Lorena Amaral Villar
Pedagogue, Chief Happiness Officer (CHO), and Co-founder of Be Gente
Pedagogue and Chief Happiness Officer (CHO), focused on mental health, well-being, and corporate happiness.
Partner at Felicistart and co-founder of Be Gente, she works on transforming organizational environments into more human, conscious, and psychologically safe spaces.
About Lorena Amaral Villar
Pedagogue and Chief Happiness Officer (CHO), trained at Reconnect, currently studying Organizational Psychology and People Management at PUC RS.
She is a partner at Felicistart, a company dedicated to promoting mental health, well-being, and corporate happiness, and co-founder of Be Gente, a movement that fosters self-knowledge and human development for a lighter, conscious, and purpose-aligned life.
Her trajectory combines education, psychology, and people management, with a focus on transforming corporate environments into more human, healthy, and psychologically safe spaces.
Passionate about human potential, she advocates that the future of organizations lies in the integration of productivity, empathy, and a culture of care.
Chapter Theme
The Invisible Architecture of Happiness and Mental Health at Work
From fearless leadership to strategic compliance with NR-1 in the prevention of psychosocial risks
This chapter explores psychological safety as an essential foundation for mental health, well-being, and happiness at work, as well as the sustainability of contemporary organizations through care for their main resource: people. Based on scientific evidence, emblematic cases, and an updated version of NR-1, the author discusses how psychologically unsafe environments with cultures based on fear of open communication produce illness, organizational silence, low performance, and systemic failures, while psychologically safe environments strengthen humanized management, innovation, and the prevention of psychosocial risks. The text proposes psychological safety as a structural framework for organizational performance, management of psychosocial risks, and a culture of well-being and happiness at work.