In 2014, after the heartbreaking loss of his son, Ali, Mo began sharing his insights through his bestselling book Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. His mission, #OneBillionHappy, aims to inspire one billion people to embrace happiness, honoring his son by spreading the message that joy can be learned, shared, and passed on.

Mo launched his podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, in 2020, which quickly became a top-charting series. Each episode features in-depth conversations exploring life’s big questions about purpose and happiness.

Mo Gawdat Books

In 2021, Mo released Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World. The book outlines how humanity can adapt to and coexist with AI, which is on track to outsmart humans by billions of times. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2023, Mo has been recognised for his early warnings about AI’s unregulated growth and has become one of the leading voices in the field.

The following year, in 2022, he published That Little Voice in Your Head: Adjust the Code That Runs Your Brain. This book serves as a guide to understanding and optimising the brain’s internal programming for a happier and more productive life.

In 2024, Mo, alongside co-author Alice Law, released Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living, which became a #1 bestseller on Amazon. The book also inspired a growing community of people committed to eliminating unhealthy stress from their lives.

In 2025, Mo began working on Alive: Conversations About Life When Technology Becomes Sentient, a collaborative project with his Substack community. This upcoming book explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence on human existence and challenges our understanding of what it truly means to be alive.

Mo Gawdat Current Speaking Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Business
Mo is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X (‘the moonshot factory’), the current Chief AI Officer of Flight Story, and the author of bestseller Scary Smart, one of the earliest books written on the dangers of unregulated AI and how we can fight back. It was named one of the Times & Sunday Times best business books of 2021.

Happiness and Resilience at Home and at Work
After the loss of his son Ali, Mo dedicated his life to creating a reproducible equation for happiness. The results are presented in his bestselling books Solve for Happy and That Little Voice in Your Head. Along with his books and videos, Mo speaks on his findings to millions via his podcast appearances and speaking engagements with the unrelenting goal of making One Billion Happy, all in Ali’s honor.

Eliminating Stress at Home and at Work
Mo is the host of one of the top mental health podcasts in the world, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat and has conversed with hundreds of the wisest people on the planet. He is also the co-author of Unstressable, a #1 Amazon bestselling book with an accompanying online community created to eliminate and prevent stress from the lives of individuals and employees for good.

Pivoting in the Face of a Crisis

How do we stay happy in the face of adversity? Borne out of his own experiences, Mo shares his secrets for finding silver linings, the predictable equation that happiness follows and how to turn this into practical actions.

Mo Gawdat | Past speaking clients

Unilever, Trustpilot, Mastercard, Government Of Abu Dhabi, Arla, Kearney, Apple, Intuit, Adobe, Evbox, Arm, DLA Piper, Credit Suisse, The Next Web, Gamesys, Nordic Business Forum, Meta, Visa, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Wolters Kluwer, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Coca-Cola, Transperfect, Barclays, Deloitte, Saudi Aramco, PwC, PGIM, P&G, Cisco, Rituals, Paddle, Accenture, EY, Novartis, Transport For London, YPO, Bol.com, DubAI RTA, XEROX,

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