Founded by Nic Marks

Nic was once described as a “Statistician with a Soul” because of his unusual combination of ‘hard’ statistical skills and ‘soft’ people skills, he draws on scientific evidence to show that everyone benefits when businesses take happiness seriously. Nic studied mathematics and applied statistics at Cambridge and Lancaster Universities. He later trained as a psychotherapist and a group facilitator.

Before starting the business that has become Friday Pulse, Nic worked at the London-based think-tank The New Economics Foundation, founding their Centre for Wellbeing in 2001. Nic and his team produced a stream of ground-breaking reports including the Happy Planet Index, Five Ways to Wellbeing and National Accounts of Wellbeing. In 2008 they were awarded the “Betterment of Humankind Award” from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies for their work on wellbeing in public policy.

In 2010 Nic was invited to speak at the prestigious TED global conference. His TED talk has now been watched nearly three million times. In 2011 his work was listed as Forbes Magazine’s Seven Most Powerful Ideas and he was called one of the Top Ten Original Thinkers by the UK’s Institute of Directors magazine.

As well as leading Friday Pulse Nic is an in-demand public speaker.  

Built by experts

Led by Nic Marks, the leading UK happiness expert and statistician, our design is backed by over 25 years of research and experience.

Friday Pulse’s simple intuitive design is the result of a deep understanding of the science of happiness and its practical application.