how to: Enhance your Performance at Work with Mindfulness
5th July 2016 · 6:45pm - 8:00pm
In person | Virtual event
Consultant to Accenture, Nike, Microsoft and Sony, Rasmus Hougaard joins the how to: Academy to teach us how to maintain focus and enhance our performance through mindfulness.
Work-life has changed radically over the past decade. We are now constantly pressured, overloaded with information and bombarded by distractions. This is impairing our focus, wellbeing and overall productivity. Rasmus Hougaard will teach us how mindfulness can get us one second ahead of ourselves and our work to enable peak performance and wellbeing. Through this special workshop with the how to: Academy, you will understand the neurology behind mindfulness, how it is being adopted by the leading companies around the world, and how you can use it to boost productivity and happiness in your own life and work.
Matthieu Ricard, humanitarian, Buddhist monk and author: One Second Ahead is a major contribution to bringing not only more sanity and mindfulness to the workplace but also a more caring and open-minded attitude in all walks of life. Highly recommended.
Rasmus Hougaard is the Founder and Managing Director of Potential Project, the global leader in customized leadership and organizational training programs based on mindfulness. The firm has a proven track record of enhancing individual and collective performance, resilience and creativity. Potential Project works with Fortune 500 companies in 22 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Potential Projects 250+ clients of include Accenture, Nike, American Express, Microsoft and Sony, to name a few. The objective of their programs is to enhance individual and organizational performance and well-being through skillful application of mindfulness in a corporate context.
Rasmus has practiced and taught mindfulness since the early 90s and has many years of experience working with leaders and individuals in bringing mindfulness and mental effectiveness into their organizations and lives. He has led more than 1500 workshops and programs for more than 50,000 people and is recognized as a leading international authority on training the mind to be more focused, effective and clear in an organizational context. His book “One Second Ahead – Enhance Your Performance with Mindfulness” was published by Palgrave Macmillan in November, 2015.