Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is an executive coach, TEDx speaker, author, consultant and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations make flourishing their competitive edge and operate at their fullest potential. Ashish is the author of the best selling book “Hardwired for Happiness”, in which he outlines an easy-to-follow recipe that can help anyone increase joy, health, love and meaning in their lives.

Prior to starting Happiness Squad, Ashish was a Partner at the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company and spent over two decades helping thousands of leaders and their organizations achieve breakthrough performance through increasing their effectiveness, building more human centric cultures and transforming capabilities at scale.

Ashish has a Masters in Business administration (MBA) from Chicago Booth and both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. He is married and lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Lizzie, his son, Ashwin and their pug, Hufflepuff.