shared by experienced leaders. Learn from curated case studies, reports, research and engaging discussions with members and guest experts. Exchange innovative approaches, creative ideas, and trend signals, while receiving valuable feedback. Shape your own happiness-prioritized project, aligning it with your organisation's economic, social, environmental, and resilience goals to achieve multiple targets simultaneously.

Efficiently navigate your happiness-driven journey

Streamline the implementation of your happiness-oriented initiative with a nurturing and supportive environment. Access significant time-saving and cost-effective practices and resources recommended by performing leaders. Equip yourself with effective skills and tools. Learn through practice, progress with confidence, benefit from peer feedback and celebrate milestones along the way.

Inspirations, connections, insights and support to make your happiness-focused journey a success.

Accredited Members Community

Enter an accredited network of leaders, where trust fosters genuine connections and open sharing in an enjoyable atmosphere.

Global & Cross-Sector Network

Venture beyond familiar boundaries in a global network spanning across sectors, disciplines, and organizations, cultivating broadened understanding and potential collaborations.

Private Online Platform

Engage in a secure, user-friendly online platform, allowing seamless communication, knowledge sharing, event scheduling, accessible anytime, anywhere.

Direct Member Connections

Appreciate the freedom to initiate unrestricted, direct 1:1 communication with members, schedule live video calls, host your own event, or take part in informal exchanges.

Outcomes Showcase

Discover real-world success stories and evidence-based outcomes that demonstrate the transformative power of happiness-focused initiatives, inspiring your organisation to implement similar approaches for positive impact.

Progress and Milestones Celebrations

Happiness is not a distant goal. Observe quick initial results, track ongoing progress, and celebrate with us meaningful milestones on your own happiness journey .

Beacon Organizations Directory

Explore the Forum's reference directory, recognizing organizations prioritizing stakeholder happiness and demonstrating a track record of sustainable impact and economic viability.

VIP In-Field Visits Worldwide

Enjoy the privilege of being personally welcomed into selected organizations and gaining exclusive backstage access to learn about their practical approaches.

Live Guest Speaker Lounge

Experience a refreshing format that dedicates the majority of the session to interactive Q&A, allowing for in-depth clarifications and meaningful dialogues with the invited guest.

Essential Insights Garden

Retreat to a serene knowledge garden, cultivating essential insights and gaining fresh perspectives on the correlation between the growth of happiness and the growth of your organisation's outcomes and impact.

Signals & Trends Spotlight

Get on your radar innovative approaches, hidden gems, cutting-edge practices, thought-provoking ideas, and emerging trends, uncovered by the discerning eyes of your fellow members in a vast ocean of information.

Strategies Junction

Converge at the intersection of happiness-focused strategies, merge best practices, align goals and priorities, and leverage collective wisdom to shape your own successful project.

Empowerment Tools Workshop

For your implementation journey, locate in this practical space the tools to equip yourself and your project team. Access also curated training programs to refine your skills for driving happiness-oriented initiatives.

Ask for Feedback

Gain valuable feedback, support, and motivation from like-minded leaders to make informed decisions, navigate challenges and achieve success in your happiness-driven initiatives. 

Partners Gallery

Uncover a treasure trove across four zones: member organization showcases, forum sponsor introductions, external professional partners' services exhibits, and curated well-being activities, all enriched with exclusive member benefits.

Thematic Circles

Participate in or establish thematic circles, engaging in targeted discussions, sharing insights, or exploring collaborative opportunities within specific sectors or fields.

Time commitment & flexible participation

Engage at your own pace with our flexible participation approach. Your membership grants access to the activities and spaces presented above, available for you to select based on your interests and availability. While there is no mandatory time commitment, your fellow Forum members will appreciate your involvement in the exchanges, your suggestions, your comments, the sharing of your experience, or your insights on specific subjects.

Members

New members are expected to be experienced leaders in their own domains, but they can be at any stage of their professional and personal happiness journey: explorers, novices, practitioners, performers, or champions.

Members of the Happier World Forum stem from all kinds of organisations (businesses, public entities, academic institutions, civil society, communities), sectors, disciplines, positions, backgrounds, capabilities and regions of the world.

The Happier World Forum does not represent or advocate any specific sector or method. It's a space for members to share diverse experiences, while respecting different perspectives, even on happiness, thereby fostering mutual understanding and open dialogue.

