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Marc Lesser is a CEO, executive coach, and Zen teacher known for his engaging, experiential presentations that integrate mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices and training. He is the CEO of ZBA Associates, an executive development and leadership consulting company, with a client roster that includes Google, Twitter, Genentech, San Francisco Airport, Kaiser Permanente, Global Fund for Women, and Beneficial State Bank.

He founded and was CEO of three highly successful companies and has an MBA degree in business from New York University. Prior to his business and coaching career, he was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for ten years, and director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the Western world.

Marc helped develop the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself program within Google – a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders which teaches the art of integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and business savvy for creating great corporate cultures and a better world. Deeply rooted in science, the program has been taught to thousands of executives worldwide. Building on the success of the Search Inside Yourself program, Marc founded and served as CEO for 5 years of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, which offers programs, tools and content on mindfulness-based emotional intelligence, empathy, compassion, resilience, leadership with training programs in over 50 countries.

Marc’s books include Finding Clarity: How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives, Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, Know Yourself, Forget Yourself, Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration.

His work has been featured in Entrepreneur, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Mindful, and he has developed audio and video programs for Insight Timer, Simple Habit, and the Mindful Leadership Summit. Marc’s blog is syndicated to many major websites, including Medium, Thrive Global, and Mindful.org.

Marc’s podcast Zen Bones: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times features cutting-edge interviews, supportive tools for creating more meaningful work, and potent mindfulness practices to develop yourself, influence your organization, and change the world.

Marc’s Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader program is available as an online, on-demand course and as a live training. He has led mindfulness and emotional intelligence trainings in Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia, and throughout the United States, and has been a keynote speaker at Mindful Leadership Summits in Washington DC, Toronto, and Sydney. Learn more at www.marclesser.net.

Drawing from his expertise and key themes in Finding Clarity, Marc Lesser is available for interviews, articles, and commentary and can discuss:

1. The core benefits of finding greater clarity 
2. The benefits of compassionate accountability and why it is so important in the workplace, yet so challenging to achieve 
3. The practical application of mindful leadership in the workplace, and in life
4. What Homer Simpson, The Buddha and Alice in Wonderland can teach you about accountability, clarity and curiosity
5. What he learned about creating heartfelt and thriving work cultures after living 10 years in a monastery
6. How to address breakdowns in the workplace and instead transform them into possibilities
7. Why avoiding conflicts will get you in big trouble
8. The four most important words to assess any relationship: “How are we doing?” 
9. Simple steps to cultivate a clear, inspiring vision of success in the workplace and beyond
10. Four ways to shift your identity and become the person you aspire to be
11. The power of truth-telling to resolve conflict and other destructive emotions 
12. Starting by stopping: Using meditation and other reflection practices to hit the reset button
13. The three ingredients to finding psychological safety at work and home
14. Leaning into discomfort: How to learn to live in the “stretch zone” to take exciting and challenging risks
15. Strategies to hold ourselves and others accountable 
16. How to build supportive communities to achieve shared goals 
17. Why making small changes can lead to big results 
18. How to shift your thinking around “difficult people” and behaviors..and how to know if you are the difficult person
19. Core skills to develop greater self-awareness of the stories we tell ourselves and view situations through a more productive lens
20. The power of real listening for well-being and healthy relationships 
21. Why we must embrace curiosity–and why that’s more difficult than we might think

Marc is also available for expert commentary on:

1. How Mindful Leadership Cultivates Success
2. The Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader
3. Accomplishing More By Doing Less
4. How Business can be a Force for Good
5. Reducing Overwhelm, Managing Work Stress and Anxiety
6. The Role of Mindful Leadership in Change Management
7. Mindfulness Meditation and the “Zen” of Business