Mimi Nicklin Keynote Speaker

Mimi Nicklin is an experienced marketer, strategist and keynote speaker on empathy and human understanding. She believes that as a pro-social species, we work best when we work together and human understanding is at the core of all success.  Mimi is a strong advocate for the global movement to balance humanism and capitalism in our lives.

She is the author of ‘Softening the Edge: Empathy: How humanity’s oldest leadership trait is changing our world’ (2020), a bestselling book in the USA, Canada, Australia and the UAE which examines how empathy and connection are this decade’s most valuable skillset.

She founded Empathy Everywhere, the world’s first organisational empathy platform.  With its corporate and community empathy training and the Empathy for The Future’ Youth platform, it aims to change the mindset of businesses across the world.

Mimi is the CEO of Freedm, a global ad agency which capitalises on the knowledge economy and proves that hybrid, remote working drives creativity and results, by removing barriers of bias and offering freedom, empowerment and access to creative minds and clients.

Mimi is an expert in connection and mutual human understanding. She works closely with organisations with the aim to fill the empathy gap and rebuild societies and businesses worldwide. She has over 16 years’ experience in marketing communications, working across 25+ markets with multinational and Fortune 500 clients.

She hosts The Empathy for Breakfast Show podcast which reaches 85,000+ people and was voted top 5 podcasts in the UAE. The show examines the empathy gap worldwide with thought-leaders from multiple industries and discusses the future of connectivity, leadership, mental health and our world.  She recently launched second podcast, Mimi-YouYou.

Mimi is a popular speaker for many organisations across the world. She speaks with passion and authenticity about the importance of empathy and human understanding in business leaders, as the antidote to the burnout, loneliness and anxiety facing the modern workforce.  She is a charismatic speaker with an infectious stage presence and leaves audiences feeling inspired to approach the world and everyone in it with greater empathy.