Jenn Lim: Happiness Speaker
Jenn Lim is a culture transformation leader and bestselling author who helps organizations unite purpose, people and profit through human-centered, happiness-driven organizational design.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- CEO and co-founder of Delivering Happiness with the late Tony Hsieh
- Bestselling author of Beyond Happiness
- Delivering Happiness book sold one million copies worldwide
- Member of the Global Happiness Council of Work and Wellbeing
- Formats: Keynote speaker, culture transformation strategist and bestselling author.
- Audiences: Organizations seeking stronger engagement, sustainable high performance, purpose-driven leadership and resilient, human-centered cultures.
- Outcomes:
- Learn how to align purpose, people and profit for sustained growth
- Gain a framework for adapting culture to modern workplace expectations
- Build a more human, resilient and meaningful employee experience
- Travels from: Oakland, CA
- **Fee range: $35,001 - $50,000
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Keynote Topics:
WHAT'S BEYOND HAPPINESS?
Why do we need it now more than ever.
Since the world hit reset in 2020, people have been asking:
What are the things most important to me?
Am I living an authentic life that’s true to myself and not what others expect of me?
How do I know if I’m spending the minutes of my day meaningfully?
Whether you lead a company, teams, or your own work/life, it’s time to get to the core of who you are, live the purposeful life you want, and ripple your impact to people in your business and beyond.
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORKPLACE
Where do we go from here for people, growth, adaptability, and impact?
We’re working and living in the new ab(norm).
The world has changed, and the “future of work” arrived sooner than anyone expected. With change happening all around us, it’s more important than ever to bring your team engaged, aligned, and (beyond) happy.
In this session, Jenn Lim will share the greenhouse elements every workplace needs to fully adapt and thrive first as individuals and then as a team.
Gain the framework necessary for your team to stay connected, communicate effectively, and feel purposeful in the work they do every day while enhancing the customer experience and employee engagement.
REAL TALK ON RECRUITING
REAL TALK ON RECRUITING + RETAINING TOP TALENT
what drives resignations, and what do employees want most?
Employees are self-selecting and “speaking with their feet” for more than just a paycheck. While the way we work keeps shifting between in-person, remote, and hybrid, employees are jumping ship for their own reasons.
As leaders, we need to understand the root causes and why it’s not just about more pay or a big benefit package anymore.
In this session, Jenn Lim will uncover what’s needed inside every culture to attract and retain top talent.
She’ll also share real-life case studies of organizations successfully building cultures that keep employees coming back, showing up fully, and performing their best.
BRING HUMANITY TO WORK
get real with ourselves and our teams for a more whole, authentic workplace.
When we show up authentically at work, we can bring our whole selves, which benefits everyone on the team. When leaders encourage others to bring their whole selves and unique perspectives to each situation, solutions are created, innovation happens, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging flow naturally.
Jenn Lim will inspire you and your team to show up authentically and embrace the highs and lows in work/life. Leaders who create a genuine, inclusive work environment know it’s not just the “right thing to do,” they know it’s also creating more profits and purpose in the world. When we get real with ourselves THAT’S when happiness and humanity come alive.
ME + WE + COMMUNITY
flowing beyond happiness to unleash human potential for purposeful impact.
At every defining moment in the consumer life cycle, there are opportunities to create a strong positive (or negative) brand experience, and those moments start with the employee. When we create a triple win—people are supported as individuals, teams/customers are supported, and businesses are more successful.
In this session, Jenn Lim shares how as leaders, we can adapt to change, be profitable and purposeful, support all people and our stakeholders (spoiler alert…it starts with your greenhouse first).
When we nurture our greenhouse, we can then nurture others and create a ripple effect that positively impacts our whole ecosystem of people.
Talent Short Bio
Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness and the CEO of Delivering Happiness (DH), the culture consultancy she co-founded with the late Tony Hsieh of Zappos to help companies build happier, more sustainable and more profitable workplaces. What began as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book Delivering Happiness—which sold more than one million copies worldwide—has evolved into a global movement and advisory firm that has guided hundreds of organizations in shaping cultures rooted in meaning, purpose and human wellbeing.
In Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact, Jenn distills decades of experience into a practical framework for modern leaders navigating rapid change, the Great Resignation and the rise of purpose-driven work. Her approach blends organizational strategy with human psychology, providing actionable ways to modernize structure, accelerate adaptability and amplify both impact and profit.
Jenn’s mission is clear and deeply resonant: to help people and organizations create environments where authenticity, wellbeing and humanity fuel performance. She teaches leaders at every level how to connect daily work to personal and collective purpose, build cultures that support whole-person growth and design workplaces where people feel valued, aligned and inspired.
Read Full Bio
Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness [DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business.
Delivering Happiness started as a book (New York Times and WSJ Bestseller, which sold one million copies worldwide) and evolved into a business consultancy and global movement that has impacted and inspired hundreds of companies and organizations worldwide.
In her Jenn Lim bestselling book, Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact, Jenn draws on her decades of experience in culture and strategy to translate it into a practical “how-to” framework so workplaces can adapt quicker, couple purpose and profits, and modernize org design to the Great Resignation and Great Awakening.
Jenn Lim guides all of us no matter our title or role, how to live more meaningful lives through the work we do every day.
Jenn’s mission is both simple and profound: to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organization, and share how we can make a greater impact by being true to our authentic selves.
In 2017, Jenn Lim was selected to be on the Global Happiness Council of Work and Wellbeing and in 2020, Delivering Happiness [DH] was placed on the Inc. 5000 list, becoming one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.
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