The Team
Great People with a Shared Mission
Staff and Volunteers
We’re building community, facilitating research, organizing resources, and designing educational programs for our members and the enterprise
Operating
Organizing
Education
The staff and volunteers who guide our membership, research, and educational programs, and manage our day-to-day operations.
The founding advisory board of human capital and operating leaders, who embraced our vision for organizational mindfulness, and helped us form and launch IOSM.
Responsible for designing the all-science curriculum and certification programs for performance-focused, organizational mindfulness.
Advising our efforts to raise awareness, design the blueprint, and define best practices for implementing effective enterprise mindfulness programs.
Focusing on determining the measures, metrics, and analytics for assessing the impact of mindfulness on individual and organizational performance, and on business and financial results.
Monitors new developments in neuroscience, psychology, biology, and medicine, maps their application to organizational effectiveness, guides our original research projects, and makes sure our curriculum and messaging are based on the most current science.
Implementation
Metrics
Research
Operating Committee
Michael Foster
Founder, former Chair and CEO at Human Capital Institute, Capture Wines, ADP-AIRS and TRW-Residential Research
Asa Fanelli
Founder and Chief Strategist at IdeaLift Group, former CEO and President of Horizons for Homeless Children
Marie Szutz
Executive Coach and Consultant at Marie Szuts Coaching and Consulting
Lemuel Watson
Dean and faculty at Indiana University, Universities of South Carolina, Northern Illinois, Clemson, and Heartland
Robyn Beckman
Mindfulness Teacher, former business applications and system analyst in IT, software and healthcare
Organizing Committee
Walter McFarland
Former Chairman at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) and Founder at Windmill Human Performance
Magda Mook
CEO and Executive Director at International Coach Federation (ICF)
Michelle Maldonado
Founder and CEO at Lucenscia, SIYLI-certified mindfulness teacher and expert in human potential and transformation
Dr. Uzma Burki
Former Head and Deputy Director of Total Rewards and Global Mobility at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Richard Greene
Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Management Committee at Heidrick & Struggles
Michele Freeman
Chief of the Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, with over 25 years serving in law enforcement and corrections
Fleet Maull
Author, mindfulness teacher and founder of Prison Dharma Network, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety
Renee Kaspar
Chief People Officer at Octane Lending, and former VPHR at Thomson-Reuters, E-Bay, Amazon and Fidelity
Matthew Bellows
Founder, Chairman and past CEO of Yesware and a certified instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition since 2004
Tatyana Sanikovich
Director of Human Resources at Esalen, and featured contributor to Generation Creative.com
Education Committee
Stefanie Franke
Neuroscience researcher, clinician and author of Super Regulators: Self-Regulation and a New Type of Human.
Dr. Valeria Galetto
Founding Director at Samma Sati, MBSR teacher at University of California, San Francisco and Universidad de Belgrano.
Eric Fridman
Leadership Coach and Team Facilitator at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Bridgette Morehouse
Founder at LeadHuman, former Chief Learning
Officer at Ford Motor Company
Enterprise Implementation
Cherie Woodbury
Co-founder, Circular learning
Project, former VP Enterprise
Training and Staff Development
at Robert Half
Alma Apodaca
SVP Human Resources Business Partner at City National Bank
Brian Ruffner
Vice President, Global Services, Global Content Networks at Ciena
Shawnta Hooks
Vice President, Sales and Governance at Synchrony Financial - and Founder, CEO of Mindful Culture Creators and the Stillness Loop
Metrics Committee
Dr. Salvatore Falletta
Professor of Human Resources and Leadership at Drexel University and Founder at HR Intelligence.Org
Mike Dallas
Senior Vice President and
Global Head of Employee
Experience at Manulife
Paul Tsagaroulis
Head of Data Science and Analytics at SurePeople
Brian Deming
Human Resources at the Federal Reserve Board
Russel Klosk
Managing Director, Talent and Human/Organizational Potential at Accenture
Research Committee
Phil Dixon
Founder and CEO at Oxford Brain Institute and formerly Founder and CEO at Academy of Brain-Based Leadership
Tim Fish
Senior Director, Medical Information and Scientific Training at Alkermes
Tim Vagus
Professor at Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Ravi Kudesia
Assistant Professor of Management, Fox School of Business, Temple University
Dr. James Pann
Associate Professor, Researcher, and Director of MS in Forensic Psychology Program, Nova Southeastern University
"Helping people strengthen their physical, mental, and emotional fitness not only improves the quality of their personal health, happiness, and relationships but the quality of the contribution they make to the enterprise. As organizations increasingly compete on the basis of disruptive innovation, this becomes an essential human capital investment."
The Neuroscience of Business Performance, 2016