Marc Lesser is an executive coach, speaker, and Zen teacher with more than 25 years of experience as a leader and supporting leaders to reach their full potential, as business executives and as full, thriving, human beings.
Marc helped develop a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders within Google. He then co-founded and was CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute from 2012– 2017. Marc has been CEO of three companies and has an MBA degree from New York University.
Marc is the author of five books including Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, and Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less.
Prior to his business and coaching career, Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years, including director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the western world. He has a passion for utilizing business as a force for positive change and sees work as a place to cultivate character and bring meaning and satisfaction to everyday life. Find out more at marclesser.net