Leaders Circle

Paul Dutnall
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The Leaders Circle is Work.Life’s invite-only community for founders and CEOs. The podcast brings those conversations to a wider audience, covering leadership, culture, self-motivation and scaling. Hear senior leaders share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.

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    Why Happiness Is a Great Metric but a Poor Target with Matt Phelan, Co-Founder of The Happiness Index

    In this first episode of the Leaders Circle podcast, Paul Dutnall sits down with Matt Phelan, co-founder of The Happiness Index, to unpack findings from the newly released Global Workplace Happiness Report. Built on 11 years of research covering more than 80,000 employees across 115 countries, the report shows how people feel at work is one of the clearest signals of business performance and one of the easiest things to get wrong. Matt breaks down the true workplace priorities of younger employees, illustrates how the remote-versus-office debate overlooks the fundamental need for human connection, and outlines how investor decisions are increasingly driven by employee sentiment data. He also shares useful starting points for any leader who wants to take the subject seriously without turning happiness itself into a target. Key takeaways: Happiness is useful to measure, but once you make it a KPI, people start managing the number rather than the experience behind it. The real value of the office is the connection that happens when people are together. Without it, the informal learning and relationships that build belonging are easy to lose. Younger employees feel that loss most. Early careers depend on being around people who can teach you things you won't find in a handbook. Employee sentiment can be an early signal of business performance. Investors are already looking at how employees feel, because what happens inside a company eventually shows up outside it. AI makes every hire matter more, having smaller teams puts more weight on each person, while the strongest candidates have more choice about where they work. Daily happiness moves with life events because what matters underneath is whether people feel safe to speak up. Do they feel connected to the people around them and clear on why their work matters? Subscribe to the Leaders Circle Podcast. Take a look at what Work.Life can offer your business here: https://work.life/

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The Leaders Circle is Work.Life’s invite-only community for founders and CEOs. The podcast brings those conversations to a wider audience, covering leadership, culture, self-motivation and scaling. Hear senior leaders share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d known sooner.

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    Paul Dutnall
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