Lessons Learned from COVID-19 - FC
Global Conference 2024

Happiness and Sustainability: Changing Our Approach to Growth

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We live in a world that often values output, busyness, and economic growth over subjective outcomes such as human joy. This panel explores the sustainability of economic growth from the perspective of happiness, discussing ways in which employers, investors, and communities can shift their approach to growth to achieve long-term, lasting human well-being. We take a scientific approach to happiness, incorporating lessons from economics, psychiatry, and neuroscience to discuss concerns such as sustainability, mental health, and societal changes resulting in growing loneliness and isolation. This panel will explore practical changes to our definition of outcomes and success, as well as daily strategies we can use to achieve a meaningful life and sustainable happiness as individuals and communities.

    Moderator

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    Maggie Switek

    Senior Director, Research, Milken Institute

    Speakers

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    Jen Fisher

    Human Sustainability Leader, Deloitte
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    Hal Hershfield

    Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
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    Mariano Rojas

    Professor of Economics, Tecnológico Nacional de México
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    Robert Waldinger

    Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard Study of Adult Development, Massachusetts General Hospital