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Sunny Grosso
Leadership and culture expert · Founding member of Delivering Happiness (born from Zappos) · 15 years · 300+ organizations · 20+ countries
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Why you should book Sunny Grosso for your next event
- Learn science-backed strategies that strengthen workplace culture, employee wellbeing, engagement, and long-term performance.
- Gain practical tools to create healthier teams, increase resilience, and build environments where people can truly thrive.
- Be inspired by global insights from a trusted speaker who has impacted thousands across 20 countries and leading organizations.
Non-binding request for Sunny Grosso
Sunny helps organizations build the human conditions that make performance, connection, and change possible at any scale. She delivers the science, the story, and the tools that shift how leaders think about their people and what they do on Monday morning.
Sunny Grosso is a workplace expert, global speaker, happiness consultant, and founder of SunYoga who helps organizations create cultures where people and performance flourish together. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, she combines science-backed wellbeing strategies with practical tools that drive meaningful workplace transformation. Having worked with organizations including Google and The Gates Foundation, Sunny has inspired thousands of people across more than 20 countries to cultivate happier, healthier, and more connected ways of working and living.
Book Sunny Grosso for your event
Sunny Grosso is a workplace expert, global speaker, happiness consultant, and founder of SunYoga. She is known for helping organizations transform workplace culture through a holistic approach that integrates wellbeing, human connection, leadership, and sustainable performance.
With more than a decade of experience working with individuals, teams, and organizations around the world, Sunny has developed a unique perspective on what truly allows people to thrive. Her work bridges the gap between personal wellbeing and organizational success, helping companies create environments where employees feel energized, engaged, and empowered to do their best work.
Organizations today face growing challenges related to stress, burnout, disengagement, and rapid change. Sunny addresses these realities with practical, science-backed strategies that can be applied immediately. Her presentations inspire action while equipping audiences with tools they can use long after the event has ended.
Trusted by organizations such as Google and The Gates Foundation and featured in numerous publications, Sunny has built a reputation for delivering engaging experiences that create lasting impact. Her message resonates with leaders, teams, and individuals who want to build healthier workplaces and more fulfilling lives.
Sunny Grosso's approach to workplace wellbeing
What sets Sunny Grosso apart is her holistic philosophy. Rather than viewing wellbeing as a standalone initiative, she explores how workplace culture, human behavior, mindset, and organizational practices work together to influence performance and happiness.
As the founder of SunYoga, Sunny brings a deep understanding of wellness and human potential into the corporate environment. She helps organizations move beyond surface-level solutions and create meaningful cultural shifts that support both business outcomes and employee wellbeing.
Her work focuses on helping people reconnect with what allows them to perform at their highest level while maintaining balance, resilience, and purpose. Through compelling stories, practical frameworks, and evidence-based insights, she demonstrates how thriving workplaces are built through intentional actions and everyday habits.
Audiences appreciate Sunny's ability to make complex concepts accessible and actionable. Her sessions leave participants feeling inspired while also providing clear next steps they can implement immediately.
Why clients book Sunny
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Science-backed, story-rich, deeply practical
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Connects human flourishing directly to performance, retention, and results
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Three distinct keynotes for three distinct audiences
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Strong keynote + workshop combination
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Interactive design, audiences aren't passive, they're participants
Ideal Audience: Senior leaders and executives · People and culture leaders · Tech and innovation conferences · Customer experience teams · Frontline-heavy organizations · Global markets
Global experience and measurable impact
Sunny Grosso's influence extends across continents, industries, and professional communities. Throughout her career, she has impacted thousands of individuals through speaking engagements, workshops, consulting projects, and transformational experiences.
Her work has reached audiences in more than 20 countries, providing valuable insights into the universal principles that support wellbeing, engagement, and human flourishing. This global experience allows her to connect with diverse audiences while understanding the unique challenges organizations face in today's evolving workplace landscape.
Sunny's impact is reflected in her extensive track record:
- 300+ speaking engagements and professional events
- More than 20,000 individuals reached and inspired
- 200+ organizations and teams supported
- Experience spanning 20+ countries worldwide
This breadth of experience gives her a unique ability to identify patterns, challenges, and opportunities that exist across different industries and cultures.
Creating workplaces where people thrive
At the heart of Sunny Grosso's work is a simple yet powerful belief: when people thrive, organizations thrive.
Her keynotes and workshops explore how organizations can create environments that support wellbeing, foster connection, strengthen culture, and unlock greater levels of engagement and performance. Rather than focusing solely on productivity, Sunny encourages leaders and teams to consider the broader factors that influence human potential.
Participants leave with practical strategies for cultivating resilience, improving workplace relationships, enhancing collaboration, and creating cultures that attract and retain talented people. Her approach helps organizations move toward becoming places where employees genuinely want to contribute, grow, and succeed.
