Creating Holistic Success for Leaders & Teams
Creating Holistic Success for Leaders & Teams
USA
Experience the fusion of wellbeing and growth with Sunny Grosso. Over 13 years, she’s ignited change in leading firms like Google and The Gates Foundation.
Request fees and availability5 out of 5 stars
Sunny clearly knew what she was doing, and adeptly combined theory with real-life examples and practice – and all in a compelling and friendly manner. Bottom-line, this is one of those sessions that you leave wanting more.
Send a simple request. You’ll get a quick reply with fees and availability
Keynote Speaker Sunny Grosso is globally recognized for her expertise in workplace culture, leadership development, and employee wellbeing. With over 13 years of experience, Sunny specializes in helping organizations achieve sustainable success by integrating happiness and business growth. As a motivational speaker, Sunny has transformed the way teams and leaders approach work, inspiring them to unlock their full potential through positive psychology, mindfulness, and purposeful leadership.
Booking Sunny Grosso for your event means gaining access to actionable strategies that not only boost productivity but also foster a thriving, resilient company culture. Sunny has worked with over 300 organizations in 20 countries, including industry giants like Google and The Gates Foundation, delivering proven results that last. Her motivational keynotes empower teams to drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and improve overall wellbeing—leading to a happier, more engaged workforce.
Sunny Grosso is known for creating tailored keynotes that address the specific needs and challenges of each organization, offering practical tools and insights that teams can immediately implement. By focusing on a holistic approach to success, Sunny helps companies build cultures that are as focused on growth as they are on employee happiness and satisfaction.
Book Sunny Grosso for your event to experience her transformative approach to leadership and culture. For booking inquiries, expect a high-energy, impactful presentation that inspires lasting change and drives meaningful results for your organization.
See keynotes with Sunny GrossoWhen we embrace authenticity and prioritize humanity – businesses and people thrive. Sunny takes the audience on an inspiring journey through her personal story and into the rich field of positive psychology to discover what creates happiness at work, and how we are redefining success with the pivotal concept of Wholebeing Wellbeing.
Sunny illuminates the role of highs and lows in our resilience and how to embrace the full spectrum of work/life balance for true belonging, innovation, and success with a Double ROI– return on investment and ripple of impact. She introduces the metaphor of the Garden to nurture your wellbeing while building others, and gets real with the modern challenges from stress and burnout to distraction and AI.
This talk will motivate you to pursue a more authentic and fulfilling work-life and leave you with actionable tools to improve your business. Get ready to be inspired to make meaningful changes in your work and personal life!
Takeaways:
There is a surprising key to achieving happiness in work (or life) often overlooked in science, yet critical for attracting, retaining and building enduring workplace wellbeing: the ability to be your true self. This captivating keynote explores the latest research from positive psychology on the crucial role of authenticity and psychological safety.
From the lens of one of the world’s first happiness consultants, Sunny shares a powerful tool for leaders and employees alike to understand the hidden, protected and obscured parts of their true self, and why it is essential to realize connection, values, purpose and other key elements of happiness. Examine why Radical Self-Knowledge is the future of happiness, explore the obstacles that hinder self-realization, and pathways to overcome them. This talk will shift your happiness and set you on a journey of self-discovery, reconnection, and actualization of yourself and your team.
Takeaways:
Leaders and managers today must continually adapt for their people and business to thrive. Sunny weaves story and statistics from 13 years of work in the field with hundreds of organizations to lead positive work cultures through volatility, change, stress and strain. She shares a proven roadmap to achieve happiness at work that truly works for people while creating natural business results. Lean into the top 3 flaws that derail change management, how these corrupt results, and the human-centric solutions to build a repeatable framework for positive change.
This talk explains the essentials for leaders of all levels to adapt new human approaches to building a culture of wellbeing, with keen insights into what creates a workplace where attraction, retention, and innovation prosper. Your team will be empowered with tools to enhance your organization’s wellbeing and create a more adaptable, authentic, thriving workplace that delivers on business imperatives.
Takeaways:
We are living through a Workplace Renaissance. Massive changes in how we live and work have created new needs in our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. While it’s no secret that wellness at work is good for people and profits, many modern programs fail to effectively address these needs, not materializing into improved health of the human or business results.
