by Matt Phelan
Research, data, evidence and the stories of people focused on employee engagement, workplace happiness and driving performance at work. Connect with Matt via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewphelan/ You can download The Happiness Index's Global Workplace Happiness Report here https://thehappinessindex.com/the-global-workplace-happiness-report/
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June 25, 2026
<p>Matt Phelan catches up backstage at Google HQ in London with <strong>Andrea D Carter</strong>, a renowned neuroscience researcher and a core contributor to the Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026. </p><p>In this high-impact five-minute conversation, you will discover:</p><ul><li><p>🧠 <strong>The personal spark.</strong> How navigating the real-life pain of raising neurodivergent teenagers drove Andrea to decode the neuroscience of workplace inclusion. </p></li><li><p>🚗 <strong>The brake and gas analogy.</strong> Why operating in a culture of "fitting in" forces employees into self-protection mode. It is the cognitive equivalent of driving with your foot on the brake and the gas simultaneously. </p></li><li><p>🔋 <strong>The metabolic resource.</strong> The science showing that when true belonging is present, the brain expends less energy. This allows your people to achieve peak performance with significantly less effort. </p></li><li><p>⚖️ <strong>The 50-50 rule.</strong> Moving past one-sided accountability. True social cohesion means the manager and the employee share equal responsibility to see, understand, and validate each other. </p></li></ul><p>Andrea argues that belonging is a fundamental human need—just like food and water. When organisations fail to build a culture of genuine belonging, they are actively draining the cognitive and physical energy required for performance. </p><p>Are you ready to take your foot off the brake?</p><p><strong>🚀 The Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026: </strong><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026</strong></a></p>
June 18, 2026
<p>Matt Phelan welcomes back a good friend and headline sponsor of the Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026, Viktoria Otero del Val from Pluxee. In this lightning-fast snippet, Matt fires over one vital question: <strong>What is the most important data point for modern leadership?</strong></p><p>In under five minutes, discover:</p><ul><li><p>🗺️ <strong>The multidimensional reality.</strong> Why looking at a person as the sum of all their coexisting realities—work, family, and community—completely changes the management dialogue.</p></li><li><p>⚽ <strong>The volunteer surprise.</strong> The striking metric showing that 66% of UK workers are actively engaged in voluntary work or sports coaching outside of their day jobs.</p></li><li><p>👥 <strong>The 1-to-1 connection.</strong> The single piece of advice for the 250 CEOs in the room on how to take employee engagement from a theory to a daily habit.</p></li></ul><p>Viktoria argues that managers must stop treating team members as one-dimensional resources. Success requires understanding the whole individual and meeting them exactly where they are on their personal journey.</p><p><br></p><p>Are you ready to see your people in full colour?</p><p><strong>🚀 The Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026: </strong><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026</strong></a><strong></strong></p>
June 11, 2026
<p>This week, we’re changing things up. Our host Matt Phelan is back in the chair, and he’s turning the microphone on <strong>Stefan Tornquist</strong>. After spending months hosting our Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026 series, Stefan is stepping onto the other side of the desk as a guest. </p><p>Stefan is the lead author of the report and the managing director of Executive Summary Research. He’s spent over 30 years leading complex research projects and translating vast datasets into actionable business strategies. </p><p>In this lightning-fast five-minute conversation, Matt asks Stefan to take off his researcher hat and share what surprised him most about the final data. </p><p>We explore:</p><ul><li><p>📊 <strong>The titanic operation.</strong> The massive logistics behind crunching 82,000 responses, 1.9 million data points, and 90,000 qualitative open-text answers. </p></li><li><p>⚖️ <strong>The gender divide.</strong> The striking, everywhere-we-looked finding that women scored lower than men in 28 out of 29 categories across all age groups and seniorities. </p></li><li><p>💼 <strong>The workplace paradox.</strong> Why companies mistakenly treat employment as a transaction, while your people inherently experience it as a relationship. </p></li><li><p>🔮 <strong>The 2027 roadmap.</strong> A look ahead at the future of the project, focusing on wider geographic spreads and deeper qualitative context. </p></li></ul><p>Stefan argues that the highest-order elements of work always come down to connection. If you want to build a resilient business, you must stop looking at your headcount as an expense line and start building a real relationship infrastructure. </p><p><br></p><p>Are you ready to see the real story behind the numbers?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>🚀 The Global Workplace Happiness Report 2026: </strong><a href="https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>https://tinyurl.com/GWHR2026</strong></a><strong></strong></p>
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Research, data, evidence and the stories of people focused on employee engagement, workplace happiness and driving performance at work.
Connect with Matt via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewphelan/
You can download The Happiness Index's Global Workplace Happiness Report here
https://thehappinessindex.com/the-global-workplace-happiness-report/
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