Nevriye Yesil is a Happiness Studies master's graduate, PhD student, international author, and trusted advisor to founders, executives, and individuals seeking to lead with greater purpose, resilience, and fulfillment.
She studied happiness under Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, a prestigious Harvard professor, and combines evidence-based research with decades of lived experience. Drawing on the teachings of Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, Arthur Brooks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Tony Robbins, she equips people with practical tools to create happier, healthier, and more meaningful lives.
For more than twenty five years, Nevriye has been a student of human behavior. Not from a distance, and not from a textbook, but inside boardrooms, family kitchens, hospital corridors, and the quiet rooms where women finally tell the truth about how they are really doing.
What she brings to her work is not borrowed research. It is lived experience, sharpened by formal study, and shaped by the mentors who have trusted her with their teaching.
The shift came when she stopped chasing motivation and turned, instead, to the science. She completed her Master's in Happiness Studies under Dr. Tal Ben‑Shahar, the prestigious Harvard professor whose course on positive psychology became the most attended class in the university's history.
She is now in the process of her PhD in Happiness Studies, continuing the work of translating rigorous research into practical, embodied tools that ordinary people can actually use.
Nevriye is committed to making the world a happier place, one person, one team, and one organization at a time. Her work lives at the intersection of positive psychology, behavioral science, and the lived wisdom of three continents.
That work has grown into the Happiness Leadership Institute, the Sprinkle Happiness podcast, four published books, and the stages she now speaks from across Europe and the United States.
"You know the feeling when you have everything, and you feel nothing? That was me.
Nevriye Yesil
Every tool is rooted in peer-reviewed positive psychology, behavioral science, and contemplative research. Nothing is borrowed from the wellness industrial complex.
Nothing grows in a dysregulated nervous system. We begin in the body, with safety, breath, and coherence, before any strategy is offered.
Real change is slow, quiet, and embodied. Nevriye works with fewer people, more deeply, by design.
Gentle, intelligent, and honest. No spiritual bypassing. No bootcamp energy. No promises that the research cannot keep.
Nevriye's work is shaped by leading voices in positive psychology, neuroscience, and human performance. What she teaches, she studies and learns from the best.
Nevriye completed her M.A. in Happiness Studies under Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, a prestigious Harvard professor, and is currently his PhD student.
Author of multiple best selling books including Build the Life You Want, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. His framework on the science of happiness has shaped Nevriye's work with leaders and the way she guides clients through the second half of life.
Dr. Joe Dispenza's work on the neuroscience of change, meditation, and human potential informs the practical tools Nevriye uses to help people rewire patterns and create lasting transformation.
As a Tony Robbins Platinum Partner, Nevriye has spent years in the room with Tony, absorbing his insights on human needs psychology, strategic intervention, and high-stakes behavior change firsthand.
Happiness is not a reward for the lucky few. It is a practice, a posture, and a quiet form of leadership available to anyone willing to begin.
The fastest way to grow is to stand close to the people who already know. Every hour you spend guessing is an hour you cannot buy back. Nevriye has spent decades learning from the best in the world so that you, your team, and your people get the shortcut to what actually works.
Need a guide who has already walked the path?
Alongside her work with organizations and leaders, Nevriye walks with women one to one and in small groups. She is the founder of the Happiness Circle™, a growing community in Lakewood Ranch where women gather to learn the practice of happiness together, and quietly watch their lives change because of it.