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SHORT VERISON
Shasta Nelson is a friendship expert, keynote speaker, and the author of four books on the science of friendship. A two-time TEDx speaker with nearly 1 million views, she has delivered 500+ keynotes for organizations including Google, Walmart, LinkedIn, and Chick-fil-A. As Chief Friendship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Connection, she leads national strategies for reversing the decline of social connection and trust. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and Forbes. She believes the data is clear: relationships are everything.
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LONG VERISON
Shasta Nelson is a friendship expert, keynote speaker, and the author of four books on the science of friendship who helps organizations build the workplace connection and belonging that drive trust, retention, and performance.
For more than 15 years, Shasta has translated the science of friendship into frameworks that work in the real world — for adults trying to build deeper friendships, and for organizations trying to build cultures where people actually stay. Her signature framework, the Frientimacy Triangle, identifies the three requirements every healthy relationship needs: Positivity, Consistency, and Vulnerability. It’s the kind of research that makes you immediately think of three people you need to call.
A two-time TEDx speaker with nearly 1 million views, Shasta has delivered 500+ keynotes for organizations including Google, Walmart, LinkedIn, and Chick-fil-A, across healthcare, tech, finance, nonprofits, and education. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME, Forbes, and on The Today Show and The Steve Harvey Show.
Her four books — Friendships Don’t Just Happen, Frientimacy, The Business of Friendship, and her forthcoming fourth book on the 6 relationships we all need — span the full arc of how friendship is built: from first connections to deep belonging, from personal life to workplace culture.
As Chief Friendship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Connection — yes, that’s a real title, and yes, she’s as committed to it as it sounds — Shasta leads national strategies for reversing the decline of social connection and trust across America.
She lives in Grass Valley, California, with her husband Greg, and believes with her whole heart that your future best friend is already in the room. You just haven’t invited them to lunch yet.
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GENERAL
For associations, women’s conferences, health & well-being, community events, faith-based)
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Get ready for a keynote that’s going to feel less like a lecture — and more like a really good conversation with a friend who also happens to have done all the research.
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Our speaker today is a friendship expert, keynote speaker, and the author of four books on the science of friendship. Her TEDx talks have been viewed nearly one million times. She has spoken on stages for Google, Walmart, LinkedIn, and hundreds of other organizations. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME, Forbes, and on The Today Show.
But here’s what makes her truly unforgettable: she takes the science of how friendships are actually built — the real research, the real data — and makes it so practical and so warm that you’ll leave today knowing exactly what to do differently. With your friends, your family, your neighbors, and the strangers who are about to become something more.
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She is also the Chief Friendship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Connection — yes, that’s a real title — where she leads national efforts to reverse the loneliness epidemic one relationship at a time.
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Please join me in welcoming friendship expert, author, and keynote speaker — Shasta Nelson!
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CORPORATE & WORKPLACE
(For HR conferences, leadership summits, corporate all-hands, workplace associations)
Get ready for a keynote that is going to change the way you think about the most important driver of performance, retention, and culture — and it’s not what you think.
Our speaker today is a friendship expert, keynote speaker, and the author of four books on the science of friendship who has spent more than 15 years helping organizations build the workplace connection and belonging that actually make people stay. She has delivered 500+ keynotes for organizations including Google, Walmart, LinkedIn, and Chick-fil-A — and she has the research, the frameworks, and the stories to prove that every business problem is a relationship problem.
Her TEDx talks have been viewed nearly one million times. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and Forbes. And as Chief Friendship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Connection, she is leading national strategies for reversing the decline of social trust — starting with your workplace.
Fair warning: you will leave today thinking differently about the people sitting next to you — and that is entirely the point.
Please join me in welcoming friendship expert, keynote speaker, and author — Shasta Nelson!
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PODCAST INTERVIEWS
Welcome back — I have a guest today who I have genuinely been looking forward to this conversation with, because she has spent more than 15 years researching something we all think we understand and almost none of us do as well as we think: friendship.
Shasta Nelson is a friendship expert, keynote speaker, and the author of four books on the science of friendship — including Frientimacy and The Business of Friendship. She’s a two-time TEDx speaker with nearly one million views, her work has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to Harvard Business Review to The Today Show, and she is the Chief Friendship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Connection, which is exactly as important a title as it sounds.
What I love about Shasta’s work is that she doesn’t just tell you friendship matters — she tells you exactly how it works. The science, the framework, the specific things most of us are doing wrong and the surprisingly simple things we can do differently starting today.
Shasta, welcome to the show — I’m so glad you’re here.
