Article originally published on the Huffington Post in January 2018
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Soon after becoming CEO, Bertolini began Aetna’s mindfulness-based wellness programs with a study. He says, “We measured heart rate variability to establish stress levels for approximately 250 employees.
The recent debacle of United Airlines dragging a passenger off their plane is a dramatic demonstration of a company without an integrated corporate wellness program.
The document is primarily intended as a resource for those developing a business case for mindfulness training within their own organisation.
“It’s the new jogging,” said Bostelmann, who now runs a global mindfulness program at SAP. “Employees are more healthy and more engaged and they can cope better with a changing world.”
There is a confluence of factors propelling the growth of corporate mindfulness. Two big trends are high stress and low engagement levels at work. There are external factors as well that are pushing leaders to turn to mindfulness.
Two minutes of wisdom from Jon Kabat-Zin, who explains how mindfulness can help us reduce our “Me, me, me” narrative and the concept known as selfing.
Article originally published on Harvard Business Review in December 2016
Mindfulness is the height of fashion in leadership development circles. At a recent conference in the field …
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