Keynote | Dr. Amishi Jha

Dr. Amishi Jha, PhD is Director of Contemplative Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami. Prior to her current post, she was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.S in Biological Psychology from the University of Michigan, her Ph.D in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from the University of California–Davis, and her post-doctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University in functional neuroimaging. With grants from the Department of Defense and several private foundations, she leads research on the neural bases of attention and the effects of mindfulness-based training programs on cognition, emotion, resilience, and performance in education, corporate, elite sports, first-responder, and military contexts.

In her laboratory at the University of Miami, she uses functional MRI, electrophysiological recordings and behavioral techniques to understand why our attention sometimes fails us, and if it can be trained for greater focus and less distractibility. She launched the first-ever study to offer mindfulness training tools to active-duty military service members as they prepared for deployment. What she has discovered is that without intervention, attention is compromised, and attentional lapses increase. Yet, with mindfulness training, attention can be strengthened and protected.

In addition to her own published body of research, her work has been featured at TED, NATO, the World Economic Forum, the Pentagon, and the UK Parliament. She has received coverage in The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, Mindful Magazine, NPR, and more. In addition, she has been interviewed by Joe Rogan, Brene Brown, Russell Brand, Deepak Chopra, Duncan Trussell, Dan Harris, Sharon Salzberg, and many others. In her national bestseller, Peak Mind (Harper Collins), she shares her discoveries on how attention can be trained for optimal performance and well-being. You can find Dr. Jha at http://amishi.com.

SIY Global's Product Roadmap | Ryan Heinl

Ryan Heinl | Ryan is SIY Global's Head of Product and is an award winning B2B EdTech product innovation and management executive who takes products from concept to market in a 0 to 1 fashion.  Having worked for one of the leading global leadership development firms for more than a decade, Ryan has the unique ability to bring together market strategy, innovative product solutions, and drive execution of business outcomes.  Having worked with admired global companies in a range of different industry sectors, Ryan understands the challenges that complex organizations face and is able to translate these challenges into training and development solutions that have measurable impact.

Virtual Keynote and Q&A | Dr. Daniel Goleman 

Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. As a science journalist Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on  topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis.

The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence— which discounts IQ as the sole measure of one’s abilities — “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea” and chose his article “What Makes a Leader” as one of ten “must-read” articles from its pages. Emotional Intelligence was named one of the 25 “Most Influential Business Management Books” by TIME Magazine. The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Accenture Insititute for Strategic Change have listed Goleman among the most influential business thinkers.

Goleman is a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (www.casel.org), originally at the Yale Child Studies Center and now at the University of Illinois at Chicago. CASEL’s mission centers on bringing evidence-based programs in emotional literacy to schools worldwide.

He currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (www.eiconsortium.org) at Rutgers University. The consortium fosters research partnerships between academic scholars and practitioners on the role emotional intelligence plays in excellence.

Goleman is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute, which fosters dialogues and research collaborations among contemplative practitioners and scientists. Goleman has organized a series of intensive conversations between the Dalai Lama and scientists, which resulted in the books Healthy Emotions, and Destructive Emotions. He is currently editing a book from the most recent dialogue on ecology, interdependence, and ethics.

Goleman’s work as a science journalist has been recognized with many awards, including the Washburn Award for science journalism, a Lifetime Career Award from the American Psychological Association, and he was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his communicating science to the general public.

Expert Panel on Scaling Organizational Emotional Intelligence | Ralf Haacke & Peter Bostelmann

Ralf Haacke works at Procter & Gamble as a Director in P&G’s Global Business Services (GBS). Ralf has established, piloted and now leads P&G’s global “Improve YOUR Life” program, which is a personal leadership development program based on the “Search Inside Yourself” program developed at Google. Previously at P&G, Ralf held various regional and ultimately global service and project management roles, including governance and relationship management responsibilities for strategic global external partners. In his personal life, he enjoys taking RV trips around Europe with his daughters and his spouse, and his biggest personal passion is exploring mindfulness and its multitude of benefits in day-to-day applications.

Peter Bostelmann is Chief Mindfulness Officer and founder of SAP's Global Mindfulness Practice. Under his leadership mindfulness-based training's and support structures for lasting cultural change have been piloted, refined, and are being offered to all SAP employees globally. Peter initiated the foundation for the lasting success of this practice by building a passionate community of teachers and ambassadors. Peter is an Integral Leadership Coach and trained as an Industrial Engineer. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in international business to his current efforts in bringing mindfulness programs to scale at global organizations.

