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Keynote One: Happiness
The Happiness Equation:
Science-Backed Habits to Cultivate Positive Mindset
We live in a world where we’re bombarded by change, expectation, and uncertainty. News media hijacks our brains while social media tells us we are never good enough. Anxiety, depression, and loneliness rates are at record highs.
What we need is a splash-of-cold-water talk that is science-backed, story-laden, and full of laughs.
Audiences learn how it is possible, despite larger tectonic plates they cannot control, to use specific research-backed tools and practices to cultivate a habit-based positive mindset every day.
Takeaways:
BASED ON NEIL’S #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE HAPPINESS EQUATION.
Keynote Two: Resilience
The Resilience Equation:
Resilience and Breakthrough Performance In Times Of Change
As AI quickly disrupts and evolves industries the good news is you still control…yourself. You choose how to show up every day by cultivating a resilient mindset to steady and ready yourself for the future.
Join New York Times bestselling author Neil Pasricha as he draws from his #1 international bestselling resilience guidebook, You Are Awesome, in this transformative session on how to cultivate positive, resilient habits to fuel long-term well-being in changing times.
Stop waiting for success to lead the way.
Start shaping the habits that help you grow, thrive, and create your own momentum.
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Keynote Three: Growth
The Science of Positive Growth Mindset:
Does great work lead to happiness? Or…does happiness lead to great work?
Neil Pasricha shares counterintuitive research-based answers in this fun, fast-paced, research-grounded tour of the emerging neuroscience and positive psychology landscape.
Neil shows how cultivating a positive growth mindset results in 31% higher productivity, 37% higher sales, 48% closer work relationships, and 300% greater creativity—and then shares how to get there.
Based on fresh research Pasricha published in Harvard Business Review, this is a high-energy, takeaway-laden talk that gets audiences buzzing.
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Keynote Four: Leadership
Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others:
Science-backed practices to help managers show up to lead
Which company is #1 on the Fortune 500 and has been for over a decade? Walmart. The retail behemoth’s rise to half a trillion dollars in sales with over two million employees has been well-documented.
But what hasn’t been documented is how they uniquely develop, nurture, and grow leaders up through those ranks.
Neil served as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart for a decade and worked for two country CEOs while partnering with Harvard Business School to develop the first global leadership program inside the retail giant.
In this talk he shares how leaders can use science-backed practices to help themselves show up to lead teams of two, two thousand, or two million. It doesn’t start out there. It starts with inside—with yourself. Neil will show you how.
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Keynote Five: Change
Happy Habits:
Tiny Changes, Massive Results
The only constant is change. And the latest disruption? Getting disrupted. It doesn’t help that Gallup is reporting a whopping 79% of the global workforce is disengaged.
But what if there were simple habits that could be unlocked during our choppy changing times that genuinely helped employees find ballast to drive engagement, connection, and positivity? It’s not crazy talk. It’s actually happening.
Using his unique blend of science-backed models and lean-in-and-laugh stories, Neil shares simple habits and, more importantly, teaches audiences how to make them stick.
In this talk, Neil shares science-backed practices contributors, managers, and leaders can use starting today that help them show up as their best selves during times of change.
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Keynote Six: Culture
Building a Culture of Trust In Distrustful Times
3 Ways to Increase Trust with Customers
Culture starts with trust and according to the Edelman Trust Barometer we have all-time low levels of trust in media, business, and government. We have never believed less, agreed less, or trusted less.
Yet, building a culture of trust, and developing the community that surrounds it, remains essential for any organization, startup, or brand. So what are new ways to build trust in an era of mistrust?
With research and current business case examples Neil shares what works, what doesn’t, and how to figure out who to really believe.
This talk debuted as a SXSW Featured Keynote and includes 3 modern ways organizations can build more trust.
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Neil’s first TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” has been ranked one of the 10 Most Inspirational TED Talks of all time with over 3,000,000 views. He has a disarmingly accessible approach that’s part research, part storytelling, part stand-up.
New York Times / #1 Bestselling Author
Neil is the New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author of ten books including, The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome. His books have sold over 2 million copies in dozens of languages including Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese.
Neil crushes onsite. (Just ask Mel!) He offers a Q&A, a book signing, and he’ll speak for 60 minutes (his most popular) 5, 25, 45, 75, 90, or over 100! Afterwards he’ll happily pose for photos, answer 1-on-1s, or send a quick video to a loved one. With his unique questionnaire and pre-call before the event—before the contract, even!—Neil dials in to your industry, organization, and objectives which helps ensure his keynote is tailored, on-point, and 👌🏽🎯.
Neil is the director of GlobalHappiness.org and spent a decade as Director of Leadership Development inside Walmart, where he worked for the CEO. He focused his Master’s at Harvard on Leadership and Organizational Behavior and he’s a feature writer for Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. He walks the walk. This is his life.
The goal of Neil’s keynotes is not motivation—it’s application. He’s not a “why” speaker—but a “how” speaker—delivering ruthlessly simple takeaways audiences can actually practice. Leveraging his 3 E model, he provides Entertainment first, Education second, and Empowerment third to ensure your audience gets real behavior change long after the standing ovation.
Neil’s first TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” has been ranked one of the 10 Most Inspirational TED Talks of all time with over 3,000,000 views. He has a disarmingly accessible approach that’s part research, part storytelling, part stand-up.
New York Times / #1 Bestselling Author
Neil is the New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author of ten books including, The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome. His books have sold over 2 million copies in dozens of languages including Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese.
Neil crushes onsite. (Just ask Mel!) He offers a Q&A, a book signing, and he’ll speak for 60 minutes (his most popular) 5, 25, 45, 75, 90, or over 100! Afterwards he’ll happily pose for photos, answer 1-on-1s, or send a quick video to a loved one. With his unique questionnaire and pre-call before the event—before the contract, even!—Neil dials in to your industry, organization, and objectives which helps ensure his keynote is tailored, on-point, and 👌🏽🎯.
Neil is the director of GlobalHappiness.org and spent a decade as Director of Leadership Development inside Walmart, where he worked for the CEO. He focused his Master’s at Harvard on Leadership and Organizational Behavior and he’s a feature writer for Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. He walks the walk. This is his life.
The goal of Neil’s keynotes is not motivation—it’s application. He’s not a “why” speaker—but a “how” speaker—delivering ruthlessly simple takeaways audiences can actually practice. Leveraging his 3 E model, he provides Entertainment first, Education second, and Empowerment third to ensure your audience gets real behavior change long after the standing ovation.
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Neil Pasricha is a leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the world’s most popular TED speakers.
He has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the world at organizations such as Coca-Cola, Pinterest, and The Cleveland Clinic.
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