Accreditation Process

The accreditation process comprises the following sequential steps:
1. You participate in an initial personal interview to share your experience and current leadership situation, and to receive more details about the Forum and membership conditions.
2. You submit your biography, professional achievements, references, and recommendations.
3. The membership committee reviews your submitted application.
4. If successful, you receive a personalized invitation for a one-year membership, which can potentially be renewed.
5. You are introduced to the community and presented to the other members through an easy onboarding process.

Membership

Minimum time commitment & flexible participation

Engage at your own pace with our flexible participation approach. Your minimum monthly commitment involves attending one 1-hour live session of your choice and contributing two brief 5-minute comments on messages from other members or sharing interesting findings. Beyond this, your membership fee grants access to a broad array of additional activities and spaces, available for you to select based on your interests and availability.

Members

New members are expected to be experienced leaders in their own domains, but they can be at any stage of their professional and personal happiness journey: explorers, novices, practitioners, performers, or champions.

Members of the Happier World Forum stem from all kinds of organisations (businesses, public entities, academic institutions, civil society, communities), sectors, disciplines, positions, backgrounds, capabilities and regions of the world.

The Happier World Forum does not represent or advocate any specific sector or method. It's a space for members to share diverse experiences, while respecting different perspectives, even on happiness, thereby fostering mutual understanding and open dialogue.

Accreditation Process

The accreditation process comprises the following sequential steps:
1. You participate in an initial personal interview to share your experience and current leadership situation, and to receive more details about the Forum and membership conditions.
2. You submit your biography, professional achievements, references, and recommendations.
3. The membership committee reviews your submitted application.
4. If successful, you receive a personalized invitation for a one-year membership, which can potentially be renewed.
5. You are introduced to the community and presented to the other members through an easy onboarding process.

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Why prioritize Happiness ?

Happiness as an overarching goal

The Happier World Forum was founded on a simple statement : that every human being strives to be happier.

This idea of happiness does not come from wishful thinking or idealism. Instead, it is so deeply rooted in our human nature that many leaders in our history saw it as the cornerstone of their mission. Some even made it the very foundation of our societies, governments and businesses.

"... so that the demands of citizens, founded henceforth on simple and incontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of the Constitution and happiness for all."
(Preambel of the French Declaration of the Human Rights, 1789)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
(Second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, 1776)

"The pursuit of Happiness is a fundamental human goal. The General Assembly invites Member States to pursue the elaboration of additional measures that better capture the importance of the pursuit of happiness and well-being in development with a view to guiding their public policies"
(United Nations Resolution, 2011)

"Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product"
(Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, 1972)

"We need to understand what constitutes real wealth and prosperity and what it is that truly promotes human well being"
(Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister, Bhutan, 2011)

Being happier is an overarching goal for us, encompassing all  the objectives we set ourselves.

But if happiness represents such a crucial foundation for our organizations and businesses, why isn't it placed higher on the list of priorities which enter our decision processes ?

Happiness is often considered too abstract or idealistic

Even though it appears in some of our societies' most foundational documents, happiness is often seen as an abstract and distant destination to be reached once all other objectives are attained.

As a result, the compass setting the direction for our decisions in business or public policy has historically been geared towards other metrics for success, such as buying power or economic growth.

However, happiness is not an abstract endeavor. Happier World Forum places a focus on growing happiness (not just simply happiness) in order to foster an action-oriented approach, based on tangible "before/after" results from real organizations.

What if growing happiness was actually a top priority ?

Once we show that growing happiness is concretely attainable, where should we place it in our priorities ?

It has been proven that beyond a certain level of comfort, a higher average income does not necessarily improve well-being. Therefore, why not focus on happiness growth to complement economic growth as a driver for the development of individuals and societies ?

Similarly, if we manage to get the current environmental and sanitary crisis as well as wars under control, will it be sufficient to ensure happiness in our societies on the long term when other factors seem to have increasingly adverse effects on our happiness ?

In the current context, we can recall the text of Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who wrote in 1954, at the height of the Cold War: "We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more."

Considering the crucial importance of happiness and wellbeing in our development as humans, what if we placed growing happiness at the heart of our priorities and decisions, not only as individuals but at the level of businesses, society and governance ?

What if we made growing happiness a top priority for our organizations ?

The Happier World Forum is focused on answering the question above, showing through case studies and experience sharing that this vision is not only feasible, but that it aligns well with the other economical, social, environmental and resilience goals, bringing positive and tangible results.

Our objective is to spotlight and grow the number of organizations which prioritize happiness growth and demonstrate improved outcomes and positive impacts.




"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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