Gea Peper

Gea Peper helps organizations to structurally increase work happiness and the best employee experience – not as a nice extra, but as a strategic advantage that leads to higher engagement, better performance, and lower turnover.

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About Gea Peper

Gea Peper is an international keynote speaker, multiple bestselling author, and founder of the HappinessBureau. Her mission: to help organizations structurally increase work happiness and the best employee experience – not as a nice extra, but as a strategic advantage that leads to higher engagement, better performance, and lower turnover. Her credo: Happy People, Better Business.

With over 25 years of experience in HR, organizational development, and leadership, Gea has helped more than a hundred companies and institutions to anchor work happiness in their strategy and culture. She is co-author of the bestsellers Become a Wildly Attractive Employer with Work Happiness and Employee Experience, both nominated for Management Book of the Year. Her keynotes combine scientific insights (including her own research), practical experience, and inspiring stories from organizations worldwide.

Her style is energetic, interactive, and inspiring: full of stories, data, and immediately applicable tips that participants can use right away in their work. She knows how to make complex insights about psychology, behavior, and organizational change accessible and engaging for diverse audiences, from management teams and HR professionals to team leaders and employees.

First make your employee happy, the customer will follow naturally.

Gea has spoken at conferences and events in the Netherlands, France, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Curaçao, Aruba, and Suriname. Her articles regularly appear in professional media such as Trends in HR and PWnet.nl, the largest platform for HR professionals in the Netherlands.

With Gea on stage, you won’t get a standard lecture, but an inspiring experience that resonates, prompts action, and has a lasting effect.

Specialist Subjects

In this presentation, you will discover what job happiness truly entails – beyond the clichés. You will gain insight into your personal energy-givers and what gives your work enjoyment the biggest boost. Through practical tips and interactive exercises, you will map out what you can immediately do differently to sustainably enhance job happiness.

How do you go from constant pressure to enjoyment and strength in your work? You will learn which buttons you can control yourself to reduce stress and how to organise your workday so that you end up full of energy. With insight into energy-givers, work-life balance, and consciously dealing with deadlines, you will take concrete steps towards a healthier work attitude.

Ownership is more than executing tasks; it is about responsibility, autonomy, and involvement. In this session, you will experience how ownership increases your job happiness – both on a personal level and in collaboration with others. We will explore how you can take more ownership in your current role and how leaders can facilitate this within teams.

Appreciation is one of the basic needs of people – often underestimated, but with a significant impact. This session shows how genuine, consistent appreciation increases motivation and involvement. You will learn how to make appreciation visible and integrate it into daily interactions within your organisation.

As a leader, you have a tremendous influence on how people feel in their work. In this presentation, you will receive concrete tools to stimulate job happiness as a leader: coaching leadership, showing understanding, and supporting development. You will learn how to create an environment where employees feel seen and heard and are empowered.

Talent-oriented leadership means discovering and utilising what someone is truly good at and enjoys. You will learn how to recognise and develop this, with attention to both the employee and yourself. The session offers tools to connect talents to organisational needs, so everyone grows, performs, and enjoys.

What makes an organisation irresistible to current and future employees? In this keynote, you will receive inspiring examples and strategies to strongly colour your employee experience with job happiness. Think of culture, leadership, appreciation, and the optimal employee journey – all with an impact on attracting and retaining talent.

Employees expect more than a good job; they want an experience where they feel valued, heard, and inspired. This presentation shows how to critically review and optimise the entire employee journey (from application to farewell). With a combination of design thinking, feedback loops, and organisational culture, you elevate the employee experience to a distinctive level that attracts and retains top talent.