We started our 2016 summit, with Professor Alex Wood of Stirling Management School, Professor Lee Newman, Dean of IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology and Michael Chaskalson, author of “The Mindful Workplace” and Professor of Practice at Ashridge Business School. Followed by leaders sharing their own experiences in becoming positive & mindful leaders. Read what Jim Callaghan, General Counsel, EMEA at Uber, Jon Hayes, Partner at DLA Piper, Ron Duncan, Managing Director at Soquel Greek Water District , Earnán Naughton, General Secretary of RACO , Liz Zeidler, Founding Director and Byron Lee, Head of Consulting and Training of the Happy City Imitative and Artur Mendes, CEO at Fairmont Corporate Finance discussed in the Winter 2016 issue of positive & mindful leader magazine.

These great leaders showcased how they implement positive leadership and mindfulness in their personal career and their organisations: Jan Mühlfeit, former Microsoft Europe Chairman and author of The Positive Leader, Lee Newman, Dean at IE University School of Human Sciences and Technology , Jorge Lopez, Business Director at 3M, was tasked with managing 3M’s Brazil business through the recent downturn, Verónica Pascual Boé, CEO of ASTI and President of Spain’s Industry 4.0 Commission, Amir Arooni, CIO at Nationale-Nederlanden, Deborah Rowland, author of Still Moving, Ashridge Universities Associate Professor Megan Reitz, shared her research results on mindful leadership, Debbie Jeremiah, Mindful Program Manager at General Electric, Marijo Bos, a highly experienced consultant, and Managing Director at Bos Advisory, shared her approach on how to fight ‘Executive Attention Deficit Disorder’.