Jessica Weiss

In this engaging and entertaining presentation, learn from workplace culture and happiness expert Jessica Weiss, as she shares groundbreaking and actionable research that helps leaders from across the country build a deeper sense of resilience, psychological safety, and belonging with their teams. By helping them decode the heart of happiness, leaders will understand how to build and sustain happiness, and drive high performance not by force, but because their teams find themselves in happier, more inclusive environments.

Attendees will learn:

• How to drive engagement and connection regardless of whether teams are hybrid, remote or in-office

• What the five critical steps are to building a culture of trust and resiliency

• The toolkit that creates a culture of collaboration and creativity

• Why a culture of happiness is the foundation for all high performing teams

• The root of happiness and how to achieve more of it on a daily basis

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 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. What we can then understand is that by developing and focusing on happiness first, we are able to build incredible teams and not worry about the things that kept us up at night in previous years.

Attendees will learn:

• How to build better work relationships by creating the time to do so

• Effectively communicate across departments and teams

• Different strategies to build better individual and team cohesion

• Increase connection by establishing stronger rapport and how to do it

• Breakdown the us vs. them barrier rampant in many workplace

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.

Attendees will learn:

• The relationship between happiness and burnout, and what they can teach us

• Three steps to stop burnout before it happens

• Five tools to overcome disconnection, low morale and overwhelm

• How happiness can mitigate exhaustion and improve wellbeing

• The foundation of happiness, where it comes from and how to enhance it

In this engaging and entertaining presentation, learn from workplace culture and happiness expert Jessica Weiss, as she shares groundbreaking and actionable research that helps healthcare leaders build a deeper sense of resilience, psychological safety, and belonging within their medical teams. By helping them decode the heart of happiness, leaders will understand how to build and sustain happiness, and drive high performance not by force, but because their healthcare teams find themselves in happier, more inclusive environments that ultimately improve patient care.

This presentation equips healthcare leaders with the knowledge and tools to create positive work environments that not only benefit their teams but also translate into superior patient care and organizational success in the ever-evolving landscape of modern healthcare. 

Attendees will learn:

• How to drive engagement and connection in healthcare settings, whether teams are working in hospitals, clinics, or utilizing telehealth platforms   while addressing burnout and compassion fatigue   

•  The 3 critical steps to cultivating trust and resilience in high-stress medical environments, crucial for handling emergencies and maintaining consistent care quality  

• The toolkit that creates a culture of collaboration and creativity, leading to innovative patient care solutions

• The root of happiness and how healthcare professionals can achieve more of it on a daily basis, despite the challenges of their demanding roles

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