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Marc Lesser

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Author, lecturer, workshop facilitator, executive coach, and Zen teacher Marc Lesser is known for his lectures that incorporate emotional intelligence and mindfulness training. He is the founder and CEO of ZBA Associates, an executive development and leadership consulting firm with Beneficial State Bank, Google, Twitter, Genentech, the San Francisco Airport, Kaiser Permanente, and others.

Education and Career:

Lesser holds an MBA from New York University and built and served as CEO of three businesses. Lesser was the director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the Western world, and a San Francisco Zen Center resident for ten years before beginning his business and coaching career.

Lesser was a key contributor to the creation of Google's Search Inside Yourself program, which teaches executives how to integrate mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and business expertise to build excellent workplace cultures and a better world. Lesser also established the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, which offers programs, tools, and content on mindfulness-based emotional intelligence, empathy, compassion, resilience, and leadership with training programs in more than 50 countries and served as its CEO for five years.

Books:

Lesser is the author of several books, including Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration, Know Yourself, Forget Yourself, Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen.

He has created audio and video programs for Insight Timer, Simple Habit, and the Mindful Leadership Summit, and his work has been highlighted in Entrepreneur, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Mindful. Websites including Medium, Thrive Global, and Mindful.org, syndicate Marc's blog.

Lesser has led mindfulness and emotional intelligence training in Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia, and across the United States.

Lesser writes monthly columns at Substack.

Podcast:

Lesser's podcast is ZenBones: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times launched in November 2022. The podcast features interviews with Leo Babuta, Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey, Parker Palmer and others.

Personal Life:

Lesser is married and has two grown children.

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