Neil Pasricha
Achievement & Peak Performance, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Motivational / Inspirational, Personal Growth, Psychology
Travels from Ontario, Canada
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Neil Pasricha Profile
Happiness researcher and positive psychology guru, Neil Pasricha is known for his bestselling books, The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome. He is Director of the Institute for Global Happiness, where he helps management teams and others learn how to drive long-term happiness, so that they can be more engaged, creative, and productive.
Like many, Pasricha was raised to think that if he worked hard, he’d succeed and by default, find happiness. However, he began to second guess the traditional western happiness model after his first marriage fell apart and his best friend took his own life, one right after the other. One of Pasricha’s coping mechanisms was to start writing 1000 Awesome Things, a simple blog which has since gotten 60 million hits and won “Best Blog in the World” two years in a row from the Int’l Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
In pursuing his own happiness, Pasricha found out a wealth of information and techniques that soon allowed him to effectively teach happiness as a skill. He was in charge of Leadership Development at Walmart for 10 years and has also worked with/spoken at LinkedIN, 3M, Google, Microsoft, and many other internationally known companies. His first TED Talk, “The 3 A’s of Happiness,” is ranked as one of the most inspiring TED Talks of all time, and he gives around 50 speeches per year worldwide on leadership, engagement, and mental health.
Pasricha is happily married and lives in Canada with his wife and two children.
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Leadership Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, Positive Psychology Researcher
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 60-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 two sons.
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