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Helping leaders make wellbeing a measure of success.
CEO and Co-Founder of WAIOS. Wellbeing strategist, advisor to the C-suite, and keynote speaker.
Bio
Danielle Posa is the CEO and Co-Founder of WAIOS, the Wellbeing AI Operating System, which helps organizations measure wellbeing continuously and treat it as a core business metric. For nearly two decades she has advised leaders on engagement, culture, and wellbeing. She began at Gallup, consulting Fortune 500 clients and serving as liaison to Dr. Deepak Chopra for Gallup's wellbeing research. She later co-created and co-taught Workplace Wellbeing and the Soul of Leadership with Deepak and served as Director of Enterprise Solutions at Chopra Global.
Through her advisory firm, Global Wellbeing Group, she has worked with organizations including Panera Bread, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Viacom, and Amdocs. Today she partners with a select handful of companies, always working directly with the C-suite to integrate wellbeing into business strategy and into the mindset of their leaders. She is a wellbeing advisor to companies including Pearson, Mission Microwave Technologies, Post University, and LinkedIn, and to Kolaghassi Development Company for its $3 billion district at King Salman Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She has also coached C-suite leaders to live more conscious, wellbeing-focused lives.
She served as Vice Chair of the Global Wellness Institute's Workplace Wellbeing Initiative. A childhood cancer survivor and former Make-A-Wish child, she later became a Make-A-Wish volunteer and speaker, and in college raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by completing two triathlons. Speaking since age 15, Danielle is on a mission to change how the world defines success. She grew up in New York as the oldest of four sisters and lives in Washington, DC, with her two children.
Speaking topics
Each talk can be delivered as a keynote, a workshop, or a fireside conversation, and tailored to executives, managers, or the whole organization.
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Wellbeing isn't a perk. It sits at the root of nearly every major people issue, from burnout and turnover to engagement and performance. Danielle lays out the business case with research and real client results, and shows leaders how to turn wellbeing into a lasting competitive advantage.
Best for Executive teams, HR and people leaders, industry conferences
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Most organizations still rely on an annual survey that employees tune out and leaders rarely act on. Drawing on her years at Gallup and the thinking behind WAIOS, Danielle explains why measurement is the real lever for change, and what becomes possible when wellbeing is measured continuously and acted on in real time.
Best for CHROs, people analytics teams, executives, technology audiences
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We judge nations by GDP and companies by profit, yet neither tells us whether people are thriving. Danielle makes the case for Gross National Wellbeing, shares what she learned helping mayors think about measuring quality of life, and explores what changes when cities and countries measure what matters.
Best for Civic and government leaders, urban developers, global forums
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Culture starts at the top. Danielle shows senior leaders how their own wellbeing shapes the health of their organizations, and offers a practical framework for embedding wellbeing across the employee lifecycle, from onboarding and manager development to how success is defined.
Best for CEOs and senior leadership teams, leadership offsites, boards
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Diagnosed with Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at five, Danielle shares how surviving cancer shaped her belief that the mind, the will, and the spirit are far more powerful than most of us understand. A personal and moving keynote on resilience, purpose, and living fully.
Best for Opening and closing keynotes, all-company events, any audience
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Private advisory
For leaders who want to live and lead at their highest level.
I work privately with a small number of CEOs and senior executives. The work is rigorous, intentional, and direct. I hold the people I work with to a high standard of integrity and to a life that's true to who they are, at home and at the top of their organizations.
Engagements are by introduction only.
Selected clients
Pearson, Panera Bread, LinkedIn, AstraZeneca, Viacom, BET, Nickelodeon, Comcast, Petco, Amdocs, Mission Microwave Technologies, Langan Engineering, Post University, The Forward Institute (UK), Singular Systems (South Africa)
Stages and lectures
Kellogg School of Management Executive MBA, Columbia University MBA, Sages and Scientists Symposium, US Travel Association ESTO Conference, Peer150, Transform Conference, Fortune Greece Summit (virtual), UC Berkeley, Lynn University, Make-A-Wish
Ways to work together
Keynotes and panel moderation. Workshops and leadership programs. Executive advising. Continuous wellbeing measurement with WAIOS.
"Danielle has a vitality, spirit, and energy that truly embodies every aspect of human wellbeing."
"She creates an inescapable logic for the value to organizations in cultivating wellbeing."
"She creates a monumental shift in leaders' perspectives on the importance of improving overall quality of life."
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