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Nic Marks

Nic Marks is the founder of Happiness Works, an organisation that changes the world of work for the better through online tools and services. He is a fellow of NEF (the new economics foundation) in London where he founded the award-winning centre for well-being, and is on the board for Action for Happiness.

Marks is perhaps best known for his trailblazing work on the Happy Planet Index,iii National Accounts of Well-being,iv and the Five Ways to Well-beingv which is used extensively within health and education institutions as well as within governmental policy.

Author of one of the three original TEDBooks, A Happiness Manifesto,vi he was voted one of the Top 10 original thinkers in 2011 by Director Magazine and listed on  Forbes 7 Most Powerful Ideasvii in 2011. Marks has also been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal,viii The Guardian,ix,x,xi The Independent,xii Wired,xiii,xiv and The Huffington Post.xv A ‘statistician with soul’, Marks’s work has led to him being invited to speak, train and host workshops at conferences and events around the world as well as closer to home in London. Notable highlights include his prestigious 2010 TEDGlobal talk in Oxford,xvi which has been viewed more than a million times. In it, he threads the business case for taking happiness and wellbeing seriously whilst enlightening organizations as diverse as the World Development Movement, the OECD and Coca-Cola.