Annie McKee, PhD is a best-selling author, respected academic, speaker and advisor to top global leaders. Her latest research was just published in her new book, How to Be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope, and Friendship, published by Harvard Business Review Press. As a coach to executives in Fortune/FTSE 500 companies and organizations around the globe, she uses a person-centered approach that helps leaders develop their emotional intelligence, enhance their strategic thinking abilities, and build resonant cultures.
She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches and leads the PennCLO Executive Doctoral program and the MedEd Master’s program. Annie’s books include three bestsellers published by Harvard Business Review Press: Primal Leadership, with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis (2002/2014); Resonant Leadership, with Richard Boyatzis (2005), and Becoming a Resonant Leader, with Richard Boyatzis and Frances Johnston (2008). She is also the author of Management: A Focus on Leaders (Pearson/Prentice Hall 2014) and is a prolific writer and blogger, featured on HBR.org
Annie works with leaders and their teams in businesses, not-for-profits, governments and NGOs around the world. Her services include executive coaching, top team development, and culture change. In all of her work, she focuses equally on the needs of individuals and their institutions to ensure that each person and each company can reach for success and excel. Annie’s approach is deeply respectful of everyone she works with—she believes that people can and do want to thrive in the workplace and, with her support, they can discover answers to even the most challenging dilemmas they or their organizations face.
Annie’s research is done in service of her clients’ desire to better understand their individual and collective strengths and challenges. She has developed research methods for gathering information from employees, leaders, and customers that feel authentic and conversational, but in fact yield valid and useful information. This information is then used to formulate action and change plans related to leadership practices, team dynamics and organizational culture—all in service of improvement, engagement, and excellence.
What is the nature of human happiness, and how do we achieve it in the course of our professional lives? And is it even worth pursuing? This book explores answers to these questions by presenting research into how happiness is measured, frameworks fo
