Leadership & Staff

Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Founding Board Member

Founding Board Member and President Dawa Tarchin Phillips, senior mindfulness teacher, co-founder of The Mindfulness Leadership Online Training Conference and the Mindful Leadership Tribe; CEO of Empowerment Holdings, LLC (California; US)

Diana Winston

Founding Board Member - Advisor Emeritus

Founding Board Member, Diana Winston, director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health. (California; US)

Tiffany A. Jackson

Ex-Officio

Executive Director, IMTA; ASAE Certified Association Executive (CAE) (Wisconsin; US)

Éowyn Ahlstrom

Board Member

Owner/Director, Middle Path Healing Arts; Registered Yoga Teacher; Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, Mindfulness Center at Brown University; Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) teacher; Licensed Massage Therapist; Co-Developer & Fundraiser, Center for Mindfulness & Compassion (Massachusetts; US)

Alejandro (Alex) Bravo

Board Member

CEO, Sr. Executive Coach & Mindfulness Teacher, Revelatio360 (Mexico City; Mexico)

Wade Brill

Board Member

Founder & CEO, Wade Brill Coaching LLC; Professional Certified Coach; Energy Leadership Index™ Practitioner; Meditation Facilitator, UCLA’s Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior (Washington; US)

Jim Cahill

Board Member

CEO & Founder, Medicine Mind Inc.; Founder, Earth Day’s Ocean programs, Board Certified Biofeedback Therapist (Hawaii; US)

Dane Jacka

Board Member

Founder, Pauseful; Secular Meditation Teacher, Mindfulness Coach (South Wales; Australia)

Kathirasan K (Kathir), Ph.D.

Board Member

Founder, Centre for Mindfulness and the Mindfulness Academy in Singapore, Philosopher and Scholar-practitioner; Developer of the Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) program (Singapore; Asia)

Stacey Mandel

Board Member

Mindfulness Specialist, BIG Mindfulness & Meditation; Prison Monitor, PA Prison Society; Pardon Coach, Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity; Co-Coordinator, Mindfulness and Social Change Network (Pennsylvania; US)

Alexis Thomason

Board Member

CEO/Founder, The Noble Maat Collective; Mindfulness Meditation Certified Teacher (MMTCP), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, Mindfulness Center at Brown University; National Certified Trainer, Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening at the National Family Support Network; ECIN Mindfulness Teacher of Color Network; Bowen Family Systems Coach; BIPOC Sangha Administrator, MMTCP Alumni Network; K-12 Educator; Speaker and champion for children everywhere (Maryland; US)

Martin Aylward

Advisory Board Member

Mindfulness Training Institute Moulin de Chaves/France

Marvin Belzer

Advisory Board Member

UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

Tara Brach

Advisory Board Member

Insight Community of Washington DC

Mirabai Bush

Advisory Board Member

Mirabai Bush

Mark Coleman

Advisory Board Member

Mindfulness Institute

Bonnie Duran

Advisory Board Member

University of Washington

Rich Fernandez

Advisory Board Member

CEO of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute

Jim Gimian

Advisory Board Member

Founder and Publisher Mindful Magazine

Trudy Goodman

Advisory Board Member

Advisory Board Member

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Advisory Board Member

Author, Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher

Craig Hassed

Advisory Board Member

A/Professor and Mindfulness Coordinator Monash University, Victoria/Australia

Tara Healey

Advisory Board Member

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Jeremy Hunter

Advisory Board Member

Peter F. Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

Amishi Jha

Advisory Board Member

Director, Contemplative Neuroscience Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative University of Miami

Jack Kornfield

Advisory Board Member

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Rhonda Magee

Advisory Board Member

Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco

Alem Makonnen

Advisory Board Member

The Compassion Institute, Trustee

Fleet Maull

Advisory Board Member

Engaged Mindfulness Institute

Eric López Maya

Advisory Board Member

Founder and Director, Mexican Institute for Mindfulness.

George Mumford

Advisory Board Member

Mindfulness and Performance Coach

Tanya Odom

Advisory Board Member

Global Diversity and Inclusion and Education Consultant and Executive Coach

Rose Pavlov

Advisory Board Member

Founder/President & CEO of Ivy Child International

Sharon Salzberg

Advisory Board Member

Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher

Christiane Wolf

Advisory Board Member

MBSR Teacher, Senior Teacher at Insight LA

Shinzen Young

Advisory Board Member

Unified Mindfulness

Yi-Yuan Tang

Advisory Board Member

Presence-CASBS Fellow, Stanford University Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University

Tiffany A. Jackson, CAE, CQIA

Executive Director

Anita L. Smith

Membership Program Manager