Neil Pasricha is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation, the Book of Awesome , and the Journal of Awesome . He's a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and founder of the Institute for Global Happiness. He has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders-creating global programs inside the world's largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son.