<p>Neil Pasricha thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living.</p><p>All his current work focuses on themes of gratitude, happiness, failure, resilience, connection, and trust. </p><p>Neil is the the author of 10 books and journals including: <em>The Happiness Equation,</em> a nine-step research based guidebook to living a happy life, <em>The Book of Awesome</em>, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog <em>1000 Awesome Things, Awesome Is Everywhere</em>, an interactive introduction to guided meditation for children, Two-Minute Mornings, a simple habit-based morning practice to begin your day with positivity, and <em>You Are Awesome, </em>a nine-step guide to building resilience told through stories and research. Neil’s books are <em>New York Times </em>and #1 international bestsellers, have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, and have sold over 2,000,000 copies across dozens of languages.</p><p>Before this Neil worked for a decade at Walmart and served as Director of Leadership Development where he was responsible for global CEO onboarding, VP and C-Suite development, and new-hire leadership development. Neil also served for four years as PM to the President and CEO where he was responsible for CEO meetings and communications. </p><p>Neil gives over 40 leadership keynote speeches a year at places like Coca-Cola, Disney, The Cleveland Clinic, McKinsey, and Shopify. His first TED talk <em>The 3 A’s of Awesome </em>is ranked one of the 10 Most Inspiring of all time and his second is called “How do you maximize your tiny, short life?”, an artistic side-project called the world’s first TED Listen, composed entirely of questions. Neil gave the most attended feature keynote at SXSW called “Building trust in distrustful times”. </p><p>Neil hosts the Apple “Best of” award-winning podcast 3 Books where he is on an ‘epic 22-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world.’ Each of the 333 chapters discuss the 3 most formative books of an inspiring person like Brené Brown, Nikki Giovanni, Malcolm Gladwell, or Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each chapter dropping on the exact minute of every single full moon up to April 26, 2040 at 10:37pm.</p><p>Neil shares his current writing at Neil.blog and in a series of free email newsletters read by over 250,000 people each month including his daily awesome thing, his bi-weekly blog posts, and his monthly Book Club. Neil’s pro bono work focuses on youth literacy and mental health. Neil has degrees from Queen’s University and Harvard Business School.</p><p>Neil lives with his love Leslie and their children in Toronto, Canada. </p>
Leadership Keynote Speaker, Best-selling Author, Positive-psychology Researcher
<ul><li><strong>Happiness–“The Happiness Equation”</strong></li><li> 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. Based on Neil’s #1 international bestseller ‘The Happiness Equation’.</li><li><strong>Leadership–“Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others”</strong></li><li> 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.</li><li><strong>Change–“Change Your Habits, Change Your Life”</strong></li><li>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 times to genuinely help 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.</li><li><strong>Growth–“The Science Of A Positive Growth Mindset”</strong></li><li> 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.</li><li><strong>Resilience–“The Resilience Equation”</strong></li><li>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.</li><li><strong>Trust–“Building a Culture of Trust In Distrustful Times”</strong></li><li>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.</li></ul><p><br></p>