Mimi Nicklin is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of âSoftening The Edge,â the Founder of the worldâs widest reaching organisational empathy platform, Empathy Everywhere, and the top 5 rated podcast host of âMimi-YouYouâ show. She was nominated Malaysian Female Leader 2024, as well as a Top 45 Sri Lankan Leader in 2024. She is an organisational engagement consultant, Listening Coach, and the Chief Strategy Officer of global branding agency, ALBD. Her second book, The Connection Prescription, is out November 2024.
Mimi is a well-known Keynote Speaker, Contributor and Empathy Advocate for the global movement to balance humanism and capitalism in our workplaces.Â
She was recently broadcast live to 85 million people on the BBC and has been featured across all leading media reaching 5,900,000 views and over $16,000,000 in global PR.
âMimi not only rises to meet every challenge, she does so with strength, poise and unďŹinching kindness. She is the model for what a leader should be.â
- BRIGG BLOOMQUIST
âMimi Nicklin is what the world needs right nowâ
- Elana Afrika
Mimiâs Books
Mimiâs first book, Softening The Edge was the worldâs first book to fuse storytelling and corporate experience to highlight the 30 year global empathy deficit, and its tragic impact on our people and our workplaces. It instantly became a bestseller worldwide.
âSoftening The Edge bravely breaks the corporate conversation, about our worryingly low empathy levels, wide open.â
A sell-out in key markets, Softening The Edge takes inspiration from some of the worldâs most powerful opinion leaders â President Barack Obama, Jacinda Ardern, Oprah Winfrey â and creates a compelling case for a global organisational empathy intervention. This leadership book, embedded within the tumultuous true story of a business turnaround, is equal parts inspiration, business lesson and personal story.
Published by The DreamWork Collective.Â
"We need an intervention. Softening The Edge is exactly that."
Empathy at Work
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Launching in India in the Summer of 2024, Empathy At Work, is an edited and updated second edition of Mimi's bestseller Softening The Edge, created especially for India. Looking at the power of empathy as an organisational skillset to turn around the $8.8 Trillion loss in productivity world wide, Empathy At Work will inspire and challenge leaders in equal measure.Â
The Connection Prescription
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Mimi's second book to launch globally looks at empathy and belonging as the keys to longevity. In life, in business and in health. Unpacking unique concepts from the fields of leadership, business and relationships, this book is set to reframe the criticality of maintaining our human connections - and the true damage of our loneliness epidemic - forever. Launching in November 2024.
"Humans are wired to connect, and this connection drives our health, our careers and our marriages. Yet, we have allowed our Empathy Deficit to grow 48% over the last 3 decades. We are living in a human crisis, seeing our highest-ever levels of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, religious discrimination, whilst watching a mental health collapse unfold. 400,000 million people are depressed, the second biggest killer of our youth is suicide and 52% of people want to resign - is our social disconnection the issue? Find out in the Connection Prescription."
Published by Embassy Books
Listen to The MiMi YouYou Show
This podcast, now in Season 3, tells untold stories from unknown voices, in order to collectively drive up our empathy. This show doesnât talk about âempathyâ, it creates it. Growing at 800% monthly it is now Number 2 in Sri Lanka, Number 11 in UAE and top 20 in France and Germany.