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Laurie Cameron, author of The Mindful Day, founder and CEO of PurposeBlue, mindfulness teacher with Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, and a guest professor on Mindful Leadership at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and Wisdom Labs’ Co-Founder and CEO, ... Read more

Lori Schwanbeck, senior faculty member at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, curriculum contributor and facilitator at LinkedIn, Purpose Blue, Wisdom Labs, Mindfulness Rx and the Mindfulness Training Institute, and MA in psychology, and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft discuss compassion and kindness in the workplace and beyond. Lori shares her definition of compassion, ways to implement ... Read more

Description  Eve Ekman, PhD, emotion researcher, Director of Training at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and teacher/co creator of Cultivating Emotional Balance, and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft discuss the role of resilience in our lives and the workplace. Eve shares how emotional availability positively affects our interpretation of daily stressors, the ingredients of overcoming ... Read more

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM, the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative, and Wisdom Labs’ Parneet Pal connect again to discuss wise nutrition. Dr. Katz offers his take on the “false magic” of ... Read more

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM, the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative, and Wisdom Labs’ Parneet Pal discuss eating well for longevity and vitality. Dr. Katz dispels myths about fad diets and offers ... Read more

Raman Frey, the founder of Good People Dinners, a founding partner of The Bureau, and writing contributor to the Harvard Business review and Medium, and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft discuss being nicer at work, and how processes, procedures, and choices that you make deeply impact your company’s culture. Raman speaks about coding for integrity using ... Read more

Mark Coleman, a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock, founder of The Mindfulness institute, author, and MA in Clinical Psychology, and Wisdom Labs’ Cory Smith discuss the ways that mindfulness can improve your work life. Mark shares his experience as a pioneer in the mindful workplace movement, easy and practical tips for bringing mindfulness into ... Read more

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Ph.D., the Science Director at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a leading expert on the neuroscience and psychology of compassion, kindness, gratitude, and other “pro-social” skills, and Wisdom Labs’ Chief Science Officer, Parneet Pal discuss purpose, passion, engagement, and kindness in the workplace. Emiliana shares her insight and specific practices to ... Read more

In This Episode Scott Shute, former VP of global customer operations and current head of mindfulness and compassion programs at LinkedIn, and Cory Smith, co-founder and CEO of Wisdom Labs, discuss bringing compassion and mindfulness programs to the workplace. Scott tells the story of being introduced to meditation as a teen, his passion for sharing ... Read more

In This Episode Neuroscientist, Emiliana Simon Thomas, the science director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC, Berkeley., and edX “Science of Happiness” course instructor, and Wisdom Labs’ Parneet Pal discuss happiness in the workplace. Emiliana shares tools to design a workday for optimizing happiness, the difference between moments of positive emotion and overall ... Read more