Bernadette brings her clients more than 25 years of business acumen, working with Fortune 500 firms to entrepreneurial enterprises in the high-tech, healthcare, advertising/marketing, and non-profit environment. She holds a B.A. in Business Management and an MBA in Ethics and Leadership from Mills College, Lorry Lokey School of Business, Oakland, California. Bernadette is certified in Cognitive Behavior Therapy from the Beckman Institute, holds a Neurocoach Certification, and is a Unified Mindfulness Coach. Bernadette is also passionate about sharing her insights as an inspirational writer and speaker and finds joy and balance in her life-long practice of yoga and meditation.
With her combined expertise in business management, the science of neuro coaching, meditation, and wellness, Bernadette quickly assesses her client’s business obstacles and personal uncertainties. She works with her clients to present a new working framework which disrupts old ineffective patterns. Her talent as a coach supports each client to achieve rapid and lasting improvement and transformation with less effort and more ease. Bernadette’s dedication and commitment to her client’s success, promise to ignite the brain’s drive system to achieve a powerful state of wellness and coherency.
Bernadette is the CEO of Cognitive Performance and the co-owner of BrainFIT Institute. She has written coaching guides, resources and articles, and currently collaborating on soon to be released non-fiction self-help book on practical neuroscience for the workplace.
Julianna received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As founder, president, and head trainer of Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young’s comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs.
Dr. Hunter serves as associate professor of practice and is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as visiting professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he developed and co-teaches the Leading Mindfully executive education program..
Dr. Eisendrath serves as chief psychologist and president of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy, P.C., where, as a Jungian analyst, she offers psychotherapy with individuals and couples, psychoanalysis, supervision, and training.
Dr. Vago serves as the research director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Psychiatry.
Stella is a psychologist, professor, and Zen practitioner. She became a formal student in 2008 in the Soto Zen tradition. She teaches courses in mindfulness based psychotherapies and the psychology of compassion at the Union Institute & University. She also co-facilitates a family program and young adult program at Shao Shan Temple, in Woodbury Vermont.
Dr. Creswell serves as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Health & Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. McCormick currently serves as director of education at Unified Mindfulness. In 1975, he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was part of Dr. Elliot Aronson’s research team that examined cooperative approaches to reducing interracial conflict and academic performance problems in newly integrated school, and made Honors in Psychology, College Honors, and Thesis Honors.
UnifiedMindfulness.com is the official teacher training platform for Shinzen and the Unified Mindfulness System.
Created over 50 years of research and testing by Shinzen Young, Unified Mindfulness is a system of meditation that’s easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others. It is also a secular form of meditation, which means it’s not religious in any way so anyone, of any faith, can do it.