Happiness Tripwires — Book Joelle Kaufman to Speak
Keynote Speaker · Leadership in the Age of AI

Happiness Tripwires

The most connected teams sell more and lose fewer of their people. Happiness Tripwires builds that connection automatically.
Joelle Kaufman speaking
What connection is worth

Connected teams don't just feel better. They perform better.

18%
higher sales
23%
more profit
50%
less turnover
56%
better performance

What the most connected teams deliver versus the least. Meanwhile, workplace loneliness costs U.S. employers $154B a year. Sources: Gallup Q12, BetterUp, HBR.

Why book it

Your team walks out ready to lead differently.

Most keynotes are forgotten by the coffee break. This one hands your audience a tool they use Monday morning: a simple, science-backed way to build the connection that drives sales, keeps their best people, and holds a team together under the pressure of AI.

And they don't just hear it. In four seconds, on their feet, they feel their own stress drop, the kind of moment a room is still talking about at dinner.

Who it's for

Book this when connection is the thing that's slipping.

Bring Joelle when your best people are doing fine work instead of their best. When remote and hybrid teams have lost the hallway moments that used to hold them together. When an AI rollout has people anxious, overloaded, and heads-down. Your audience leaves able to rebuild the connection that makes teams sell more, stay longer, and perform under pressure.

The talk

Small moments that drive outsized performance, by design, not by luck.

A happiness tripwire is a small moment of connection, deliberately planted, that anticipates a need and fires automatically. It is the most underused lever a leader has on how people perform, heal, and stay. This keynote gives your audience the science, the practice, and the reason connection is the human edge in the age of generative AI.

This isn't theory. Joelle spent forty years watching cancer move through her family and learned that social support is the real difference-maker, then built that conviction into her teams early, which is what made them resilient, effective, and memorable. When the hardest year of her own life came, she didn't just endure it. She orchestrated connection from the people around her, and that same instinct became a method that turbo-charges team performance. Plus, it was more fun. Your audience leaves able to build the same thing: the connection that drives sales, keeps their best people, and makes even hard work lighter.

What your audience leaves with
A tool

A three-step process to design a happiness tripwire for anyone they lead.

A feeling

A live experience of the biology. The whole room measurably relaxes, on cue.

A method

A connection-first way to lead people and agents through pressure, for every AI rollout and beyond.

A question

One thing to bring to every AI rollout in their company.

Joelle turned the worst year of her life into one of her happiest using the same science that makes teams perform, and shows leaders how to engineer that connection on purpose in the AI era.
Formats

Built for your room.

30–45 min keynote Half-day workshop Virtual or in-person Tailored by audience

Every talk is tailored to your theme, your audience, and the outcome you need on the day.

Also available: Crushing Curveballs — Transforming Problems into Possibilities. A mindset keynote on turning the unexpected into advantage. Ideal as a second session or a conference opener.

Booked for

Rooms where the stakes are real.

Leadership summits Sales kickoffs Marketing leadership Future-of-work & AI tracks Patient experience Women's leadership
What audiences say
“This was an amazing workshop. I left feeling happier, and like I had a simple plan to actually embrace and celebrate the small bits of joy that often go overlooked.”
Jenny Young, Chief
“Joelle shared contagious energy on an important topic for all marketers and brand-builders. Enjoyed it a lot.”
Lauren G., Zuora
“Love her storytelling style. She weaves in the points but keeps your attention.”
K. Murphy, Chief
“Completely engaging, immediately applicable. Wish I had learned this sooner.”
Bill Forreider, Edward Jones
Audience feedback

The numbers, verified.

100%
found it valuable
100%
of clients would rehire
94%
call it engaging

Measured by Talkadot.

About Joelle
Best-selling author, Crushing the Cancer Curveball TEDx speaker $4B CMO & CRO Host, Kicking Cancer's Ass
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