In this interactive keynote, Sunny shares a model for holistic wellness at work and takes audiences into the strongest determinant overall – career wellbeing. She shares the essentials to actualize wellness, so it takes hold and becomes the collective habit, which is where most efforts fail. Explore the key steps to build a culture that empowers everyone in the organization to thrive while increasing profitability and ROI. The answer is not just to rethink health and happiness, but to seize the reins of the Wellness Renaissance by revitalizing people and profits with a human-centered approach. The result? Sustainable results for the human being and the bottom line.
Takeaways:
Sunny leads audiences on a dynamic exploration of workplace wellbeing in this talk-meets-experience, blending the ancient wisdom of yoga with the science of happiness to address modern demands of work. She emphasizes the business imperative for wellbeing drawing on evidence-based insights from positive psychology to rise to challenges of disengagement, stress, and burnout. Participants delve into yoga’s science-backed revelations through small experiences, micro discussions, and debriefs.
This experience actively engages participants in vital wellness tools such as mindful awareness, movement, and purpose. Attendees discover how these tools enhance leadership effectiveness, foster belonging and promote work-life harmony. They leave with personal insights and practical steps to thrive in work and life.
Takeaways:
Sunny clearly knew what she was doing, and adeptly combined theory with real-life examples and practice – and all in a compelling and friendly manner. Bottom-line, this is one of those sessions that you leave wanting more.
Gerardo Cervantes
Thank you for the very inspiring speech you gave on Thursday at the Endeavor annual conference “Think Big” in Bogota. Like in my old school days, I used many pages writing ideas that I started applying them just the next day at work.
Juan Diaz
WE DID IT! We pulled off a meaningful program that will help our members transform their organizations in a positive way for years to come. I’m so grateful to you and the entire team for placing your trust in us and being tremendous partners in learning. You all have created an incredible ripple of impact for us as well.
Erika Liodice
Sunny was brilliant, both as a speaker and a coach. She really owned it and was a hit with our clients. I was impressed with the process and personally got a tremendous amount [out] of the workshop. Sunny delivered happiness with a WOW.
Kerwin Rae
You were inspiring and insightful, you knocked it out of the park. Your journey really resonated with me, and the tools you presented are something I intend to bring to my wider global team.
Lynette Addabbo
To be frank, while I had originally signed up to “participate” in the session I was so busy on Friday that I tuned in to have it as background noise. Within the first five minutes, I was so blown away by what you were saying that I sat with rapt attention for the duration.
Bernard Gugar
How did you get interested in happiness at work?
My first real job was a grey-celled, err cubicled (!), soul-sucking experience right out of college that scared the bejeezus out of me. I realized that people were at work, in order to escape work. It made no sense to me. How could we spend half our lives waiting for the weekends, suffering in quiet withdrawal of our potential? Weren’t we also robbing the world of our gifts?
So I ran. Far! Across the country to California, where my search for a better way began. Naturally, I became a bartender! It was easy happiness, but you guessed it, short lived. I found myself job-hopping for the next decade. And then abruptly, I came to a turning point. An injury sidelined me just as the first Dot-Com Boom went bust. I was jobless, broken, and hadn’t found the fulfillment I yearned for. I felt like a failure, and worse, a pervasive emptiness had settled in.
Then a young CEO gave me a book called Delivering Happiness. I saw a new path to happiness, and for the first time felt something like a calling. I realized my own search and failures uniquely qualified me to build Delivering Happiness, and help the world work happier.
What is happiness at work?
Happiness at work is when you can show up and act in alignment with your values, the core of what you believe, and what makes you you.
When you connect authentically with the people around you. When you are making progress in meaningful tasks. When you have reached a healthy level of autonomy in your work. And when you can sense the greater purpose of your work, beyond money. It’s not about bonuses, status or ego gratification. Not for long at least. And it’s not about perks and pool tables!
Could you tell us 3 tips for achieving happiness at work?
1. Be you. Nothing will bring you happiness long term, in work or life, if you cannot be you. Yet, being ourselves in a world that has told us who to be, how to be and even when to be (!) is not easy. It takes curiosity to do the inner work of knowing our true selves, and courage to be just that. Vulnerability is at the heart of this. But beautifully, on this journey, we not only find ourselves and start to flourish, we inspire others with the courage to be themselves. And. As we arrive here we find we have so much more to give, which benefits the organization tremendously in ROI. It becomes a positive cycle between us, our organization and our work community. We call this Me –We – Community Model.
