Happiness Works: Nic Marks at TEDxWarwick 2014

Nic Marks is the founding director of Happiness Work, a company that focuses on science-based, responsive analytics to unlock new ways to happiness and productivity within the workplace. Marks is also a fellow of the UK think-tank, the new economics foundation (nef) and a board member of Action for Happiness.

He is best known for creating the award winning Happy Planet Index, the first global measure of sustainable wellbeing. His finding, that people in the wealthiest countries who consume an extremely large amount of the world's resources, do not come out on top in terms of well-being, raised questions as to the purpose of economic growth.

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