Gratitude featuring Alex Ikonn

Culture Shock

It’s the end of season one for Culture Shock, and the end of a momentous year for HappyHQ and we’re feeling grateful. In this wrap-up episode, we wanted to explore with you the act of gratitude and what it can really mean for your life and for company culture. So, we're also grateful to be able to share highlights from our conversation with Alex Ikonn, Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. Alex has created a very successful business by helping people bring the practice of gratitude into their lives through the five-minute journal, which has sold over 1.7million copies globally.

We talk about:

• what gratitude is and why it is so important
• how to create a practice of gratitude
• the link between gratitude and appreciation
• ways to incorporate gratitude into your company culture

Gratitude is such a powerful tool both personally and professionally. We hope that today’s episode has inspired you to think of ways to incorporate gratitude into your workplace and beyond.

Useful resources:

Mindful - How to practice gratitude

Gallup report on employee recognition

Traction by Gino Wickman

About your hosts:

Janine Jacobs and Louisa Mourdant co-founded Happy HQ, a people-first company culture specialist. In a world where culture is central to company success, HappyHQ helps guide companies along the way. We have dissected culture into 8 key areas and 70 topics. From workshops and culture mapping to policy writing and change implementation we can help across it all.

Janine Jacobs:

Janine Jacobs is a people-first culture specialist and co-founder of HappyHQ. Together with her co-founder, Louisa, she guides companies and HR leads with the tools, frameworks, and practical support they need to create people-first cultures. Previously an agency lead and communications strategist, Janine has lived and worked in multiple countries, delivering multi-market campaigns for some of the world's leading brands. Her studies in positive psychology, and experience working with multicultural, global leadership teams, all inform her mission; to change the world of work as we know it.

Louisa Mourdant:

Over 10 years’ experience working directly with leaders on people, culture and recruitment strategy. Alongside HHQ, Louisa is also the Founder of I Love My Job, a scaling B Corp accredited recruitment company bravely doing things differently and experiencing huge success.

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