Uday Khedkar is a Leadership Transformation Facilitator & Executive Coach based in Mumbai, India. He is a Director with Life Learning Solutions, which has impacted the lives of over 60,000 people globally over the last 19 years.
Uday’s work has been a confluence of Eastern wisdom and Western approaches towards transformation – an assimilation of mindfulness, ontology, metaphysics, somatic work and nonviolent communication.
After working in sales and marketing roles in a variety of Indian organisations, a crisis of meaning led to an inquiry and a journey within. This inquiry resulted in a reinvention, and he co-founded Life Learning Solutions with like-hearted individuals. As a leadership facilitator, mindfulness & somatic coach over 19 years, with over 3500 hours of coaching experience, Uday has worked extensively with leaders in the corporate world, as well as non-governmental organisations, monks and spiritual leaders.
His mission has been to support leaders in connecting with their essence and enabling them to be in service of a world that can work for everyone.
Uday has been a student of Vipassana for 20 years, and Unified Mindfulness has opened up a new layer of realisation and freedom to his mindfulness practice in the last five years. He has been able to integrate it in his work in simple ways that enable leaders to adapt and thrive.
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.