Madalena Carey is the founder and director of Happiness Business School, a corporate happiness academy. She is also course director of the MBA Organisational Happiness at ISEC Lisboa and a Corporate Happiness Specialist with Executive Training in the Science of Happiness and Well-Being, Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health.
With a law degree, Madalena worked for several years in immigration and compliance, focusing on international education – but soon realized that that was not her path to happiness. Following her discovery, and through coaching for personal and professional performance, she then started helping people improving their realities. Through her experience (and tons of data), Madalena realized the number one reason for her clients’ unhappiness and depression was related to labor issues – and found in her the urge to fix it. Madalena is today a Corporate Happiness Expert & Consultant, with several certifications: Chief Happiness Officer, Life Coaching, Business Coaching, and Neuro-linguistic Programming – besides a number of Professional Trainings: Science of Happiness (edX), Science of Well Being (Yale University), and Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health (University of Sydney). To this day, Madalena has helped hundreds of people and companies all around the world. Her main mission? Boosting meaningful work cultures to promote purposeful careers.
Mary Helen Ribeiro Pombo is Program Director of the healthy societies and healthcare innovation portfolio at Salzburg Global Seminar. At the organization, she focuses on enabling innovative collaborations to tackle complex health and wellbeing challenges. In her role, she leads on the development of Sciana – The Health Leaders Network and the health and economic wellbeing program, which seeks to advance leadership for healthy and equitable workplaces. Mary Helen is also a facilitator of the award-winning initiative called the Pentacell Project, which supports student mental health and wellbeing, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
In her previous role as Policy fellow at the Institute for global health innovation at Imperial college, she contributed to the first attempts to measure culture in Northwest London hospital in collaboration with the Imperial College health Partners.
Mary Helen brings nearly a decade of experience contributing to global health, international development and gender initiatives in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and the US.
Milica Jovic, Partner & Chief Heart Officer at Heartcount Measurable impact of happiness at work is one of the most important wellbeing elements. During the session/presentation we will show how Heartcount as an automated solution is helping companies from different industries to reduce fluctuation rate and tackle challenges in the workplace.
The app measures 8 key drivers of employee engagement in real-time and provides transparent communication between company management and employees.
The goal is to share how employees feedback can assist leaders to make even better decisions and increase their ROI
Cruzr is part of a new generation of smart, autonomous, cloud-based service robots.
With autonomous navigation, powerful built-in chatbots and IoT connectivity, this robot delivers smart and efficient interactions with end users.
Leads Sonae Group’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Employer Branding areas, taking an active role in the design of the Group’s diversity strategy and in the promotion of an inclusive culture. In parallel, she actively contributes to enhancing the relevance of the Sonae brand as an employer, ensuring that the group is able to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
Previously, her career was focused on the Internal Communication area, having led it both at Sonae and Optimus.
She began her career in 2006 in Sonaecom’s Communication team, working in the areas of Corporate Communication, Media Advisory Services, Events Management and Internal Communication.
She has a degree in Media Communication from the University of Minho and a training in Management from the Porto Business School.
Dr. Rigobert Kefferputz has a founder’s mindset with a passion for men’s work, corporate culture and wellbeing. As a physician turned coach, Rigo works on cognitive, emotional and somatic levels in order to bring about change for individuals, teams and organizations. He knows adversity and overcame a severe stuttering diagnosis to become a sought-after speaker and group facilitator. He believes everything should be an experience and is committed to engaging audiences worldwide. Rigo founded a medical retreat centre, represented his profession federally, and has worked with leading brands internationally as a chief happiness officer. His mission is to help individuals be happy, healthy, hard workers – the kind of person who leads himself with respect, compassion and resiliency. He is an invitation to step into something you can believe in – the real you.
Attract Talent and Creativity, promote personal and professional development, encourage learning and knowledge-sharing, provide a healthy and comfortable environment for everyone to feel good and fulfilled, that’s her job!
Graduated in Social and Organizational Psychology at ISPA, Inês has over 16 years of experience in HR area. Her professional career began in the consulting business at Select Vedior group, helping other companies to find the best human resources and managing outsourcing teams in different sectors such as telecom, banking, insurance, retail, etc…
In 2010, she is challenged to join Siemens. In 2013 she joined Sonae Group, as HR Responsible for Worten Portugal.
She is currently the Head of People to Worten Iberia.
Diogo Vieira da Silva is a co-founder and Executive Director of Variações since 2018. He became an LGBTI+ activist at a young age, having joined several projects, including leading Portugal in the European coordination of the It Gets Better Project from 2017 to 2018. As a business analyst passionate about Diversity and Inclusion, he serves as a curator for the Culturgest Foundation’s international conference on Diversity and Inclusion issues. He holds degrees in International Trade, Hospitality Management and Digital Marketing, and a Master of Business Administration.
