Talks on AI, culture, and people data, for leaders who want healthier, higher-trust teams.
He shares what Happily.ai has learned from 10M+ workplace interactions about one question: how do leaders build teams people trust?
Work gets better when technology helps people trust each other, hear each other, and act sooner.
Tareef Jafferi is the founder of Happily.ai, a Bangkok-based company that helps organisations turn daily employee signals into better leadership habits.
His work combines five startups, people analytics research at MIT, and a technical role at Google, where he saw how operating habits shape culture at scale.
He believes relationships are not the soft side of work but the system work runs on. That belief now shows up in Happily.ai research from 10M+ workplace interactions across 350+ workplaces, and in daily tools used by more than 1,000 teams.
Five themes, all close to his work at Happily.ai. Each talk is shaped around the audience and what the organiser most wants them to leave with.
Where AI helps leaders, where it quietly breaks trust, and who owns the work when roles start to blur.
Trust has a structure. Where it forms, where it breaks, and the small things managers can do about it each day.
How to notice misalignment and risk early, before they show up as turnover, politics, or slow decisions.
Small prompts, better defaults, and visible progress often do more than another large change programme.
What it takes to get from an idea to something people use, for founders, product teams, and students.
Built five startups across social commerce, discovery, and B2B SaaS.
Studied people analytics and entrepreneurship; shaped the early thesis on workplace relationships.
Worked in a technical role and saw how operating habits shape culture at scale.
Founded a people analytics company to make people science practical in daily work.
Conferences, classrooms, and smaller rooms across HR tech, leadership, education, and AI. The full list goes back to 2019.
Asia Tech Podcast · Hosted by Michael Waitze
Listen ↗The Caring CEO · Hosted by Graeme Cowan
Listen ↗MAQE Business Guild · Hosted by Andreas Holmer
Watch ↗Leaderonomics · Hosted by Roshan Thiran
Watch ↗Trust Magazine · Issue 50, New Generation
Read ↗Happily.ai · Original research, 1,000+ teams
Read ↗Happily.ai Research publishes findings from 10M+ workplace interactions across 350+ workplaces. The talks draw from that evidence base, but the research stands on its own.
Explore the researchIdeas from MIT and Google, tested while building a company in Bangkok with Asian and Western teams. The examples try not to assume one kind of workplace.
Each talk aims to leave the room with one simple model to discuss the next day: what to notice, what to change, and what to stop doing.
AI talks include a live demo, and culture talks use recent data. The aim is to show the idea working, not to add theatre.
Keynotes, panels, workshops, and podcasts. Share the audience, topic, location, and date, and Tareef will reply personally with availability and fees. Usually within two business days.
