HAANA Institute for Leadership and Wellbeing
Imagine waking up in the morning, a smile creeping across your face as you think about going to work soon.
We believe that organisations, working from a higher level of consciousness, are indispensable in serving not only themselves but also the people and society.
The future of leadership will not be built on following old rules. It will be created by those willing to redefine them — and we are redefining them. Join us in changing the business world, redefining common leadership, creating wellbeing organisations, and fostering happy people workplaces.
Our Foundation
Creating a peaceful world in today's turbulent environment requires addressing it from different angles.
We have set out to make organisations a place of happiness and wellbeing, a place people love to go to day after day, a place people can thrive and flourish, experience fulfilment and meaning.
We aim to achieve this goal by offering programmes grounded in tried-and-tested models and mindsets based on well-understood theoretical knowledge.
Why you should join our network!
Enjoy being part of a comprehensive and international network.
- Transformative: Develop deeper self-awareness and a renewed understanding of leadership, enabling you to rethink how organisations can create value for people, society, and the planet.
- Competence Development: Build practical leadership, organisational, and strategic capabilities required to guide human-centred, purpose-driven organisations in complex environments.
- Applied Learning: Engage in experiential learning, real-world challenges, and reflective practice that connect theory with practical tools for leading meaningful organisational change.
- Community: Join a diverse community of learners, practitioners, and change-makers committed to advancing wellbeing, ethical leadership, and positive societal impact.
- Wellbeing: Learn how to design workplaces and organisational cultures that support human flourishing, psychological safety, resilience, and sustainable performance.
- Leadership Formation: Cultivate the inner qualities of leadership — awareness, responsibility, empathy, and ethical judgement — to lead authentically and contribute positively to organisations and society.
Your Goodies and Advantages
We aim to be the most inclusive business school in the world. To make this happen, we apply some very distinct approaches:
- Payment: You will pay according to the wealth of the country you currently live in, based on the World Bank GDP per Capita definition.
- Refund: You will get 50% of your payment back if you cancel your participation before half of a semester is over. Payment is done per semester.
- Flexible Schedule: We will run each class every semester. You are free to decide when to take each semester. This means you may pause your study for one or more semesters.
- Inclusion: We offer MBA programmes for everyone, with or without a prior master's degree and work experience.
- Training Approach: The teaching style is based on the newest scientific research results on education, using the most effective Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) approach throughout all lectures.
- Happiness & Wellbeing: Happiness and wellbeing strategies, for both our employees and you, are the cornerstone of our business school and an integral part of everything we do and offer.
Programme Portfolio
haanaMBA in Human-Centred Management
Part-Time, Fully Online
This is our own MBA Certification. This programme is open to anyone and reflects our value of inclusiveness. Thus, you don't need to fulfil any prerequisites.
This programme benefits you in multiple ways:
- Full MBA content delivery
- An integrated wellbeing framework
- Small cohort learning
- Personal mentoring
- Systemic leadership approach
- Applied real-world projects
- Cross-disciplinary thinking
- Conscious governance model
- International guest faculty
- Access the community ecosystem
Duration: 3 semesters
Start: March and October
You will get a book for each of the more than 30 subjects
You should expect the following effort:
- Time for 2–3 sessions of 3.5 hours duration every week PLUS some Saturdays and/or Sundays during the lecture period
- Time for preparing your presentations
- Time for reflection on the taught topics
- Time for reading the bestowed books
- Time for writing your Master's Thesis
Costs: 3,000 Euro per semester - if you're based in Germany.*
* Your costs are related to the wealth of the country you currently live in, based on the World Bank GDP per Capita definition. You can look up your costs at the Pricing site.
Coming soon - Future programme in development
We are currently in the accreditation process for offering a state-recognised and internationally accredited MBA program, which will be usable for your university career. To apply for this MBA programme, you would then need to fulfil the following prerequisites:
- You would need to hold a master's degree
- You would need to have 2+ years of working experience
This state-recognised and internationally accredited MBA programme will have some things in common with the haanaMBA:
- The subjects taught will be the same.
- The teaching approach will be the same.
- The duration and time invested will be the same.
- The schedule will be the same.
You are a perfect fit if
This MBA programme is for all people who care about social justice, happiness, and wellbeing, for people who strive for a world in which every person has the same chance of growth and development.
People who are eager to learn how to run an organisation where everyone has the chance to thrive and flourish, experience meaning and fulfilment. Organisations that see their purpose in doing something good for society and people, to foster a peaceful and just world.
Our Partners
World Happiness Foundation
The World Happiness Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that builds the capabilities of individuals, communities, organisations, and governments to help accelerate progress toward enhancing happiness and wellbeing for all people. They also provide you with access to the latest innovations, initiatives, policies, experiences, research, technology, and tools that are positively changing the way we feel, understand, and act.
