Elevating wellbeing awareness by providing individuals, organizations and communities with evidence-based frameworks for positive behavioral change.
Connecting leading experts with a global audience to learn practical tools for a happier life.
Enabling connections through a community hub and providing learning tools and methods for a deeper understanding of wellbeing.
Enhancing personal and professional growth through self-awareness and skills training and practices.
Distributing exclusive and innovative content customized to enhance overall wellbeing.
Our ACE Wellbeing Model, a synthesis of research*, is divided into three interrelated elements that incorporate essential wellbeing principles and practices on the individual and organizational levels.
Global stress and loneliness are at an all-time high. We can no longer accept the health, social and business costs stemming from ignoring wellbeing.
An abundance of research has found that happiness and wellbeing are key drivers of health and success. Rooted in science, WOHASU® provides you and your organization with solutions to thrive. We deliver on our mission through evidence-based programs and by building communities that support sustainable change through awareness, connection, and experience.
Our method incorporates the Elements of Wellbeing to create programs and resources that produce tangible, positive results for individuals, organizations and communities.
Establishing awareness in the moment and living consciously by developing self-awareness, attending to the present and living with a non-judgmental attitude.
Discovering meaning in both your personal and professional life, while also establishing a connection with your spirituality.
Creating loving and supportive relationships while maintaining strong social bonds.
Connecting and contributing to healthy ecosystems, including the environment. Community refers to a group of individuals sharing common interests, values, and goals, often bound by social ties and mutual support networks.
Fostering healthy living practices focused on nutrition, exercise and rest.
Enjoying what you do and developing financial awareness.
Alberto is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of VTG GmbH. In his current role, he oversees the management and business development of more than 50 locations in 20 European countries, providing services that span the entire rail-based logistics chain.
Jen Fisher is a leading voice on the intersection of work, well-being, and purpose. Her mission is to help leaders move from the legacy mindset that well-being is solely the responsibility of the individual to the forward-thinking idea of human sustainability, which focuses on how organizations create value for people as human beings, leaving them with greater health and well-being, stronger skills and employability, good jobs, opportunities for advancement, more equity, and heightened feelings of belonging and purpose.
Robert Biswas-Diener is widely known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology” because his research on happiness, empathy and other topics has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel. Robert’s interest in happiness focuses on culture, material simplicity, and public policy. He has written more than 50 scholarly articles on these topics and is author of eight books including Happiness (2008), The Courage Quotient (2012), and The Upside of Your Dark Side (2015).
Mei Xu is an Asian American entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience in the consumer product and wellness industries. Passionate about innovation and infusing a founder’s spirit into conglomerates, universities, and hospitals, Xu is a sought-after speaker, corporate board member, and award-winning author.
Former Costa Rican diplomat and now Chair of Aurissey, a diplomacy consultancy firm. During her diplomatic career she was Ambassador of Costa Rica to the International Organisations in Vienna, and Governor for Costa Rica to the 2016-2018 IAEA’s Board of Governors (BoG).
Alla Klymenko is known in Eastern Europe and abroad as a psychologist and happiness educator who has been studying well-being, goal setting, and mindfulness for over ten years. Her lectures, workshops, and seminars help thousands of people become more successful, happier and radically change their outlook on life. Her goal is to make a billion people around the world happier.
Psychologist Dr. Laurie Santos is an expert on human cognition, its origins, and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too imperfect life choices.
Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer. He taught two of the largest classes in Harvard University’s history, Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership.
WOHASU is the ultimate bridge-building conference. It bridges between rigorous research and applied techniques, individual and collective wellbeing, the sciences and humanities, inspiring stories and hardcore science. All in the service of a happier, more fulfilling life. WOHASU is a celebration of life’s most important and meaningful values.
The World Happiness Summit was really inspiring. The talks were wonderful but so was the audience. This feels like the beginning of a powerful movement of people who will change our culture.
Karen Guggenheim is a powerhouse in the field of happiness. Her magnetic personality is the secret to the success of the World Happiness Summit. Karen has broken new ground with her insights and innovation in mindfulness and wellbeing.
