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Work shouldn’t drain your leaders. It should recharge them. Our workshops, bootcamps, offsites and retreats give executives and mid-level managers the space to step away from daily demands and return with fresh skills, new perspectives, and the energy to lead at their best.

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TAILORED SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

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Team Effectiveness Acceleration
1–2 days of facilitated sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to deepen trust, build alignment, accelerate execution and create space for renewal
1–2 days of facilitated sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to deepen trust, build alignment, accelerate execution and create space for renewal
  • Develop a shared vision, strategy, and sense of purpose
  • Guided by team effectiveness diagnostic to uncover what matters most, what's holding you back, and how to move forward together
  • Incorporates our proprietary PEARL MODELTM to embed habits of flourishing
  • Ideal for executive and mid-level leadership
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Customized Retreat Experiences
2–5 day retreats tailored to your organization’s needs (on-site or destination-based)
2–5 day retreats tailored to your organization’s needs (on-site or destination-based)
  • A fully managed experience where we handle every detail: travel, transportation, meals, venue, trainings, and curated activities
  • Optional enhancements like connection hikes and wilderness adventures for deeper impact
  • Designed to foster alignment, strengthen connection, and build resilient, happier habits
  • Perfect for teams seeking transformation, renewal, and meaningful connection in one unforgettable experience
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Leadership Bootcamps
Half day to 2 day sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to enhance and scale your leadership effectiveness
Half day to 2 day sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to enhance and scale your leadership effectiveness
  • Targeted modules on leading self, leading others, and leading organizations
  • Blend of practical skills, radical self-inquiry, and shared experiences to enhance leadership and resiliency
  • Experiential learning with integrated fieldwork, coaching, and feedback
  • Ideal for executive and mid-level leadership
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Skill-Building Workshops
90-minute to 1-day sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to enhance leadership skills and drive performance
90-minute to 1-day sessions (virtual or in-person) designed to enhance leadership skills and drive performance
  • Targeted modules on personal, team, and organizational flourishing, including but not limited to: making stress an ally, decision-making, psychological safety, courageous conversations, mastering complexity, and infusing meaning at work
  • Experiential learning with fieldwork integration
  • Accelerates individual growth while fostering cultural alignment
  • Perfect for offsites, all-hands, or quarterly team meetings
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What differentiates our Flourishing based Employee engagement interventions

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WHAT SETS US APART
Proven Science
Customized interventions
Data driven
Real Impact
Lasting Change
Our holistic interventions are grounded in the science of high performing teams and powered by our proprietary flourishing models
We create targeted solutions that improve team effectiveness and leadership through a data-driven diagnostic approach
We use proven industry leading assessment tools like Leadership circle profile, DISC, Gallup Strengths finder, and Valence team effectiveness to surface opportunities
Equips leaders with practical tools and new habits to drive change at the individual, job, team, and organizational levels
Builds sustainable tools, habits and skills that stick long after the program ends
WHAT SETS US APART
Proven Science:
Our holistic interventions are grounded in the science of high performing teams and powered by our proprietary flourishing models
Customized interventions:
We create targeted solutions that improve team effectiveness and leadership through a data-driven diagnostic approach
Data driven:
We use proven industry leading assessment tools like Leadership circle profile, DISC, Gallup Strengths finder, and Valence team effectiveness to surface opportunities
Real Impact:
Equips leaders with practical tools and new habits to drive change at the individual, job, team, and organizational levels
Lasting Change:
Builds sustainable tools, habits and skills that stick long after the program ends
Testimonials

The revolution’s already started

Our leadership offsite with Ashish was truly transformational. He created a safe, engaging space where we could have honest conversations, surface difficult issues, and align on a shared vision. The mix of structured frameworks and open dialogue helped us leave not only with clarity on our priorities but also with renewed energy as a team. It was one of the most impactful offsites I’ve ever experienced.
Chris Petersen
Chris PetersenCEO Radicl
I am profoundly grateful to Ashish Kothari and the Happiness Squad for their generous guidance and unwavering support in shaping the mission, vision, and values for our work in Leeds School of Business. Their thoughtful approach and expertise helped us clarify not only what we stand for, but also how we want to show up for our community. This process has given us a strong foundation, rooted in purpose and shared values, that will guide our decisions and inspire our journey ahead.
Vijay Khatri
Vijay KhatriRustandy Endowed Dean at Leeds School of Business
Ashish facilitated an excellent offsite for my leadership team. The preparation prior was very helpful, to ensure the time together was well spent and efficient. He brought really relevant insight and experience to help us effectively assess where we needed to focus and improve, plus how to go about that. Ashish created an environment for the team to be open and develop the next level of trust and respect too. Overall super worthwhile and I’ll definitely use Ashish again!
Sophie Goldschmidt
Sophie GoldschmidtPresident and CEO, U.S. Ski & Snowboard
Ashish didn’t just facilitate our leadership offsite—he helped us unlock the clarity and courage we needed at a critical moment. In two days, we tackled hard truths, redefined our roles, and left with a concrete playbook to accelerate growth. It was the rare kind of session that shifts both mindset and execution in lasting ways.
Dave Graff
Dave GraffCOO & Co-Founder, RADICL

