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Neil Pasricha is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent over five years on bestseller lists, and sold over a million copies. Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and after ten years heading Leadership Development at Walmart he now serves as Director of The Institute for Global Happiness. He has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders, creating global programs inside the world’s largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. He lives in Toronto with his wife and sons.
Neil Pasricha helps people live happy lives.
He is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher focused on the relationship between happiness and leadership in business.
Neil is one of the most popular TED speakers in the world with his first TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” (2010) ranked as one of the ten most inspiring of all time and his second “How will you maximize your tiny, short life?” (2016) the world’s first ever TED Listen, composed entirely of questions.
Neil has written ten New York Times and #1 International Bestsellers including: The Happiness Equation, a nine-step guidebook to happiness based on new research, Two-Minute Mornings, his research-backed morning habit, You Are Awesome, his manual on building resilience, and The Book of Awesome, his original catalog of simple pleasures based on his 100-million hit, award-winning blog, His books have been on bestseller lists for over 200 weeks and sold millions of copies.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Neil spent a decade running Leadership Development and working directly for two CEOs at Walmart, the world’s largest company. He was responsible for CEO onboarding, executive development, and talent management across all levels of the organization.
His work has been featured by CNN, BBC, The Today Show, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Mel Robbins, and Oprah Winfrey.
Neil has degrees from Queen’s University and Harvard Business School.
He lives in Canada with his wife and family.