2. Live by your values. So how do you be you? One of most important skills of the future is to know yourself. The world is changing faster than ever, and so have our expectations of work. It’s not about stability or contentment anymore, it’s more about thriving. To navigate and thrive, we have to know ourselves. That’s the new stability! When we’re rooted in who we are, we have stability no matter what’s changing around us. We can do in a simple way by living by our values. These are our most core beliefs, that make us who we are, and the roots we can grow deep into the earth to stabilize our happiness in a changing world.
3. Get cozy with your Why – it’s been around forever. The Japanese call it Ikigai. Simon Sinek calls it the Golden Circle. And it’s hugely popular now. It’s your Purpose. It’s also extremely elusive, surrounded by folklore and mystery. The trick is, we don’t have to find our purpose to be happy at work, and in fact, it rarely happens that way! Merely being on the path or exploring our purpose is sufficient, and among all the forms of happiness, purpose is the most sustainable path to happiness.
Do you have a favorite experience from your career?
One of the first presentations I did was with our CEO Jenn Lim, in front of Bill and Melinda Gates. And there she was, Melinda Gates, regal and poised and dressed disturbingly smart in the front row! Nerves ran wild like electricity through my body. I was on the edge of a cliff about to share our message with Melinda… I bordered on peeing my pants! Just as I stood up, trying to be cool as the designer stage I was about to speak on, Jenn raised a brow and pointed down my torso. “Your fly’s undone.”
How much does humor factor into your keynotes?
Humor is essential to integrating new ideas! It diffuses stress and relaxes the brain. We take in information more readily, associate it more freely with our own experiences, and apply it to our lives. But also, humor is an extremely effective way to build community. It highlights similarities in a group as we all get the joke, laugh, and suddenly realize something common is at play in the room. We start to feel safe. We sense a new permission to connect with each other. We feel more comfortable being ourselves. Relating. Building new bonds. And in the best talks, a palpable micro-community develops.
What do you gain personally from being a public speaker?
There is nothing more exciting than when you feel a spark suddenly start to glow inside you. It’s the spark of an idea that is yours. It’s bloomed from a deeply authentic place of your own truth, and hopes, and dormant dreams. It’s often connected to you purpose. And this little spark carries the energy to change lives, from your own, to others, even rippling out to change the world. We need these sparks, they touch a part of us waiting to wake up. They bring out passions and purpose, and give us energy to act. It’s how real personal change happens, how we solve big problems at work, and together, in this world. Seeing that spark ignite, offering that spark as a speaker, inspires ME.
Describe yourself in 3 words
Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness , a company she and Tony Hsieh cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH has worked with...
Keynote speaker Shawn Achor possesses an undeniable artistry in explaining the real connection between happiness and success. Shawn's TED talk on happiness currently has more than 10 million views and his books are national bestsellers. His topics...
Karen M. Allen is a Mindset Expert, TEDx Speaker, and the founder of the 100% Human movement. She is passionate about equipping individuals with the tools and resources to feel better, live better, and achieve their goals with a healthy...
Unlock Success with Rochelle Gapere, Attorney, Happiness Coach, and Entrepreneur. Her captivating charisma and scientific happiness techniques are the key to elevating your team's well-being and productivity. She also helps change...
Keynote speaker Shereen H. Eltobgy is a student of the world and embraces everything life has to offer. Shereen is a development diva and happiness Expert, she understands the importance of happiness, communication, and leadership for businesses to...
A successful happiness and wellbeing coach, Kim Strobel uses a real and down-to-earth attitude to empower business leaders to lead lives that are more conducive to better health and increased happiness. Kim is nationally recognized as an effective...
Denecia's audience of entrepreneurs, professionals, and organizations are always seeking new and innovative ways to improve productivity, time management, conflict resolution, and work-life balance, for themselves and their workforce, for the long...
Inspirational speaker Maxie McCoy is on a mission to inspire people, globally, to become better versions of themselves in their professional and personal lives. Maxie has a powerful voice and message for any generation. Her down-to-earth and honest...
Send a simple request. You’ll get a quick reply with fees and availability
