WORLD HAPPINESS FELLOWSHIP SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
On March 20, the World Happiness Fellowship brings together a dynamic cross-section of Knoxville — from C-suite executives to emerging leaders — spanning industries including healthcare, finance, automotive, education, nonprofit, and entrepreneurship.
This annual International Day of Happiness gathering blends high-level thought leadership with inclusive community connection, creating meaningful networking across sectors and leadership levels while spotlighting organizations committed to culture, performance, and impact in East Tennessee.
Sponsoring the Happiness Event offers unmatched value for your brand. As the exclusive sponsor in your category, your company gains worldwide media exposure, reaching a joyful, engaged audience eager for positive experiences. Your sponsorship ensures high brand visibility across all event promotions, digital campaigns, and on-site activations, creating lasting impressions. With the sponsorship period lasting until March 20, of the next year’s event, your brand enjoys continuous association with happiness, positivity, and community engagement, positioning you as a leader in your field while connecting with audiences in a meaningful and memorable way.
MARCH 20, 2027
Saturday Breakfast Seminar
Wellness as the Driving Force of Leadership in the Age of AI
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ABOUT OUR 2026 INAUGURAL EVENT
AI Is Changing Work — Here’s How Leaders Ensure Humans Stay Essential
Research from Shawn Achor (Harvard Business Review, 2012) shows that when teams operate from a positive cognitive state:
• ~31% increase in productive energy
• ~37% higher sales performance
• ~40% greater likelihood of promotion (leadership readiness)
• Up to 3× greater creativity
• ~23% reduction in the negative effects of stress
These effects are durable. When positive habits are practiced for as little as three weeks, gains persist months later — indicating systemic change in how the brain processes information, not temporary motivation.
“World Happiness Fellowship embodies happiness as a science, skill and tool to empower employers and employees alike to embrace simple actionable strategies together to improve overall wellbeing.”
~ Alexia Georghiou, Founder, World Happiness Fellowship
A retreat-style experience for leaders who need to refuel.
This is not another conference.
It’s a pause.
The World Happiness Fellowship is an in-person retreat designed for leaders across industries and disciplines who are carrying a lot—and want to leave resourced, grounded, and clear.
If you are leading through complexity, change, or burnout and you want leadership to feel more steady, more human, and more effective, I invite you to join us. ~ Alexia Georghiou, Founder World Happiness Fellowship
Who will be there:
Leaders from business, nonprofit, government, education, healthcare, and community organizations.
Come as you are.
Leave refueled.
HOSTED BY ALEXIA GEORGHIOU
Alexia Georghiou is a keynote speaker, organizational development consultant, and founder of the Knoxville Happiness Coalition, the parent organization of World Happiness Fellowship. She helps leaders navigate the AI paradox—balancing smarter tools with human-centered systems—by embedding happiness habits, connection, and well-being into work, learning, and leadership. Author of The Future of Work is Human and The Future of Success is Happiness, Alexia uses her V.A.L.U.E.S. Model—Vision, Action, Leadership, Unity, Engagement, and Synthesis—to guide leaders in aligning performance with purpose.
As an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee, she teaches courses on civility, listening as a leadership skill, executive presence, and burnout, helping professionals thrive in high-pressure environments shaped by AI and rapid change. Her writing has appeared in Florida SHRM Newswire and MSN News, and she has been interviewed by the Knoxville News Sentinel and HR Dive. Drawing on lived experience as an executive woman in menopause, Alexia created Menopause Matters: Supporting Women in the Workplace, featured in HR Pulse by ASHHRA.
Under her leadership, the Knoxville Happiness Coalition Academy is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® through self-paced online and in-person programs, equipping leaders to build workplaces where technology enhances human potential, not replaces it.
Speaking REEL— Keynote—University of Tennessee System Administrative Professionals Summit. 11/12/25 Hilton Knoxville, TN https://youtu.be/aaW0Jz7593U