Hi
I'm Neil
I help people live happy lives.
Everyone wants it.
But where do we find it?
Sure, we all push at the gym to lose five pounds.
But how many of us push for our happiness?
We know that happiness is a choice. We just didn’t have the resources to choose it. Until now.
I grew up feeling anxious and overwhelmed, and have come to need and rely on "hows." We all inevitably fall back into negative spirals, so I share simple—dead simple, ruthlessly simple—systems that get us back on track.
I’m a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcaster, and positive psychology researcher who focuses my work on the relationship between happiness, trust, and leadership in business.
My TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” is ranked as one of the ten most inspiring of all time. As a leadership keynote speaker, I have spoken to millions of people around the world at Fortune 100 companies, Ivy League schools, and to Royal Families in the Middle East.
YES
happiness is a choice.
But it's how we get there that matters.
With higher-than-ever rates of societal anxiety, depression, and loneliness, I help teams and leaders learn simple, science-backed systems that can really stick, because we can really do them, because they're really simple.
Neil presents common sense suggestions for achieving happiness...
that will most definitely motivate new rituals and change habits in your life."
– STEVE REINEMUND
Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
About Neil
Neil has written ten New York Times and #1 International Bestsellers including:
The Happiness Equation,
a 9-step guidebook to happiness based on new positive psychology and neuroscience research;
Two-Minute Mornings,
a simple habit-based tool to help prime our brains for positivity each day;
and his original classic
The Book of Awesome,
an endless catalog of simple pleasures based on his 100-million hit, award-winning blog.
Neil’s books have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists and sold millions of copies.
Before leading GlobalHappiness.org and keynote speaking, Neil spent a decade running Leadership Development and working for the CEO at Walmart, the world’s largest company. He was responsible for CEO onboarding, executive development, and talent management across the organization.
Neil has degrees from Queen’s University and Harvard Business School.
He lives in Canada with his wife Leslie and their sons.
Official Bio
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 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. As a leadership keynote speaker Neil has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the world including Fortune 100 companies, Ivy League schools, and Royal Families in the Middle East.
Neil has written five New York Times and #1 International Bestsellers including: The Book of Awesome, a catalog of simple pleasures based on his 50-million hit, award-winning blog, Awesome is Everywhere, an interactive introduction to meditation, and The Happiness Equation, a nine step guidebook to happiness based on new research. His books have been on bestseller lists for over 200 weeks and sold millions of copies.
Before leading The Institute for Global Happiness and keynote speaking, 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 in hundreds of outlets including CNN, BBC, The Today Show, The Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, and Forbes.
Neil has degrees from Queen’s University and Harvard Business School.
He lives in Canada with his wife and sons.
NEIL’S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN HUNDREDS OF OUTLETS INCLUDING
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