Happy Ever After Transform Your Leaders, Teams, and Organizations with the HAPPY System™

A robust and flexible framework for organizations, teams, and leaders to be their best. Happy Ever After: Transform Your Leaders, Teams, and Organizations with HAPPY System™ is a robust book based on leading industry research on what it takes to create sustainable change, bringing together the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, wisdom from ancient philosophies, thought leadership on coaching and experience of working with hundreds of leaders across the world.

This book will help the readers to truly understand coaching and what makes it so powerful, as well as develop skills to transform themselves, their ability to coach and be a coach-like leader. The book is designed to enhance their presence and mastery to influence, inspire and impact their teams and organizations. The book will contain the blueprint of what it is to coach at a mastery level and create a culture of coaching within organizations. It shares with utmost clarity, and detailed examples, all you need to re-write the future for yourself, your team and organization. This book re-defines the way we relate to ourselves, our teams and life itself.

Avni Martin is a globally recognized Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a thought leader and speaker, and the founder and director of an ICF Accredited coach training school, WASAMBE Pte Ltd, which stands for ‘ I was, I am, and I will be’ . With over two decades of expertise, Avni served as a global director of ICF Coaching Education, and director of research for ICF Singapore for six years where she led pioneering research for organizational development across Southeast Asia, working with three of the largest Human Resource Associations in the region and the leaders of 1300 organizations, to create awareness, excellence, and advancement of the coaching profession. Creator of the HAPPY System™ , Avni empowers leaders and teams to reframe their past challenges, unlock their present potential, and design their future success. ‘ This book,’ she says, ‘ is not just about change— it’ s about rewriting the stories so we can lead with a greater sense of clarity, purpose, and possibilities in creating a happier workplace.’

Foreword xi Author’ s Note xiii Preface xv Chapter 1: Introduction to Coaching 1 Chapter 2: What is the HAPPY System™ ? 21 Chapter 3: Who Are We? 39 Chapter 4: How Do We Relate to Ourselves and Others? 63 Chapter 5: What Can Help Us Better Relate to Ourselves and Others? 81 Chapter 6: What Is Our Purpose? 97 Chapter 7: What Stands in the Way of Our Highest Potential? 107 Chapter 8: How Do We Communicate to Create Awareness? 127 Chapter 9: How Do We Shift What Stands in Our Way? 147 Chapter 10: How Can We Turn Awareness into Action? 165 Chapter 11: How Can We Shift Habits? 199 Chapter 12: How Can Organizations Develop a Coaching Culture? 215 Chapter 13: How Can We Apply the HAPPY System™ for Team and Group Coaching? 243 Acknowledgements 273 Endnotes 277