Co-Founder: Deepak Chopra, MD

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of over sixty-five books with nineteen New York Times best sellers in both the fiction and non fiction categories, his latest book, The Soul of Leadership, was mentioned as one of five best business books to read for your career – FINS – Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post On Faith and contributes regularly to Oprah.com, Intent.com, and The Huffington Post. Deepak Chopra’s popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. Chopra is the recipient of the 2012 Police Athletic League Humanitarian Award, 2012 Rubin Museum of Art’s Mandala Award for Humanitarian Achievement, 2010 GOI Peace Award, 2010, Starlite Humanitarian Award, 2010 Art for Life Honoree, 2009 Oceana Partners Award, 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor presented by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, and 2006 Trailblazer Award by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, 2002 Einstein Humanitarian Award through Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Journal of Psychotherapy.

He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School,Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 1997. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

Co-Founder: Jeremy Klein

Jeremy has over 22 years of experience Conscious Leadership principles to senior executives at Shell Oil, Nestlé, General Electric, Intel, Starbucks, Ford, General Motors, Xerox, Chrysler, and dozens of other international organizations and companies.

From 1995 to 2005, Jeremy worked closely with Dr. Fred Kofman, author of the book Conscious Business and VP of Leadership for LinkedIn. Together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Jeremy and Dr. Kofman developed and delivered hundreds of Conscious Leadership programs across the globe.

Following his work at MIT, Jeremy accepted the role of Director of Learning at LinKS Group in Copenhagen, who represent the Wharton School of Business in Scandinavia. While there, he continued to teach Conscious Leadership programs to C-level executives and their teams at Maersk, TDC, Telia, Nordea Bank, Alcon, Alectia, and many others. He also served as an associate lecturer at the AVT Business School in Copenhagen and designed their MBA Leadership Excellent Program.

Jeremy holds dual degrees from the University of Pennsylvania: a Bachelors in Applied Science in Systems Engineering and a Bachelors of the Arts in Literature.

Co-Founder: Poonacha Machaiah

Poonacha Machaiah is a leader in the wellbeing domain and has collaborated with global leader, pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine and New York Times best selling Deepak Chopra, MD, in the mission of ‘personal transformation and societal wellbeing’. He has championed the launch of wellbeing programs in corporations and communities globally.

Poonacha Machaiah is also the Chief Strategy officer at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and has co-founded the Conscious Leadership Global initiative, "Jiyo" a global wellbeing digital platform and ‘Deepak Chopra Innerspace’, a revolutionary product that leverages “grounding” to reducing inflammation along Deepak Chopra, MD. He serves on the advisory board of innovative companies in the wellbeing domain, such as Nurish.Me, Neuroverse, Facemap Ventures and the Juhi Center.

Poonacha holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bangalore, India