The founder

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My name is David Matta. I am a Mindfulness Teacher and an instructor at the American University in Beirut (AUB) and Universite St. Joseph (USJ) in mindful leadership and strategic management. In addition, I am a management consultant in strategy, leadership, organizational culture and governance. In my career, I join the practitioner and academic sides with more than 30 years of experience across different functions and sectors in the Gulf and Europe. 

I am also a Sloan Fellow at London Business School with an MSc. in strategy and leadership and an Oxford business alumni with an executive degree in scenario programming. I also hold an EMBA and a Mechanical Engineering degrees from the American University of Beirut (AUB). 

I  have a particular interest in embedding mindfulness in schools, colleges and organizations in Lebanon and have been working with different bodies to develop mindfulness teachers. I have published papers about the subject. 

I also teach the M5 leadership model, a hybrid of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) and MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) to college students and private audiences, and apply its principles to teams and organizations.