Dr. António Maia Gonçalves joined the Unilabs team in February 2020, taking on the role of Medical Director for the group in Portugal.
Born in Mozambique 54 years ago, he graduated in Medicine from the University of Porto and is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care. He has a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Navarra and a PhD in Bioethics from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa with the thesis “Bioethics in Intensive Care”. He was Director of the Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit at the Pedro Hispano Hospital in 2009. He also coordinated the Internal Medicine Service and Intensive Care Service at Hospital CUF, in the city of Porto from 2012 to 2015. From 2010 to January 2020 he was a Graduate Assistant in the Intensive Care Unit and responsible for the postgraduate training area in Hospital de Braga. Throughout this period he maintained clinical activity as a specialist in Internal Medicine at Casa de Saúde da Boavista, where he has also been Director of the Intensive Care Unit since 2005.
Marta Bastos dos Santos was born in Lisbon in 1985. She graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon Law School (2003-2008), with a Postgraduate degree in Public Company and Market Law (Portuguese Catholic University, 2014) and a Postgraduate degree in Economics and Social Investment Law (University of Lisbon Law School, 2017).
She started her professional activity in 2008 at EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A, where she worked as a lawyer in the General Secretariat and Legal Advisory Services until December 2021, with a special focus on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Compliance and Foundations.
During this period she also participated in induction sessions for new employees, as well as in various training courses developed by the company, particularly Leadership, Effective Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Applied Creativity and Strategy.
Accustomed to promoting various volunteering activities on a personal basis, she has always participated in numerous EDP Group volunteering initiatives since the beginning of its programme, having been part of Christmas Campaign Management teams, and work teams and participated as a jury of partner programmes.
Since January 2022 she has been a member of the Social Impact Coordination Office as coordinator of the EDP Group’s Volunteer Programme and EDP’s representative on the governing bodies of GRACE – Responsible Companies, Just a Change and Aprender an Empreender – Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Portugal (Junior Achievement Portugal).
Isabel was born on the 8th of May 1986 and has a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
She did a post-graduation in Cinema and Television at the Catholic University and a Radio and Television course at Cenjor. For 10 years she presented entertainment programmes and intuitively and naturally realised that what moves her is the creation of content that inspires, motivates and leads others to act.
She is the author of the books “My Good Plan”, “The Food that Makes me Shine”, “I Know How to be Happy” and the children’s book collection “Let’s Do Good”.
She discovered his passion for running in 2015. This desire to generate a positive impact on others led her to create new business areas, such as an electro-stimulation gym – Efit Isabel Silva – a healthy snack brand, IncríBel and VOA.
On 14 December 2016 she launched the blog Iam Isabel and which today, in a more mature version but equally joyful and energetic, is the DoBem channel.
Sofia de Castro Fernandes is one of the most sought-after speakers in Portugal.
Author of five books and one of the most read blogs in Portugal, blog of the year 2019, “Às 9 no meu Blog” (Cinco Estrelas Award). Graduated in Law, postgraduate in Marketing Management and in Positive Psychology. Jurist, Trainer, Human Resources Consultant, she became Executive Coach and her international career led her to embrace projects in London, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Currently, she passionately contributes to the development of individual and collective talent of some of the best multinationals in Portugal, in areas as Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Time and Stress Management (GTD) and Influential Communication.
Guest professor at ISEG, University of Coimbra, Porto Business School, NOVA SBE and ISEC.
Over 18 years of work experience in Consulting, Strategy, Innovation and Tecnhology in multiple sectors at Portuguese and International markets. On her previous experience, Inês Vaz Pereira led Technology consulting projects at PSI-20 Portugal’s companies in sectors such as Energy, Retail, Services, Telecommunications, Aviation, Technology, Bainking, Construction, Insurance, Public Sector – among others.
Inês joined EY S.A. in August 2021 and assumes the position of Associate Partner in People Advisory Services area (Portugal, Angola and Mozambique) and in People Advisory Services Digital HR HUB area.
Jorge is CEO of be:coach, a company specialized in Coaching and Human Development.
Bestselling author and International Speaker, he was the first Portuguese-speaking Coach and Trainer in the World to be part of the No. 1 World Team, Tony Robbins. Specialist in Habits and High Performance, with more than 15 years of national and international experience, creator of the #belegendary movement, inspires people and companies to create their happiness and achieve extraordinary results.
Rita Viana is the People & Culture Business Partner at Vestas Technology Centre Porto – an R&D Centre belonging to Vestas – the most sustainable company in theworld, recognized by Corporate Knights on January 2022. Having joined Vestas in 2021, Rita has been supporting the growth of the Technology Centre, which currently employs more than 500 employees of 25 different nationalities, specialized in different areas of engineering.
Rita holds a degree in Psychology and different specializations in Business and HR Management. Together with the educational background, Rita has more than 19 years of experience in HR in different multinational companies within the sectors of Renewables, Retail and Pharma.