GLOSS Issue 23 JULY 2015 | Page 62

ARE YOU READY When Anastasia Massouras was looking for a word to describe the way she wanted to make people feel about the workplace, there was only one that came to mind. ‘Happy’. After all, we spend two thirds of our adult lives there - shouldn’t the prevailing emotion be a positive, rather than a negative one? Also, as she says, ‘Happiness is the key to success’. As the Founder of Pure Insights, which specialises in corporate coaching, counselling, and Employee Assistance Programmes, she knows exactly what she is talking about. She is on a mission to bring happy back to Australian organisations, because currently, we are a fairly miserable bunch, with the latest data showing that at any given time, only 25% of us are engaged in what we are doing at work. 62 GLOSS JULY 2015 A GLOSS SUPP