When you book Sunny Grosso for your event, you bring in a speaker who embodies happiness, wholeness, and transformational leadership. Her energetic presence, global perspective, and science-backed expertise create memorable experiences that inspire audiences to think differently about workplace culture, wellbeing, and what it truly means to thrive.
For organizations seeking to build healthier teams, stronger cultures, and more sustainable success, Sunny Grosso delivers insights that create impact long after the event concludes.
Customer Reviews
5 of 5
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 GugarGoogle
5 of 5
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 AddabboHead of Global Partner Operations, Google gTech
5 of 5
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 RaePartner, K2 Capital Group
5 of 5
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 LiodiceExecutive Director, Alliance for Innovation & Transformation
5 of 5
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 DiazDaVinci Technologies
5 of 5
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 CervantesDirector of Development, Endeavor
Rated 5.00/5 based on 6 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Sunny Grosso:
THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE
What makes people thrive, how performance follows, and why it matters more than ever
Best for: Leadership summits, entrepreneurship conferences, HR and people strategy events, global organizations
Work has never demanded more from people than it does today. Most organizations are chasing performance while quietly losing the people producing it. Burnout is rising. Engagement is falling. And the usual solutions, more programs, better perks, resilience training, aren't moving the needle. Because we've been solving the wrong problem. We've optimized for output and forgotten about the humans generating it.
As a founding member of Delivering Happiness, the movement born from Zappos, Sunny spent 15 years defining how organizations use the science of wellbeing to build cultures that perform, adapt, and grow. This keynote is the distillation of all of it. Not about being cheerful. About understanding the conditions that allow people to flourish, bring their whole selves, find meaning, and genuinely engage. Because when those conditions exist, performance doesn't have to be demanded. It becomes natural.
Takeaways:
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What happiness actually is and isn't ·
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The elements of wellbeing that make people truly thrive
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Why authenticity, meaning, and connection are structural, not soft
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How to create the conditions where people flourish and results follow
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A new lens on leadership that is both more human and more effective
Happiness at work is not about feeling good all the time. It's about creating the conditions to rebound, work smarter, and live fuller.
Keynote by Sunny Grosso:
WHAT ROOTS, WILL RISE
Why human connection is the invisible foundation of every high-performing team
Best for: HR and people strategy conferences, culture transformation initiatives, team offsites, women's leadership events, global markets
Organizations are investing in culture and still losing people, not to competitors, but to quiet disconnection. People are showing up physically but withdrawing emotionally. And when connection breaks down, so does everything built on top of it: trust, creativity, innovation, performance. What we call disengagement is often protection.
This is not a talk about connection. It's an experience of it. Sunny brings together neuroscience, positive psychology, and the extraordinary science of trees to reveal what real connection looks like and what it unlocks. Through interactive moments, audiences experience the science in real time, feeling the difference between transactional teams and ones that truly hold. They leave closer to each other than when they arrived, with simple tools ready to implement Monday morning.
Takeaways:
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The neuroscience of connection and what happens when it's absent
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Why psychological safety is the soil everything else grows in
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An experience of real connection felt in the room
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The hidden cost of disconnection in your organization right now
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Simple repeatable tools to strengthen the roots in your team. Starting Monday.
Trees don't grow by competing for light. The depth of their roots is what allows them to rise. Great teams are the same.
Keynote by Sunny Grosso:
WHOLE AT THE EDGE
How staying whole is the strategy that puts organizations ahead of AI, disruption, and constant change
Best for: Technology and innovation conferences, future of work events, entrepreneurship summits, rapid organizational change
AI is reshaping everything. And most organizations are treating this as a crisis to manage rather than an opportunity to lead, pouring energy into transformation programs while quietly depleting the one thing that makes any of it possible: the humans driving it. Most change initiatives still fail. Not because the strategy is wrong. Because the people carrying it are running on empty, operating in a state Sunny calls SIC: Stressed, Interrupted, and Chronically uncertain.
In this bold forward-thinking keynote, Sunny reveals what organizations thriving through constant change actually do differently. They stay whole. They invest in The Whole Four: the four human conditions that restore what change depletes. Purpose returns meaning. Connection returns belonging. Authenticity returns psychological safety. Mindfulness returns presence. From wholeness, everything else becomes possible: faster adaptation, stronger performance, bolder innovation, lasting results.
Takeaways:
Why constant change is making people SIC and what to do about it
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The Whole Four: restoring human energy at scale
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Why organizations winning through AI invest in wholeness first
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The art of removal, why subtraction is often more powerful than addition
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The three P's of change planning and the one most leaders miss
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Practical tools to lead change that actually lasts
Organizations that own the future know that thriving through AI and change is about human energy. That's where they invest.
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