Janice Marturano

Janice Marturano is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, a nonprofit established in 2011 that offers retreats and workshops to train the mind's innate capacity to be focused, see with clarity, cultivate creativity and embody compassion. She is a certified mindfulness teacher and a former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at General Mills. She has also served as faculty at the World Economic Forum, and the Institute's curriculum was the first mindful leadership program invited to be taught there.

Her book, Finding the Space to Lead, won a Nautilus Award and has been translated into more than 11 languages. It is used as required reading at business schools including Columbia, NYU and USC. Her work has been featured in the BBC, New York Times, Time magazine and Financial Times, and she contributes to Forbes.

Janice describes mindfulness as the innate capacity of the mind to be aware of this moment, just as it is. She teaches practical, accessible ways to build it: meditation practices, structured reflections, and the Purposeful Pause, a short, repeatable way to steady yourself between meetings, decisions and difficult conversations. Her central belief, in her words as the Institute's founder, is that excellence in leadership comes from cultivating self-awareness and the space to make focused, clear, creative and compassionate choices.

Her curriculum draws on neuroscience and mindfulness practice and has reached thousands of leaders across corporate, nonprofit, academic, government and military settings. She writes regularly on mindful leadership and personally teaches the Institute's one-day workshop on building resilience.