Partnering with Leaders on their Insight journey
Partnering with Leaders on their Insight journey
Leadership is lonely at the best of times. When we’re also on a pathway to transformation we need trusted partners alongside us. The journey of insight can be liberating and inspirational but also invites us to look deeply, challenge assumptions that we may have held for many years and to let go of what is no longer serving. The journey has its highs and lows, its moments of joy and moments of despair and moments of utter confusion. We are not meant to walk this path alone.
Our Mentors
Ian Sneath
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After living in a Zen retreat centre for two years; insights come. My life path had been ill-considered. Most entrepreneurs have incredible spirit. But where is this energy directed? Are we happy right now? As an entrepreneurial business owner, caught in the world model of having & doing instead of being, I had taken a path that was hurting me & others. This wrong view came from not understanding who I was; my mind was too busy. why; because I was running into the future, away from my difficult past. Our society is perfectly set up to do this.
I have witnessed & experienced amazing transformation through mindful insight. Wisdom connection is essential to a happier life. We have become separated & individualistic which causes us disconnection. It’s a constant practice as I have not changed & have changed. Many ingrained neural pathways still exist for me to take care of. My volition now, is to empower expanding consciousness in leaders, Innovate eco, social, sustainable mindful communities & retreat centres to alleviate the separation and loneliness that has developed in our society. Assist & relieve the individual & collective restlessness by providing supportive mindful wisdom programmes to enrich life, build self esteem and help calm busy minds. With concrete practices endorsed by many neuroscientist, we can change our brain; thus cultivating more joy, love, compassion and understanding. We can then potentially start to reverse the damage done to ourselves; our loved ones; our relationships & Mother Earth.
How – To help share innate ancient wisdom through interactive mindful leadership courses. To innovate a land & Property fund so as to allow mindful, wise communities & retreat centres to flourish; to give the opportunity for us all to stop & look deeply; to find our real why; & path in life; as I have been so blessed to have been able to do.
Helping others find their real purpose is also a big passion. The joy, freedom and peace that comes with this is immeasurable. Contentment comes from within; we struggle to find contentment externally.
I discovered my spiritual leader Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh some years ago. His key mindfulness teachings are unsurpassed. Together with the experience and skills developed helps me to follow a path of wellbeing, focussed planning and increased day to day happiness with these concrete steps. This manifests from finding out what life we really want to live.
Tan Tran
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Tan specializes in mindfulness and leadership. Ordained as a student of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, he has practiced in this tradition since 2008, and was trained as certified teacher of several world-renowned mindfulness programs such as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Search Inside Yourself, Mindfulness-based Strengths Practice. Since 2006, Tan has worked in various positions in leadership consulting. He has shared mindfulness and leadership to many individuals and organizations, including General Electric, Salesforce, Heineken, L’Oréal and Manulife. He has also translated books on mindfulness & leadership by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Otto Scharmer and Robert K. Greenleaf. At the moment, Tan lives at a mindfulness practice collective house in France. His working languages are Vietnamese, English, French and Norwegian.
- Co-founder of Insight Leadership
- Managing Partner of The Flourishing Circle
- Member of the Order of Interbeing
- Certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
- Certified teacher level 1 of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Certified teacher in training of Mindfulness-Based Strength Practice by VIA Institute
- MBA in Strategy and Leadership, Business School at Norwegian University of Life Science
- Certified coach by the American Board of NLP and Hypnosis
Jaume Gallifa
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Born in Barcelona, with a background in Applied Economics and IT leadership, Jaume specializes in transformational change and flourishing. Project and quality management professional and certified coach, Jaume has led many large-scale international enterprise programmes and project rescue situations. Passionate about building communities of practice, Jaume is an insightful expert and practitioner of self-leadership, Zen flourishing coaching, mindfulness and character strengths. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jaume’s working languages are English, French, Spanish, and Catalan.
- MBA in Economics, Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona
- Master Coach in Leadership and Communication
- Chartered Certified Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice (MBSP) Practitioner
- Founding member, Mindfulness Practice Centre, Lausanne
- Owner / MD, Gallifa & Partner LLC
- Member, The International Coach Federation, The Swiss Positive Psychology Association, The Order of Interbeing
- Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Flourishing Circle
Heather Monro
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An accredited executive coach and leadership consultant with a passion for expanding leadership consciousness, transforming the way we do business and contributing to a more joyful, sustainable and equitable world.
Born in London, I grew up in environments characterised by aspiration and the pursuit of excellence and where success was measured in academic achievements, awards, and certificates. After graduating from Cambridge University with 1st class honours I found myself questioning if there was more to being human than chasing career success and wealth. I stepped off the career production line and went where my heart was drawing me to; the wilderness. I spent the next 15 years as a world-medal winning athlete in orienteering, adventure racing and wilderness running.
On retirement from the pursuit of international sporting success I embarked on sharing my deepening interest and personal insight into the psychology of optimal performance to help others flourish. But after 10 years of ‘successful’ leadership consultancy and executive coaching I was restless and questioning my contribution. My clients were delighted with improvements in their personal productivity and wellbeing but the world was still heading into economic, social and ecological collapse. I realised that so many in the field of coaching and leadership development were just helping leaders to survive in broken systems. From that moment on my mission has been to help leaders transform the systems.
I am passionate about expanding the field of leadership consciousness and reimagining the way we do business. Through my deep personal connection to nature and my own journey of opening my heart, looking deeply, mindfulness practice and conscious growth I’ve developed a ‘ruthless compassion’ and deep sense of interbeing that I bring to all my work. I love nothing more than creating a space where leaders can embrace vulnerability, grapple with questions with no obvious answers and challenge conventional operating norms. When we connect with our true essence and remove limiting assumptions, we can bring fresh ideas to life, lead more authentic and fulfilling careers and transform our organisations , thereby contributing to a more joyful, sustainable and equitable world.
- ILM L7 PGDip in Executive Coaching
- StageSHIFT Certified Coach (Vertical Development)
- Mindfulness Association Practitioner Certificate
- Working languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish