S1E8 - Rich Fernandez, CEO SIY Global, SIY: Search Inside Yourself - Mindfulness for Product Leaders
S1E8 - Rich Fernandez, CEO SIY Global, SIY: Search Inside Y…
Rich Fernandez is the CEO of SIY Global . SIY Global comes from the renowned Search Inside Yourself program, mindfulness and emotional inte…
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March 5, 2024

S1E8 - Rich Fernandez, CEO SIY Global, SIY: Search Inside Yourself - Mindfulness for Product Leaders

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Rich Fernandez is the CEO of SIY Global. SIY Global comes from the renowned Search Inside Yourself program, mindfulness and emotional intelligence training originally developed at Google, where Rich was director of executive education and people development. He was also one of the first SIY teachers. Rich has also served in senior roles at eBay, J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. In this episode Rich shares insights about the importance of mindfulness and meditation for product leaders, as well as the critical ingredients for leadership.

Key Highlights:

In this episode Rich covers:

- A Minute to Arrive - A Mindful Start to Meetings
- How it Began - Search Inside Yourself at Google
- Learning from Google: Making Meditation Programs Stick
- The Chief Mindfulness Officer
- Learning from SAP: ROI of Mindfulness Programs
- Strategic Rationale for Mindfulness
- Mental Clarity from Mindfulness - Separating Signal from Noise
- Emotional Mastery at Work
- Empathy & Compassion at Work
- Examples of Mindful, Empathic and Compassionate Leaders
- The Leadership Equation: T = (A*V*P) / (SO)

Connect with Rich Fernandez & SIY Global:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-fernandez-b0b29b15/
https://www.siyglobal.com/

Referenced in this Episode:

A Minute to Arrive Mindfulness Practice (SAP TV video)
Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan | Talks at Google (video)
Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan (book web site)
Chade-Meng Tan, originator of Search Inside Yourself at Google (profile)
Peter Bostelmann, Chief Mindfulness Officer at SAP (profile)
SAP Case Study: How Employee Well Being Boosts the Bottom Line (blog)
Compassionate Management at LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner, xCEO of LinkedIn (video)
Mark Benioff on Mindfulness (video)
Why Ray Dalio Meditates Everyday (video)
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (book web site) 
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (book web site)
Trailblazer by Mark Benioff (book web site)
Onward by Howard Schultz (book)

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