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Jessica Weiss
Happiness Expert
Jessica Weiss
Happiness Expert
Biography
Jessica Weiss is a dynamic Happiness Strategist and Well-being Innovation Expert who transforms organizations by proving that “Happiness, Works.” As a Workplace Wellness Architect, she helps companies cultivate thriving cultures that boost productivity, innovation, and bottom-line results. Jessica’s engaging presentations blend cutting-edge research with actionable strategies, leaving audiences inspired and equipped to strengthen their “Happiness Muscle.”
When organizations want to transform their teams through the power of happiness and create sustainable high performance, they call Jessica Weiss.
Jessica is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, happiness strategist, and workplace performance expert whose upcoming book with Wiley Publishing explores how happiness drives team success. Her research and practical frameworks have revolutionized how organizations think about the connection between happiness and high performance.
Jessica shares groundbreaking insights and actionable strategies to build happier, higher-performing teams at world-class organizations like American Express, Mayo Clinic, JPMorgan Chase, and Pfizer. Her work demonstrates that happiness isn't just a nice-to-have - it's the foundation for innovation, collaboration, and sustained excellence. She has delivered hundreds of keynotes, helping Fortune 500 companies discover how happiness is their competitive advantage.
Her work challenges the traditional notion that success leads to happiness, showing instead that happiness is the key driver of team performance. Through her research-backed, practical approach, she helps organizations build cultures where people perform better because they want to, not because they have to.
Jessica's work has transformed how leading organizations approach team performance, with her insights featured in major media outlets including [insert relevant media]. Her message is clear: in today's rapidly changing workplace, happiness isn't just about feeling good - it's about delivering extraordinary results.
Speaker Videos
TEDx Clip
High Performing Teams
Healthcare Burnout Symposium
Day Tight Compartments
Happiness: It's an Inside Job | Jessica Weiss | TEDxMcMasterU
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Speech Topics
The Heart of High Performing Teams
How happiness increases collaboration and communication on incredible teams
Teams today are feeling more disengaged, decentralized, and more lonely than they ever have before. Depression is up 20% in the last five years, stress is at an all time high, people are burned out and scrambling for time, and turnover continues to increase. While most people think that the solution is more PTO, longer breaks, and less to do, the truth is that we need to have a more connected, collaborative, and engaged team. And to do that, we must understand that happiness is the glue that holds everything together, and achieving and unlocking it is the key to a brighter future, and a stronger, more resilient, and engaged team that simply performs better because they want to, not because they feel like they have to.
The Happiness Equation
How happiness attracts and builds high-performing teams
With the world moving faster than it ever has before and the talent shortage being more severe than it has been in the past 50 years, organizations are struggling not just to attract top people but to keep the greatest people that they have. Leaders are grappling with recruiting, engaging and retaining employees – all while striving to foster a culture that is resilient, inclusive and vibrant. Why is it so difficult to keep our best people? Why is it so difficult to attract the best talent and more importantly what do we do? It turns out after studying hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals, workplace culture expert Jessica Weiss has discovered that the solution no one is seeing to the problem that everyone recognizes they have - is happiness. And to understand that happiness is the basis for collaboration, for trust, for effective leadership and the ability to navigate uncertainty and change.
The Burnout Antidote
Following years of increased unpredictability and rapid change, people from all walks of life are experiencing fatigue, overwhelm, and demotivation. Reports of burnout are sky high and only getting worse. We are looking for a more effective way than merely surviving - we want to thrive and to flourish without the relentless grind. Happiness, as unassuming as it may be, is the answer. The real problem with burnout is that we’ve been spending too much time trying to deal with it after it happens, much like we try to take off the 10 pounds after we’ve gained them. What if we could prevent burnout from happening in the first place.
Psychological Safety Mastered: Creating Trust-Driven Teams That Deliver Exceptional Results
Teams today are facing unprecedented pressure to perform, innovate, and adapt to rapid change. While many organizations focus on strategy and skill development, the highest-performing teams share a crucial foundation that's often overlooked: psychological safety and deep trust. Research shows that when team members feel safe to express their thoughts, take risks without fear, and be vulnerable with each other, performance metrics skyrocket across every measurable dimension.
In this dynamic, research-backed presentation, workplace performance expert Jessica Weiss reveals how organizations like Four Seasons, Ford, and Pixar have systematically built cultures of trust that directly translate to market-leading performance. Drawing on both groundbreaking case studies and practical experience, Jessica demonstrates that trust isn't just a cultural "nice-to-have" - it's the competitive advantage that separates high-performing teams from average ones.
Attendees will discover the Four Pillars of Psychological Safety framework that transforms team dynamics and performance outcomes. Jessica walks leaders through a proven system for identifying trust breakdowns early and provides concrete tools for rebuilding it before performance suffers. Through engaging storytelling and actionable frameworks, participants learn how to create environments where innovation flourishes, collaboration accelerates, and teams consistently outperform expectations.
This presentation equips leaders with immediately applicable strategies for nurturing the trust that enables breakthrough performance - whether teams are in-person, remote, or hybrid. Attendees will leave with a practical toolkit for turning trust from an abstract concept into a tangible performance driver that delivers measurable results.
ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:
- How to implement the "Glitch Report" system used by world-class organizations to transform mistakes into performance improvements
- The specific trust building blocks that create high-performing teams: capability and character
- Early warning systems to detect trust breakdowns before they impact team performance
- Leadership techniques for modeling vulnerability that create a performance multiplier effect throughout teams
- How to build the four pillars of psychological safety that are the #1 predictor of team excellence
- Practical methods to turn feedback from a performance roadblock into an acceleration tool
- Daily trust-building habits that compound over time to create measurable performance advantages
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