Keren Tsuk - Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Todays Leaders

Keren Tsuk, PhD, is a keynote speaker, consultant, and thought leader in twenty-first century leadership. Founder of the consulting firm Wisdom to Lead, Tsuk specializes in developing senior management teams and corporate leadership. She guides companies and senior management teams to reach their full potential using various techniques in the field of mindfulness. She has developed an innovative Mindfulness Based Leadership (MBL) course and retreat, which she conducts for organizations around the world. Her practice extends to assisting executives to discover their own inner wisdom and maximize their overall leadership potentialboth in and out of the workplace. With more than twenty years of experience working with senior management in the areas of transition, growth, and development processes, Tsuk has worked with companies such as Check Point, Verint, Amdocs, Ex Libris, Google, and Siemens. As a keynote speaker on the topic of the relationship between mindfulness and leadership, she has lectured at conferences worldwide and has been invited to speak at universities around the world, instructing graduate business school courses at PolyU in Hong Kong and Lahav Executive Education at Tel Aviv University, as well as teaching executive education courses at IDC Herzliya.

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