Partners

Barbara has been practicing mindfulness for over 20 years. Barbara is supervisor and advisor to Louise Chester, as well as working with other associates of Mindfulness at Work. She is a qualified as a teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy from the Institute of Mindfulness Based Approaches. This was a 16 month professional teacher-training. Barbara adheres to the ‘Good Practice Guidance for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses’. She is currently studying for an Msc in Mindfulness and Compassion with Aberdeen University at Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland. Barbara is a qualified Counsellor and an Accredited Member of the BACP, working with clients since 1994. In the early 90s she started integrating Mindfulness and Radical Acceptance approaches informally into her teaching in a men’s prison where she ran the Art Department for 12 years. Barbara currently teaches Mindfulness courses to the public. For further details visit www.dailymindfulness.com

David is an innovator in Business, the Arts and Social Change.  A lifelong performer (he made his Royal Opera House debut with Placido Domingo at the tender age of nine) he has spent the last 20 years bringing arts-derived creativity into boardrooms of the corporate world. He likes to concentrate on the inspiration that’s available, but overlooked, in daily working life. He is known as the Meeting doctor for the way he brings extraordinary mindfulness to ordinary meetings and his book on the subject “Will there Be Donuts?” made The Times Top Ten list. Street Wisdom, the social business he founded and leads, provides immersive, urban mindfulness workshops in 28 countries around the world.   His latest book Story for Leaders helps leaders at every level harness the power of narrative for good. He’s an enthusiastic – if out of breath – road cyclist and entertainer (unpaid) for his two children.

Kate has a long-standing mindfulness practice and is the joint founder of our Mindful Wellness programme.
Kate gives talks and workshops to business clients empowering their staff to adopt healthier
lifestyles. Fresh, creative and practical information is delivered in an interactive style that encourages involvement and engagement.

Kate is passionate about making nutritional change easy and effective. She is a highly experienced international speaker and her successful practice methods have secured extensive TV appearances, publishing deals, magazine features and commissions as an international keynote speaker.
As founder and director of the Harley Street clinic The Nutrition Coach, Kate has personally worked with more than 5,500 patients face to face

• TV appearances include UKTV’s ‘The Truth About Beauty’ (with Martine McCutcheon).
• Books include ‘Get Healthy for Good’ (Whole Health), ‘Drop a Dress Size’, ‘Shape up your life’,
‘Be Incredibly Healthy’ and ‘An Unfit Mother’ (Harper Collins).
• ‘Corporate Wellness Bible’ (52 Brilliant Ideas, publish date 2013)
Accenture • Acumen • Bank of England • Bank of New York Mellon • Divertimenti • Channel 4 • Charles Russell Solicitors
• Chiswick Business Park (Nice Place to Work) • Christies Fine Art Auctioneers • City West Homes • Conocophillips •
Discovery Channel Europe • EDF Energy • Food Secret • Investec • Itsu • Jones Lang LaSalle • JP Morgan • Leiths • Ogilvy
and Mather • Origins • Oxford University Press • London Underground Limited • McKinsey Consulting • Merrill Lynch •
Ping Pong restaurants • Prêt a Manger • Royal Bank of Scotland • Skanska • Topshop • Verisona Law

Krishna Pendyala is a noted author, systems entrepreneur, and a change agent who uses a playful approach and empowers people to make more mindful choices at work and in life. He is the founder of the ChoiceLadder Institute, the creator of the AlphaZone workshops designed to enhance the skills of conscious judgment and effective choice-making by improving our Judgment Quotient (JQ).  Krishna is the president of the Mindful Nation Foundation, a brainchild of Congressman Tim Ryan, whose vision is to help people overcome stress and lead more fulfilling lives. He also produces and hosts Janice Marturano’s Mindful Leadership and the online workshops for Mindfulness at Work at the Mindful Virtual Academy. 

Krishna is an accomplished software entrepreneur, award-winning multimedia producer, inventor and sought-after business growth and personal advisor. He has guided individuals and teams at Bayer, Boeing, Carnegie Mellon, the Pittsburgh Steelers, UNESCO and UBS using his simple, yet practical framework distilled from his varied career experiences. His transformational approach has been featured on TEDx, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Huff Post Live, and Inc. magazine among others. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Beyond the PIG and the APE: Realizing Success and true Happiness and blogs for the Huffington Post.

Krishna received his B.S. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, his M.S. in education foundations and media technology from Indiana State University, and has attended executive management programs at both Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities. In 2014, Krishna was awarded the distinguished alumni award for his professional achievements and community service from Indiana State University. He is also a graduate of Landmark Education’s Curriculum for Living. Krishna lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two teenage children and enjoys playing golf, photography, kayaking, and RVing.

Long-standing Mindfulness practitioner, Mike Robbins is the author of two books which are on our recommended reading list, Focus on the Good Stuff and Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken, which have been translated into twelve different languages.

As an expert in teamwork, emotional intelligence, and the powers of appreciation and authenticity, Mike delivers keynote addresses and customized seminars that empower people, teams, and organizations to work together effectively and be more successful. He has inspired tens of thousands of people around the world to reach new levels of awareness and productivity, both personally and professionally. Through his speeches, seminars, and writing, Mike teaches people important techniques that allow them to be more grateful, appreciative, and authentic with others and themselves.

