Marc Lesser is a CEO, Executive Coach, 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 the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself program within Google. Search Inside Yourself is a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders. He then co-founded and was CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute from 2012–2017. He founded and was CEO of 3 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 is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki and leads Mill Valley Zen, a weekly online meditation group. https://marclesser.net