Meet the founder
🎤 TEDx Speaker 📚 2× Amazon Bestseller 🏆 Laughter Professor 🌍 15+ years · 500+ companies

Shareen Richter

Africa's leading Laughter & Happiness Professor. The person who turned laughter into a board-ready science, and built a whole Fairmount space around it.

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WhatsApp: +27 82 337 3777

Shareen Richter, Founder of HappiSpace
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"Laughter Professor" Named by Dr Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga
15+ years in practice
500+ companies served
2 Amazon bestsellers
31% avg cortisol drop
What Shareen offers

However you found her, there's a door for you.

Shareen works with corporate teams, individuals and schools, the same science, shaped to who's in the room.

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For your team
A facilitated reset your people feel in the room and your board can measure, The Human Reset Experience™.
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For you
Join an open class or become a member. The same reset, for one person carrying too much.
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For your school
A warm, opt-in, non-clinical reset for learners and the staff who hold them.
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Her story

From burnout to board rooms

Shareen Richter didn't discover laughter coaching by accident. She discovered it the hard way, through her own burnout, her own nervous system in revolt, and the startling realisation that the thing that saved her was something people had been told not to take seriously: joy.

Armed with an Industrial Psychology Honours degree and two additional business qualifications, she set out to build what no-one else had: a scientifically rigorous, professionally facilitated approach to workplace wellbeing that could speak the language of HR directors and CFOs.

"Laughter is not an add-on. It is a measurable intervention. And the cortisol numbers agree."

The result? A 15-year body of work spanning 500+ companies, a TEDx talk, two Amazon international bestsellers, a Fairmount venue purpose-built for nervous-system recovery, and a title, Laughter Professor, given to her personally by Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga, in recognition of her mastery of the field.

Today HappiSpace is Shareen's flagship: the venue, the corporate experiences, the Felt Shift Method, and an AI-powered production studio that's turning her work into one of Africa's most distinctive wellness media brands.

Shareen Richter facilitating a laughter coaching session

"Dr Madan Kataria personally named Shareen the 'Laughter Professor', the highest recognition in the field of laughter coaching."

Credentials & recognition

The science behind the smile

These aren't just titles. They're 15 years of field work validated by institutions, publishers, and the world's foremost authorities in laughter and wellbeing.

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TEDx Speaker

Delivered a TEDx talk on happiness, resilience, and the science of human wellbeing, putting laughter coaching on the global stage.

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Twice Amazon Bestseller

Two books achieving Amazon International Bestseller status, practical, science-backed guides to joy, resilience, and nervous-system reset.

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"Laughter Professor"

Title bestowed by Dr Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga, the highest recognition in the global laughter coaching field.

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Industrial Psychology

Honours degree in Industrial Psychology plus two additional business qualifications, the academic rigour behind the joyful practice.

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Media & press

Featured on ETV South Africa and in major SA business publications. A recognised voice on workplace wellbeing and resilience.

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500+ companies served

15+ years of corporate facilitation across South Africa's biggest brands, from Eskom to Pfizer, Momentum to UNISA.

Her methodology

The Felt Shift™

The Felt Shift™ is Shareen's proprietary framework: a measurable nervous-system reset delivered through laughter coaching, breathwork, and somatic movement. It's not comedy. It's not laughter yoga. It's a science-backed intervention with before-and-after proof your board can actually read.

Cortisol drops an average of 31.9% (Kramer & Leitão, PLOS One, 2023). Endorphins spike. Social trust scores climb. The room visibly, measurably shifts, and Shareen captures it in an anonymous report your HR director and CFO can share in their next board pack.

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What makes it different
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Peer-reviewed science

Cortisol reduction, endorphin release, and social bonding, all backed by published research, not wellness folklore.

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Board-ready reporting

Anonymous before-and-after data captured during every session. ROI your auditor can sign off on.

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Built for corporates

No fluff, no candles, no trust falls. Designed for South Africa's most demanding boardrooms and HR teams.

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Meet Mr Frazzle

The world's most relatable stress character, and Shareen's co-host

Mr Frazzle is HappiSpace's signature character: a sweet-but-grumpy worry-bundle who personifies cortisol overload. Rainbow mohawk (calm), full red (frazzled). His on-screen Frazzle Meter ticks down in real time as Shareen guides him, and the audience, through The Felt Shift™.

He stars in the HappiSpace podcast, lives on this website as an interactive helper, and is built from scratch with AI production tools that Shareen's team develops in-house at The HappiSpace Studio.

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As seen & heard

In the media

Shareen's work on laughter, resilience and corporate wellbeing has been featured across South Africa's leading platforms.

📺 ETV South Africa 📰 SA Business Publications 🎙️ Keynote speaker circuit 📻 Radio interviews 🏆 Small Business Awards SA finalist

"Shareen doesn't just bring energy into a room, she changes the chemistry of it. I have the cortisol data to prove it."

, Shareen Richter, on what she learned after 15 years in the field

Ready?

Work with Shareen

Whether it's a keynote, a team reset, a venue hire, or something you haven't seen on any other wellness brief, start here.

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shareen@happispace.co.za · +27 82 337 3777 · Fairmount, Johannesburg