His clients include some of the top organizations and institutions in the world, such as: Google, Wells Fargo, Adobe, Charles Schwab, Twitter, the U.S. Department of Labor, Gap, New York Life, Stanford University, Chevron, Yahoo, Kaiser, UC Berkeley, Genentech, the San Francisco Giants, and many others.
He has been featured on ABC News, the Oprah radio network, in Forbes, the Washington Post, and many others. He is a regular contributor to Oprah.com and the Huffington Post.

Sara is a Senior Learning & Development Professional and mental health at work trainer, as well as a resilience coach for executives. As a Sustaining Resilience at Work (StRaW) practitioner she specialises in resilience, wellbeing and mental health awareness training.  She is also Mental Health First Aid Trainer and ASIST suicide prevention trainer.

Areas of particular interest are sustained transformational behavioural change either through raising awareness with mental health at work training or with executive resilience coaching.

She is passionate about de-stigmatising and eliminating discrimination around mental health and wellbeing. Sara believes that everyone should be treated with respect and given appropriate support to live life to the full.

Sara is currently training as a Mindfulness training practitioner with the Mindfulness Association and will complete the Teacher Training programme in July 2018.

Voluntary work includes: ask me ambassador communities against domestic violence and abuse and a Dementia Champion providing Dementia Friend information sessions.

Inclusion Partners guide clients to build agile and fearless organisations, by unlocking and releasing the diversity potential in people to raise innovation, collaboration and agility.

Inclusion Partners bring deep expertise in areas including, gender, culture, generational, neurodiversity, intersectionality and inclusive leadership.

Through our partnership with Mindfulness at Work we are able to bring a practical and sustainable approach to inclusive behaviour and culture change through a range of integrated tools, measurable training and coaching programmes.

The Center for Mindful Self-Compassion provides information about MSC, an 8-week program designed to cultivate self-compassion skills for daily life. Founded in 2012 by Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher K. Germer, PhD, the center is a place where people can learn about self-compassion, find out where to train in MSC, continue to practice MSC skills, and explore how to teach MSC to others.

The Mindful Virtual Academy curates and presents the best courses and online workshops geared towards helping people adopt a mindful way of life. Developed in collaboration with some of the world’s best mindfulness teachers, the academy uses a state of the art interactive platform to deliver the programs. Each course and workshop is carefully designed and produced to ensure an effective and engaging learning experience.

Given that great teachers are in high demand, they are unable to reach all their students via a traditional classroom. Today, we’re proud to provide high quality instruction direct to your screen through an experience you’ll enjoy.

The topics we cover are geared towards helping people make better choices in life. Current courses include teaching mindfulness at work, leadership, battling burnout for health professionals and teachers.

We are the global leader in providing customized, organizational effectiveness programs based on mindfulness. Our mission is to enhance individual and company performance, resilience and creativity. During the past decade, we have brought mindfulness training to 25,000 individuals in over 100 companies across North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. All programs are individually designed to meet your needs.

Street Wisdom is a global social enterprise with a mission to bring inspiration to every street on earth. Led by volunteer facilitators in cities and towns across the world, Street Wisdom workshops give participants the skills to see the urban environment in a new way, ask a question and use the answers they discover to move forwards in life. Why wait for escape to exotic destinations when fresh perspectives can be found on your own doorstep? Street Wisdom teaches you how to access the ‘invisible university’ that’s all around us.

Created by business innovator and creativity maestro David Pearl in 2013, Street Wisdom delivers inspirational urban experiences through a growing network of volunteer street leaders, professional Street Wizards, and bespoke experiences for businesses. For more information go to: streetwisdom.org

Walking the Talk are global culture change experts that make culture do-able. With hubs in the U.K, Australia and Brazil, Walking the Talk’s client list includes Ericsson, Unilever, Vodafone, Direct Line Group, Three, Gerdau and Itau Unibanco.

During 25 years of working with organisations developing cultures for success, culture expert and CEO, Carolyn Taylor, crafted and refined a comprehensive methodology focused on all aspects of building a culture. The core of this methodology was outlined in her book, ‘Walking the Talk: Building a Culture For Success’ (Random House, 2005) still a trusted road map for leadership teams and curious individuals who are looking to explore the ‘soft’ side of business and need a pragmatic guide.

Prior to this, Carolyn was the CEO of the British Meditation Society, teaching mindfulness to hundreds on a daily basis. Through their partnership with Mindfulness at Work, Walking the Talk use mindfulness training as a powerful tool to help organisations and individuals work on behaviours and mindsets at a much deeper level than traditional corporate training programmes, leading to more transformational and sustainable culture change.

“Be the change you want to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi

This was the inspiration that led city investment analyst, Louise Chester, to create the not-for-profit Retreat within the grounds of Witherdens Hall in 2004. A beautiful barn conversion in the stunning Kent countryside, Witherdens Hall Organic Spa Retreat offers an entirely bespoke, boutique style experience which enable guests to relax and recharge, away from the frenetic, draining influences of modern life.

Louise has enjoyed the benefits of Witherdens Hall first hand and now devotes her career to enabling others to achieve their own breakthrough moment. By helping people to discover the tools they need to succeed in their business or personal life, Louise helps empower people to take steps that will change their life forever. Guests can also choose to book one of our affiliated Health and Beauty practitioners, which are of the highest calibre and help guests to relax and rejuvenate.

To complete this offering, The Retreat Workspace was especially designed to stimulate creativity and learning, where you can attend or host a course, workshop or business away day.