Neil Pasricha Speaking Fee: $30,000 to $50,000
Speaking Fee:
$30,000 to $50,000
Travels From:
YYZ - Toronto, Canada
Travels From:
YYZ - Toronto, Canada
Primary Topic Category:
Authors & Storytellers
Primary Topic Category:
Authors & Storytellers
Neil Pasricha Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Neil is the New York Times bestselling author of 10 books and journals which have sold millions of copies including The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, and The Book of Awesome.
After receiving his MBA from Harvard, Neil spent a decade as Director of Leadership inside Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue. He is one of the most popular TED speakers of all time and his work has been featured by CNN, BBC, and Oprah Winfrey.
Neil Pasricha thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living. His current work focuses under themes of gratitude, happiness, failure, resilience, connection, and trust.
Neil is the author of ten books and journals including: The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Happiness Equation, originally written as a 300-page love letter to his unborn son on how to live a happy life, Awesome Is Everywhere, an interactive introduction to guided meditation for children, Two-Minute Mornings, his simple daily morning practice, and You Are Awesome, a nine-step guide to building resilience told through stories and research. Neil’s books are New York Times and #1 international bestsellers, have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, and have sold over two million copies across dozens of languages.
Neil also gives over 50 speeches a year at places like Harvard, SXSW, and Shopify. His first TED talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” 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 2019 called “Building trust in distrustful times”.
Neil hosts an Apple “Best of” award-winning podcast called 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 discusses the 3 most formative books of an inspiring person like Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Kevin the Bookseller, Seth Godin, David Mitchell, Mark Manson, or Judy Blume. 3 Books is recorded live and in-person and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each chapter dropping on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon up to September 1, 2031 at 5:21 am. Neil shares his current writing on this blog and in a series of newsletters read by over 100,000 people.
Neil’s work focuses on literacy, bibliophilia, and mental health.
"The highest rated speaker at our event.” — BrandMinds
“Neil is an exquisite speaker who teaches us simple actions can make a meaningful difference in our happiness and that we have the power to step into a more powerful way of life. He is prepared, he is committed, he is kind, and he is changing the world one talk at a time. – Kathering Twells, SVP, The Coca-Cola Company
“Audiences love Neil! Neil and I do a ton of events together. And the other thing you're going to love about Neil? You're going to love working with him. Neil does the stuff most speakers won't do. He'll stay forever and talk to your attendees. He'll be a delight to work with. He's your guy. Book him!" — Mel Robbins
"Neil Pasricha was the highlight of the day. From my perspective, the highlight of the year at Microsoft! What a genuine, authentic, inspiring person. He connected with the audience and made our themes come to life in the best possible way. He arrived early and stayed late – talking to everyone and inspiring all of us.” – Rekha Rao-Mayya, National Technical Director, Microsoft
“We all LOVED Neil’s keynote and received amazing feedback from our clients. We tallied the results this morning and his presentation earned a 4.9/5!!” – Sonia Bell, Indeed
“Neil's session on 'The Subtle Art of Happiness' earned a top 4.96 out of 5.00 rating from our attendees. The most popular comments we heard were "This was my favorite session!", "Cannot wait to implement this!", "Great way to end!", and "Bring him back!"." – FHL Bank Topeka
"Neil spoke at our flagship ACE conference. He walked off the stage to a resounding standing ovation! We have done the Achievers ACE conference for nine years and have had four keynote speakers every year. Of the 36 keynote speakers only two have received standing ovations: Mel Robbins and Neil Pasricha!" – Vanessa Bangwyn, Chief Customer Officer, Achievers
“Your speech was SOOOO WONDERFUL! Everyone loved it and they are still talking about how great it was a month later!” — Julie Barake, Shopify
"Neil’s session was such a huge hit....it was energizing, inspiring, thought-provoking and really resonated with our employees. I've received so many emails from employees thanking me for bringing Neil in, saying how Neil was their favorite Speaker Series to date, and that they were inspired to make some real shifts in their life.” – Rachelle Diamond, LinkedIn Speaker Series
"Neil was the highlight of the show!" – Kim Carter, VP HR, Maple Leaf Sport and Entertainment, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC
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