SUMMIT SESSIONS

Wendy Palmer

Embodied Leadership: Mindfulness as a Tool For Leading With Presence

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What You'll Learn

  • Discover how being centered in your body can open you up to choice, connection, and strength and help you develop the qualities you need to be an effective leader

  • Learn tools and practices to help you to become more resilient and respond to stress and pressure with greater presence and confidence

  • Hear how mindfulness and principles from the Aikido martial arts can increase your compassion, wisdom, and power to meet challenges that arise in your daily life

About Wendy Palmer

Wendy Palmer is the founder of LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT, a process using principles from the non-violent martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple practices to increase leadership capacity and respond to stress and pressure with greater confidence and integrity. Wendy holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. Her organization, LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT offers training to experienced coaches and facilitators wishing to teach Leadership Presence. Wendy's most recent book is Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak, and she is currently working on a new book, About Dragons and Power, which will be available on Amazon.

About Peter Weng

Peter Weng is the Chief Executive Officer of Healthy Minds Innovations. Peter is focused on helping organizations adopt science-based practices that support mental well-being and performance. He implemented systems of well-being and performance as a leader in large corporations and is regularly invited to share these experiences with corporations, governmental organizations, NGOs, and conferences around the world. Prior to HMI, Peter was the Chief Business Officer at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. Peter also spent many years in technology as an executive at Google and Dell while living and working in the United States, United Kingdom, China, and Poland. He held management and engineering positions in industrial water treatment at Rohm and Haas and Argo Scientific. Peter has served on the board of the Insight Santa Cruz meditation center and founded music, dance, and sustainable transportation community organizations.

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