Creative Strategist by Training Bestselling Author and Top 5 Podcaster By Experience Empathy Advocate By Design

Mimi Nicklin is the internationally bestselling author of 'Softening The Edge', the Founder of the world’s widest reaching organisational empathy platform, www.EmpathyEverywhere.co, and the top 5 rated podcast host of 'Mimi-YouYou' show. She is also the Global Chief Strategic Officer and Creative Director of A Life By Design.

Mimi is an experienced brand strategist with experience in over 20 markets having worked across Asia, the Middle East and Africa with some of the worlds largest ad agencies for nearly two decades. A passionate Real Estate expert she has run real estate and hospitality focused branding businesses for over 8 years, and has won marketing and branding awards regionally for the last three years in a row. She is a sought after leadership thought leader and an advocate for the global movement to balance humanism and capitalism in our workplaces and brands. She has 60,000 followers and has trained 12,500+ students in Fortune 500 organisations, focusing on the future of transformational leadership and creative storytelling. An inclusive millennial leader, she passionately talks about listening as the road to higher performance, multigenerational team engagement, effective communication & conflict management.

She is a well-known and energetic figure in her industry and her ability to tell stories, sell ideas and create long-term loyal clients and teams, as well as being an accomplished writer, sees her widely covered by the global media including NBC News, BBC, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, Harper’s Bazaar, Tech Republic, and Vogue.