Just over two years ago I made the (some might call risky) decision to pivot my focus at the Big 4 firm, EY, to build a mindful leadership program aimed at demystifying mindfulness and making it accessible to the 80,000+ high-performing (and skeptical of mindfulness) professionals in our Americas region with the goal of positively impacting their performance, leadership, and well-being.

We’ve since had thousands complete the program and some of my colleagues, all of whom have much more insight into the learning and development space than I, suggested we submit the program for a Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management Excellence Award.

I’m so exited to share we just found out our Mindful Leadership program at EY won a Brandon Hall Gold Excellence in Leadership Development award 🥇 for 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺! It’s been such an honor bringing practical mindfulness training to so many at EY and beyond. (EY Americas Learning won 11 awards in total!)

Thanks to EY Americas Chief Learning Officer, Tal Goldhamer and Learning Experience, Incubation, and Design Leader, Helen Walsh, for the willingness to give the program space in our curriculum and thanks to the EY senior leaders (Kelly Grier, Ginnie Carlier,Carolyn Slaski, Richard Jeanneret, Marna Ricker, Gerry Dixon and so many others) for your generous support of our mindfulness initiatives.

Special thanks to the amazing team of exceptional mindfulness teachers, course producers, and others who help deliver the program to our people in the Americas and make the program better each and every day! Jessica Frankel, Eileen Legg, Kristin Conklin, Melissa D Jeng, Jason Trost, Michelle Lore-McHugh, Pat Mom, Rachel Troychock, and so many others as well as our 70+ EY Mindfulness Champions globally.

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