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Lord Mark Price
Leading retail expert and author of Happy Economics and Work Happier
At a Glance
Leading retail keynote speaker
Former Managing Director of Waitrose, and the former Deputy Chair of the John Lewis Partnership
Minister of State for Trade and Investment
Appointed the Minister of State for Trade and Investment and made life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
Workplace Happiness Expert
Author of Work Happier (2025), Happy Economics (2024), and Founder and CEO of WorkL, a digital platform to help individuals unlock a happier working life
Former MD of Waitrose
Lord Mark Price is a leading retail keynote speaker and leadership speaker focusing on employee engagement. He has spent over forty years unlocking the power of people in organisations and is on a mission to help individuals feel happy at work.
He is the former Managing Director of Waitrose, and the former Deputy Chair of the John Lewis Partnership and was appointed the Minister of State for Trade and Investment by Prime Minister David Cameron. He was made a life Peer and sits in the UK House of Lords.
Workplace Happiness Expert
Mark is the founder and CEO of WorkL, a digital platform helping individuals unlock a happier working life. WorkL collects data and insight on the Sunday Times ‘Best Places To Work’ list and helps users find the perfect job, along with lots of tools and services to help people excel in their careers.
He served as the Chair of The Fair Trade Foundation, NED of Coca-Cola, Chair of Business in the Community and Former President of the Charted Management Institute.
Mark is the author of Happy Economics (2024), Six Steps to Engaged Employees (2019), Fairness for all (2017) and Workplace Fables (2017). His latest book Work Happier: How To Be Happy & Successful At Work argues that workplace wellbeing shouldn’t be a perk – it should be a right. It offers a practical, compelling framework for transforming how we think about, and act on, happiness at work.
Author of Happy Economics
Happiness at work matters. But what does happiness mean? How can managers measure it and create more of it? And what happens to organizations when they get happiness right?
In Happy Economics, author Mark Price clearly demonstrates the business opportunity behind investing in our happiness. Using anecdotes from his 40+ years in corporate leadership roles – including serving as the former MD of Waitrose and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership – as well as real-world examples of organisations who have got it right, this book explains the economic, cultural and societal benefits of happiness, and instructs leaders on how to build happy organisations, recruit happy employees, and drive growth with an engagement plan that can be implemented by any business.
Keynote Topics
Mark is an experienced and engaging speaker who is available for keynotes, interviews and expert comment on topics including:
10 workplace rights and responsibilities everyone should know
Why you’re unhappy at work and what to do about it
The real workplace revolution isn’t AI - it’s human happiness
Seven tips on disagreeing respectfully with colleague
Forget annual reviews: daily recognition is the real game-changer
How and why workplace happiness will drive productivity
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