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Brief bio of Nic

Statistician, speaker and author Nic Marks helps organisations build happier, more successful teams. His TED talk on the Happy Planet Index has been watched over 2.8 million times, and his latest book on workplace wellbeing is called Happiness is a Serious Business.

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Nic Marks is a statistician, speaker and author who pioneered workplace wellbeing. He founded the Centre for Wellbeing at NEF, creating the Happy Planet Index and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. Today, through Friday Pulse and his new book Happiness is a Serious Business, he shows why happy teams perform better.

100 word bio

Nic Marks is a statistician, speaker and author who pioneered the field of workplace wellbeing. After reading Mathematics at Cambridge, he trained in organisational change and psychotherapy before founding the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation. There, he created influential frameworks including the Happy Planet Index and the Five Ways to Wellbeing.

A sought-after international speaker, his TED talk has been watched over 2.8 million times, and his TEDBook A Happiness Manifesto helped put measuring national wellbeing on the global agenda. He has been named a Top Ten Thinker by Directors Magazine and Forbes' No.1 idea of the year. Today, as founder of Friday Pulse, he helps organisations improve team happiness through science-led feedback. His latest book, Happiness is a Serious Business, shows why happy teams perform better.

Full bio

Nic Marks is a statistician, speaker and author who pioneered the field of workplace wellbeing. He read Mathematics at Cambridge before training in organisational change and psychotherapy. He went on to found the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation, where he created influential frameworks including the Happy Planet Index and the Five Ways to Wellbeing.

A sought-after international speaker, his TED talk has been watched over 2.8 million times, and his TEDBook A Happiness Manifesto helped put measuring national wellbeing on the global agenda. He presented the Happy Planet Index findings at TED in 2010, and his work has since been called “state of the art wellbeing measurement” by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Today, as founder of Friday Pulse, he helps organisations measure and improve team happiness through science-led feedback.

His new book, Happiness is a Serious Business, shows why happy teams perform better—and how leaders can create the conditions for people and organisations to thrive.

Nic has taken the stage at TED and worked with organisations from Coca-Cola, TikTok and Unilever to the NHS, UNICEF and the University of Oxford.