Hacking Happiness: How to Intentionally Adapt and Shape the Future You Want

by Penny Locaso

Learn to love uncertainty--and shape the future you wantYou have a successful life; a professional career, nice home, maybe kids or even a dog, so why are you so damn unhappy? Spread so thin at work, nothing gets the attention it needs; tasked with leading others through rapid change, you're not sure where you're heading yourself. Disruptive technology, catastrophic global events and increasing mental health problems means your secure and linear pathway to happiness no longer exists.Success today is not about the perfect plan to achieve more, manage change and mitigate risk. Our brave new world is calling us to throw out any rulebook and leap into what we fear most--the unknown.That's exactly what Penny Locaso did when she turned her life upside-down to tackle our happiness-deficit problem. She emerged as the world's first Happiness Hacker and the inventor of the Intentional Adaptability Quotient(R) a quantifiable method for individuals and organisations to become more skillful at, and even relish, adapting to rapid change.Welcomed by business leaders worldwide, IAQ(R) catapulted Penny to prominence as a TedX Talk star and faculty member at the acclaimed Singularity University by showing that in our highly disruptive present we must embrace instability and complexity to achieve clarity, purpose, and the sense of meaning that brings real joy.Learn how experimentation, danger, and even failure are crucial to happiness and success Take courage and focus on what you're avoiding, not what you're missing Reskill yourself and others to accept--and even enjoy-uncertainty Explore your IAQ(R) focus, courage, curiosity, accountability, connection, experimentation and reflection This book is an opportunity to look at work and the world through a new lens and see that by surfing on the edges of our comfort zone we--professionals, leaders, everyone--can intentionally adapt to create a successful and fulfilling future.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 5, 2020

About the author

Voted one of the most influential female entrepreneurs in Australia Penny is the world’s first Happiness Hacker, on a mission to teach 10 million humans, by 2025, how to intentionally adapt in order to future-proof happiness.

Penny is her own ongoing experiment in Hacking Happiness. Six years ago she turned her life upside down in pursuit of happiness. She left a sixteen-year career as an executive, relocated a family from Perth back to Melbourne, left an 18-year relationship and started her own purpose driven company HackingHappy.co

Through her journey Penny discovered that happiness is found not in the wanting of more but in the things, we are avoiding. She now works with individuals and organisations around the globe helping them define happiness on their terms and building the confidence to experiment to bring more of it into the every day.

Penny Locaso created The Intentional Adaptability Quotient®. A world-first Hacking Happiness measurement tool and education program that decodes the skills required to not only navigate but thrive in complex and uncertain change.

Alongside Penny's entrepreneurial endeavours, she is a faculty member at the esteemed Singularity University. This position has her working alongside some of the best technology and Artificial Intelligence innovators in the world, enabling her to gain valuable insights into emerging technology in addition to decoding the human implications of rapid change. She has partnered with prestigious brands including Google, Microsoft, Bookings.com SalesForce, Deloitte and KPMG, to name a few.

Today Penny is an international keynote speaker, educational innovator, and the author of Hacking Happiness.

To enquire about working directly with Penny or securing her for your next event email hello@hackinghappy.co