Meet our Founder Alexia Georghiou

Alexia Georghiou is a keynote speaker, organizational development consultant, adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee, and founder of the Knoxville Happiness Coalition, parent organization of the World Happiness Fellowship. She is emerging as a leading voice on happiness habits for the future of work, helping leaders build human-centered workplaces where AI adoption, employee well-being, leadership presence, and organizational performance can thrive together.
Alexia speaks on the future of work, workplace happiness, technostress, AI adoption, executive presence, burnout prevention, and human-centered leadership. Her interactive, experiential keynotes—including Happiness Habits for the Future of Work, The AI Paradox: Reducing Technostress While Elevating Talent Performance, and Executive Presence: The Sweet Spot from the Inside Out—help organizations strengthen connection, meaning, creativity, resilience, and performance in fast-changing environments.
Author of The Future of Work is Human and The Future of Success is Happiness, Alexia uses her Happiness Habits Method, The Connection Meter, and her V.A.L.U.E.S. Model—Vision, Action, Leadership, Unity, Engagement, and Synthesis—to create measurable shifts in how leaders and teams work, connect, and thrive. Her work has been featured in MSN News, Florida SHRM Newswire, SHRM, HR Dive, and the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Alexia has delivered keynote talks and learning experiences for SHRM, SHRM Talent, the University of Tennessee, UPEACE, SIOPSA, and HR Tennessee. Through SHRM-approved professional development programs, she equips leaders to create workplaces where technology handles the automated work and humans do what only humans can do best.
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