Meet the revolutionaries

Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari
Founder & CEO
Ashish Kothari
Founder & CEO
Ashish Kothari is an executive coach, author and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness and flourishing to achieve their full potential.  Through his 17 year stint at McKinsey & Company, Ashish has helped organizations develop capabilities critical to strategy success. Ashish lives in Boulder and has a Masters in Business administration (MBA) with a specialization in Organizational behavior from Chicago Booth and a Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
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Renelle Darr
Renelle Darr
Strategic Advisor
Renelle Darr
Strategic Advisor
Renelle Everett Darr is a strategic advisor working at the intersection of strategy, culture, and leadership. She partners with executives, founders, and organizations to navigate complexity, evolve systems, and lead meaningful transformation from the inside out. She is known for her ability to bridge deep leadership development with impactful systemic change. She has had the opportunity to serve hundreds of organizations and partner with thousands of leaders. Her work spans Fortune 500 companies, high-growth ventures, and purpose-driven organizations. She brings a foundation in large-scale consulting and organizational change from previous roles at EY, Deloitte, United Way, and The North Highland Company. She holds an MBA from the University of Colorado, is a PCC-certified Executive Coach, and is certified in several assessment instruments, with her go-to being The Leadership Circle Profile. Her outdoor leadership training contributes to her ability to combine compassion and strength in challenging situations. She hosts Conscious InSights, a podcast and video series exploring innovative leadership practices and emerging paths forward. Renelle has mentored founders through Techstars and Bridge Entrepreneur Network, served on numerous nonprofit boards, been published with Forbes, and spoken at events on transforming leadership and systems. She lives in Golden, Colorado with her family and is most alive at the edge—where complexity meets clarity, and systems begin to shift.
Barbs Edwards
Barbs Edwards
Executive Coach & Leadership Facilitator
Barbs Edwards
Executive Coach & Leadership Facilitator
Barbara Edwards is a psychologically influenced executive coach and leadership facilitator with more than 30 years of experience helping leaders and teams navigate complexity and transformation. She holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology, is certified in the Leadership Circle Profile, and has deep training in mediation—giving her a rare blend of psychological insight and organizational expertise. Barbara honed her craft as a senior consultant, teaching The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People around the world and developing transformational facilitators. Her work spans government, corporate, education, faith-based, and social-profit sectors, where she partners with executives, boards, and teams to resolve conflict, strengthen trust, and lead meaningful change. Her approach challenges leaders to see clearly, act decisively, and create the conditions where both people and organizations can thrive. Known for her grounded presence and ability to hold complexity, Barbara enables growth, alignment, and sustainable impact.
Elizabeth Durney
Elizabeth Durney
Leadership Coach
Elizabeth Durney
Leadership Coach
Elizabeth is a leadership coach who helps leaders access their own power, conviction and authenticity to build organizations of the future, where human thriving and value creation for all stakeholders go hand-in-hand. By helping individuals and teams move through limiting patterns and beliefs and build new ways of working and relating, Elizabeth taps into human potential at scale. For private, public and non-profit organizations across industries, Elizabeth works with groups and individuals as a coach, facilitator and speaker leading organizational transformations, operating model upgrades, team alignments and individual coaching journeys. Elizabeth holds a Master of Organizational Development from Sonoma State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Macalester College. She is certified and trained in Leadership Circle Profile 360, enterprise agility, values-based and transformational facilitation. Elizabeth lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons and enjoys nature, baking and playing Chutes and Ladders.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are employee engagement programs?

Employee engagement programs are structured initiatives designed to strengthen the connection between employees and their work, teams, and Organization. Happiness Squad’s Catalyst Offerings deliver engagement through workshops, bootcamps, offsites, and retreats that build flourishing habits and create lasting behavioural change.

Catalyst Offerings include half-day intensives, multi-week programmes, executive retreats, and team offsites. Topics range from burnout prevention and stress management to positive leadership, team resilience, and purpose activation. Each format is customised to your Organization’s specific needs and goals.

Our workshops address the root causes of burnout — chronic stress, lack of autonomy, poor boundaries, and disconnection from purpose. Rather than teaching coping mechanisms, we build proactive flourishing habits that prevent burnout before it starts. Participants learn emotional regulation, energy management, and deliberate calm techniques.

Absolutely. Every Catalyst programme begins with a diagnostic conversation to understand your Organization’s specific challenges, culture, and goals. We then design a tailored experience — selecting the right format, topics, and depth — to maximise impact and relevance for your teams.

A workshop is a focused, shorter intervention (half-day to two days) designed for immediate skill-building and insight. A full engagement programme extends over weeks or months, combining workshops with ongoing coaching, habit tracking, and measurement to drive sustainable change. We recommend starting with a Catalyst workshop and scaling based on results.

Frequently Asked Questions​​

Employee engagement programs are structured initiatives designed to strengthen the connection between employees and their work, teams, and Organization. Happiness Squad’s Catalyst Offerings deliver engagement through workshops, bootcamps, offsites, and retreats that build flourishing habits and create lasting behavioural change.

Catalyst Offerings include half-day intensives, multi-week programmes, executive retreats, and team offsites. Topics range from burnout prevention and stress management to positive leadership, team resilience, and purpose activation. Each format is customised to your Organization’s specific needs and goals.

Our workshops address the root causes of burnout — chronic stress, lack of autonomy, poor boundaries, and disconnection from purpose. Rather than teaching coping mechanisms, we build proactive flourishing habits that prevent burnout before it starts. Participants learn emotional regulation, energy management, and deliberate calm techniques.

Absolutely. Every Catalyst programme begins with a diagnostic conversation to understand your Organization’s specific challenges, culture, and goals. We then design a tailored experience — selecting the right format, topics, and depth — to maximise impact and relevance for your teams.

A workshop is a focused, shorter intervention (half-day to two days) designed for immediate skill-building and insight. A full engagement programme extends over weeks or months, combining workshops with ongoing coaching, habit tracking, and measurement to drive sustainable change. We recommend starting with a Catalyst workshop and scaling based on results.

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