Mimi Nicklin is the multi award-winning and internationally bestselling author of âSoftening The Edgeâ and 'Empathy at Work', and Founder of the worldâs widest-reaching empathy training & engagement platform, Empathy Everywhere. A top 5-rated podcast host of her show, âMimiYouYouâ, she is omnipresent in the media including recently appearing live on the BBC to 85 million people. She is an experienced executive coach, and a well-known thought leader advocating for the global movement to create more empathy in the world. She trained over 16,500+ professionals in Fortune 500 organisations globally and has recently been awarded Malaysian Female Leader 2024 and Top 45 Sri Lankan Leader 2024. Mimi specialises in Listening-Led Leadership, Multi Generational Engagement, Psychological Safety and D&I.
She has has been featured across all leading media reaching 5,900,000 views and over $16,000,000 in global PR in just two years. Empathy is rising, so is Mimi.
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 is what the world needs right nowâ
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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. 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. Published by The DreamWork Collective.Â
âSoftening The Edge & Empathy At Work are books that bravely break the corporate conversation, about our worryingly low empathy levels, wide open.â
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Softening The Edge
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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. 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. Published by The DreamWork Collective.Â
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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 2025.
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Empathy at Work
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Brand new and now available in India, Empathy At Work, is an edited and updated second edition of Mimi's bestseller Softening The Edge, created especially for the Indian business context. 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 Indian leaders in equal measure. Published by Embassy Books.
Buy It HereImprove Your Empathy. Tune Into Mimi's Podcast: 'MimiYouYou'Â
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.