SIY Certified Teacher Exclusive Sessions | Rich Fernandez, Alexie Dossa, Anuka Gazara-Anthony

During part of the afternoon on July 21, we will host a few sessions specifically for our Search Inside Yourself Certified Teacher community. 

Your speakers include:

Rich Fernandez | Rich is the CEO of SIY Global. He was previously the director of executive education and people development at Google, where he was also one of the first SIY teachers. Rich previously founded Wisdom Labs and has also served in senior roles at eBay, J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. He received his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review.

 

Alexie Dossa | Alexie is a dynamic business executive with 20 years of experience enabling customer senior executives to accelerate meeting their strategic needs and challenges through SaaS sales, marketing, and professional services. This includes use cases in the areas of agile and digital transformations, employee engagement, and building a culture of innovation with industry-leading global corporate brands. He spends much of his free time running and hiking the trails on Mt. Tamalpais, practicing and teaching yoga, and practicing mindfulness and mediation. Alexie has 15+ years practicing mindfulness in the business environment and loves to teach the celebrated SIY program.

Anuka Gazara-Anthony | Anuka is SIY Global's teacher community manager. Anuka applies her unique combination of business and mindfulness skills to her work as a mindfulness-based leadership coach. She mentors’ executives, entrepreneurs and individuals in becoming confident mindful and effective leaders.For over 10 years Anuka worked in Human Resources, Program Management and Executive Officer roles supporting and advising executives in government and international organizations.Across these roles she has worked in different countries both in Europe and Africa and these experiences has shown her how strategy, culture and the human connection can influence and impact how leaders can work with their employees with more effective leadership but also have a positive influence  on the lives of so many people from their conference tables to their dining tables.As a long-term practioner of mindfulness and various forms of meditation,  Anuka is committed to strengthening the effectiveness of individuals, executive teams, business groups and boards of directors using mindfulness-based leadership and emotional intelligence coaching. She holds a BA from the University of Queen Mary ( University of London) a Masters degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a postgraduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oxford.

 

 

 

 

Caitlin Stull (she/her) is the Manager of Teacher Training & Development at SIY Global where she passionately supports SIY teachers to transform their workplaces from the inside out. Having partnered with some of SIYG’s most influential clients, she has seen first-hand the impact human-centered skills can have in enabling teams and organizations to flourish. Her work is sustained by a 15-year mindfulness practice that inspires her to continue turning towards the great opportunities and difficulties employees and workplaces face at this time. A social worker by training, Caitlin is fascinated by how culture and identity shape organizations. Before joining SIYG, she worked in Turkey, Australia & Rwanda with organizations including NATO, UNICEF and Amnesty International. When not working with SIYG, she offers nature-based therapy for under-resourced communities and is completing a Masters in Clinical Social Work. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains where you'll find her hiking with her dog Bodhi, building a community of mindfulness practitioners and learning earth-based skills for sustainable living.

Vasco Gaspar works in the fields of Awareness-Based Human Flourishing and Conscious Leadership, inspiring change and transformation worldwide for a more human and compassionate world. Certified in a wide range of awareness-based technologies (e.g. Mindfulness, Presencing, Heartfulness, SPT, IFS, Polyvagal Theory and Compassionate Inquiry) and trained directly by some of the world’s greatest though leaders in these fields, he has been working with individuals, teams and organizations all over the world, reaching more than 30.000 people in the last decade. Works closely with different global NGO's like the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, the Heartfulness Institute and the Presencing Institute. What drives him is his love for nature and beauty, being a positive activist for the protection of the planet through an action driven by (higher) Self energy. Spends most of his time traveling or in Silence, exploring the mysteries of the inner and outer worlds.

You can register for day 3 only by selecting the ticket "1-Day Retreat" at checkout.

You can register as a certified teacher for the 2-day summit by selecting the "Certified Teacher Summit" ticket option. 

You may request a 100% refund until April 1st 2023 by 11:59 PM PST. You may request a 50% refund from April 2nd, 2023 until June 1st, 2023 by 11:59 PM PST. Tickets are non-refundable after June 1st, 2023.

We are following the country-specific guidelines.  Additionally, if you feel sick or have any COVID-19 symptoms, please do not plan to attend the event.