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Shasta Nelson

Shasta Nelson is a keynote speaker, author, and leading expert on friendship and healthy relationships at work.

Whether she’s speaking at conferences or on TEDx stages, giving media interviews to outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, appearing as a guest on The Harvard Business Review podcast or The Steve Harvey Show, or consulting with visionary leaders, technology pioneers, or HR directors, she is constantly teaching all of us how to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in our lives.

Filled with scientific data, real-world research, and fascinating case studies, she brings science to life in such a practical way that we all not only want to get along better, but also that we know how-to. Few of us have ever been trained in the one skill that is most necessary in our world today: relationship building. We are collectively lonely and the way we’re currently doing our lives isn’t leading to greater connection. Our workplaces have the unique opportunity to better connect our people not only for their individual happiness and wellbeing, but because our ability to collaborate is directly correlated to our bottom line and organizational success.

Shasta’s research and wisdom can be found in her three books: The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of the Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time (HarperCollins Leadership, 2020) which teaches us how to improve our work satisfaction through better relationship, Friendships Don’t Just Happen! which teaches us how to make new friends as adults, and Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness which teaches us how to make our closer relationships more meaningful and healthy.

Shasta was selected by Facebook to be their media spokesperson and friendship expert for Friends Day 2018.

Her Three Relationship Requirements have been featured in her popular TEDx talk and are widely praised for helping break down relationships in ways everyone understands.

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