About

Neil Pasricha thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living.

All his current work focuses on themes of gratitude, happiness, failure, resilience, connection, and trust. 

Neil is the the author of 10 books and journals including: The Happiness Equation, a nine-step research based guidebook to living a happy life, The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things, Awesome Is Everywhere, an interactive introduction to guided meditation for children, Two-Minute Mornings, a simple habit-based morning practice to begin your day with positivity, 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 2,000,000 copies across dozens of languages.

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.   

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 “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 called “Building trust in distrustful times”. 

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.

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.

Neil lives with his love Leslie and their children in Toronto, Canada.

Updated: April, 2026