5 things you may not know about me: I was an internationally ranked tennis player. My under-14 high jump record still stands at my alma mater. I sailed 2,500 miles up the Amazon and 2,500 miles down the Amazon – on a 36 ft sailboat. I am afraid of heights. I hate movies and books with bad endings – which [...]

Nic Marks founded nef‘s award-winning Centre for Well-being and has led the well-being programme at nef since 2001. Nic is a recognised expert in the field of well-being research and undertakes innovative research in the use of well-being indicators in public policy environments. Nic has expertise in relation to individual, social, economic and environmental indicators [...]

Author of Delivering Happiness CEO of Zappos.com In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos.com as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped Zappos.com grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion [...]