Leading and Living with Mindfulness

Friday, April 11, 2025
Geffen 440

11:30 a.m. Lunch Available
11:45 a.m. Fireside Chat
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As part of Leadership and Ethics Week 2025, join the Student Leadership and Ethics board for a session with Deepak Sethi, CEO of Organic Mindfulness. This interactive session will explore the transformational power of mindfulness and its application in both life and leadership. We will delve into how to cultivate mindful leadership, focus on the importance of ‘being’ over ‘doing,’ and understand how mindfulness incorporates emotional intelligence and how together they are crucial in terms of helping us enhance our leadership approach. The discussion will be moderated by Daniel Russman, PhD Candidate in Marketing.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the practice of mindfulness meditation and how it differs from other forms of meditation
• Embracing the present moment and navigating the paradox it brings
• Developing a leadership style grounded in mindfulness

This event is sponsored by The Paul M. Montrone Seminar Series on Ethics. 

About Deepak Sethi

The speaker is a longtime corporate leader with extensive experience running executive development programs. He has written about the effective use of mindfulness for personal and professional development, including demystifying the term itself.

He came to the US as a Rotary Foundation Fellow and obtained his MBA from Penn State. He started his career with AT&T in marketing, and then leadership development, where he designed and ran executive development programs for several years.

He then joined the Thomson Corporation as Vice President/VP of Executive Development and worked there for seven years. He has served on the Board of the Human Resource Planning Society. His leadership work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and he has been a frequent speaker at leadership conferences. Deepak’s current passion is mindfulness meditation and living mindfully.