Neil Pasricha | New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and Two-Minute Mornings

Neil Pasricha

New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and Two-Minute Mornings

Neil Pasricha
Biography

Neil is the New York Times bestselling author of 10 books and journals including The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, and The Book of Awesome. His books have been published in dozens of languages, spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, and sold over two million copies. His first book The Book of Awesome was based on his blog, 1000 Awesome Things, which scored over 100 million hits and twice won the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences’ award for “Best Blog in the World”. Neil has degrees from Queen’s University and Harvard Business School and spent a decade as Director of Leadership at Walmart. As a speaker, Neil has delivered one of the “Ten Most Inspiring” TED Talks of all time and his work has been featured by CNN, BBC, Mel Robbins, and Oprah Winfrey.

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Featured Keynote Programs

Happiness
The Happiness Equation

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’.

Takeaways:
 – Research-based tools that help cultivate a more positive mindset
 – The ability to identity morning and evening routines that drain energy—and swap them for ones that build it
 – A simple gratitude practice to raise productivity (31%), promotability (40%), and closer work relationships (48%)
 

 

Leadership
Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others

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.

Takeaways:
 – A simple and actionable model to lead yourself so you can show up for others
 – Tools to focus your energy and increase clarity of mind
 – A renewed sense of leadership confidence and purpose
 

Change
Change Your Habits, Change Your Life

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.

Takeaways:
 – Research-backed habits for navigating company or functional changes with confidence
 – Learn why action creates motivation when facing setbacks, not the other way around
 – A mindset shift that makes change less chaotic and more constructive
 – A set of simple behaviors to lead others through what’s next — even when what’s next isn’t known
 

Growth
The Science Of A 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.

Takeaways:
 – A simple framework to re-engage with work that matters
 – 3 simple tools to shift mindset from “autopilot” to “intention”
 – Learn to see role challenges as an opportunity to unlock full personal potential
 

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Featured Books

You Are Awesomeby Neil Pasricha

You Are Awesome

by Neil Pasricha

From Neil Pasricha—New York Times, million-copy bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series and The Happiness Equation, thought leader for the next generation, and one of the most popular TED speakers in the world—comes a revelatory and inspiring book that will change the way we view failure and help us build resilience.

We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. We’re living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all!

But there’s just one side effect. We no longer have the tools to handle failure...or even perceived failure. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. When we spill, we splatter. When we crack, we shatter.

We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls.

A rude email from the boss means calling in sick. Only two likes on our post means we don’t have friends. Cell phones show us we’re never good enough. Yesterday’s butterflies are tomorrow’s panic attacks. Record numbers of students have clinical anxiety. And what about depression, loneliness, and suicide?

All rising!

What do we desperately need to learn?

RESILIENCE. And we need to learn it fast.

The Happiness Equationby Neil Pasricha

The Happiness Equation

by Neil Pasricha
The #1 international bestseller from the author of You Are Awesome and The Book of Awesome that "reveals how all of us can live happier lives" (Gretchen Rubin).

What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times-bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life.

In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life.

Once you've unlocked Pasricha's 9 Secrets, you will understand counter intuitive concepts such as: Success Does Not Lead to Happiness, Never Take Advice, and Retirement Is a Broken Theory. You will learn and then master three brand-new fundamental life tests: the Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. You will know the difference between external goals and internal goals and how to make more money than a Harvard MBA (hint: it has nothing to do with your annual salary). You will discover that true wealth has nothing to do with money, multitasking is a myth, and the elimination of options leads to more choice.

The Happiness Equation
is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything--your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.

Two Minute Mornings: A Journalby Neil Pasricha

Two Minute Mornings: A Journal

by Neil Pasricha

The choices made in the morning can have a huge impact all day long. The creator of the bestselling Book of Awesome and Journal of Awesome encourages users to "win the day" in just a few minutes each morning. The simple, quick prompts—focusing on gratitude, letting go of stress, and setting daily intentions—are proven to increase happiness and set readers up for success every day.

The Book of Awesomeby Neil Pasricha

The Book of Awesome

by Neil Pasricha
Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments.

Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it's tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us, like:

- Popping Bubble Wrap
- Wearing underwear just out of the dryer
- Fixing electronics by smacking them
- Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding
- Watching The Price Is Right when you're home sick
- Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
- Waking up and realizing it's Saturday

The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right). With laugh-out-loud observations from award-winning comedy writer Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome is filled with smile-inducing moments on every page that make you feel like a kid looking at the world for the first time. Read it and you'll remember all the things there are to feel good about.

A New York Times Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller - Globe and Mail Bestseller - Toronto Star Bestseller - Vancouver Sun Bestseller - Macleans Bestseller - Winner of the Forest of Reading Award

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Featured Articles & Resources

I Have Written 10 Books on Happiness: The Simple, 2-Minute Habit I Do Every Day to Feel Happier

Growing up, I felt anxious and overwhelmed. My career path is one that I never could have expected when I was that constantly worried kid.  Today, I’ve written 10 books and...
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If You Use Any of These 6 Phrases Every Day, You're 'Genuinely Happier' Than Most

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