TEDxNicosiaSalon

Speakers

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• Melpo Pittara

  MELPO PITTARA is a biomedical engineer by profession yet she is best known as an analog girl at heart, living in a digital world. An extreme sports aficionado, she gets a generous dose of adrenaline rush surfing salty shorelines and beyond. Melpo combines her travels with her passion for sports, and delightful food experiences. Her adventures vary from snorkeling with Hawaiian turtles, to hiking in the Wicklow mountains in Ireland, and sipping Korean high tea following yet another lifetime trekking experience on the Seonghsan Ilchulbong tip, a volcanic formation also known as the Sunrise Peak in the Korean Jeju island. Some of Melpo’s greatest joys are socializing and meeting new people. ‘People are made up of countless pixels, just like pictures,’ she says ‘and I find it fascinating exploring those pixels.’

• Shannon Dolan

  SHANNON DOLAN puts the grin in the daily grind. As Chief Happiness Officer, she’s on a mission to transform our stress-based work culture using the happiness science that gives professionals superpowers at work and in life. Shannon has worked as a corporate consultant in both the United States and Germany, forging the most formidable productivity and performance tools over the last decade from scientific studies that demonstrate how happiness is the holy grail of success in business. She explains that happiness at work is more than a feel-good, fluff emotion; it’s a physical state that primes the brain for its best. Shannon gives busy teams a framework to speedily build the happiness muscles that turn instinctive stress into a catalyst for high-performance. What makes Shannon smile is turning frowns upside down and transmuting the fact that people are stress superstars into an advantage, unleashing untapped potential with a lion-like roar and a sprinkle of fairy dust from science