Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, and founder (in 1979) and former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic.

He is the author of numerous books, incluiding two best-selling: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Dell, 1990), Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994). 

Seane Corn is an internationally renowned Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and spiritual activist. She is well known for her passionate and inspirational style of teaching and the work that she is involved in throughout the world using yoga for positive social change. Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her co-founded organization Off the Mat, Into the World.

Seane has spent time in India, Cambodia and Africa working with prostitutes and street children, teaching yoga, providing support for child labor and educating people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Seane is also co-founder of the Seva Challenge Humanitarian Tours, encouraging yoga teachers to get involved in fund and awareness raising efforts across the globe.

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He began his training after graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967. Then he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Public Health Service in northeast Thailand, which is home to several of the world's oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. He met and studied under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. After returning to the United States, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California, where he currently lives and teaches. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a husband, father and an activist.

His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. They include, A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Teachings of the Buddha; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom; Living Dharma; A Still Forest Pool; Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart; Buddha's Little Instruction Book; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace and his most recent book, A Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology.

Bradley Horowitz is the Vice President of Product Management at Google.

He oversees Google's communications products and social applications including Google Talk, GrandCentral, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo's advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.

Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab and was pursuing his Ph.D. there when he co-founded Virage.

Greg Pass is the Chief Technology Officer at Twitter. Previously, he was the VP of Engineering for the company. Prior to Twitter he was the CTO and co-founder of Summize, the Twitter search engine.

Greg is also a student of meditative & martial arts, and leads a weekly "Twideokinetics" practice at Twitter.
 

Kaitlin Quistgaard joined Yoga Journal in 2003 and was named Editor in Chief in 2006. She is an avid yogi, who began practicing more than two decades ago. During the late 1990s, Ms. Quistgaard served as Technology Editor for Salon.com and, prior to that, as Business Editor for Wired News and as a frequent contributor to Wired magazine. During a four-year stint in Argentina, she reported on politics and economics for Time magazine, the Miami Herald, and the Sunday Times of London.

Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. She is a frequent participant in dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama exploring the intersection of modern science and Buddhism.

She also embraces various technologies, and is very active on social networks like Facebook.

David Rock is the founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems (RCS), which has operations in 15 countries across the globe. In his capacity as CEO, David works with Fortune 500 clients specializing in embedding internal coaching capacity within organizations to develop leaders, retain talent, improve performance, and change culture.

David is one of the thought leaders in the global coaching profession. The integrated coaching system he developed in the mid-90's has been taught to over 10,000 professionals in more than fifteen countries.He is the author of 'Personal Best', (Simon & Schuster, 2001), 'Quiet Leadership' (Harper Collins, 2006) and 'Coaching with the Brain in Mind' (Wiley & Sons, 2009), and 'Your Brain at Work', released in October 2009.

In 2004, David founded the brain-based approach to coaching, which has gathered momentum as a theory base for coaching ever since. In collaboration with several leading neuroscientists, David is working to explain the neural basis of issues like self-awareness, reflection, insight and accountability.

Rich oversees Learning, Leadership Development, Talent Management and Organization Development at eBay, the world's leading e-commerce platform. At the heart of Rich’s work is an expansive view of development, which sees people and organizations as inherently vital and capable, boundless and joyful. Rich takes the perspective that all things are but one thing – a singular and singularly beautiful relational field. The full integration of consciousness, rendered from this state of completeness and connectedness, is Rich’s highest aspiration personally and globally.

Rich received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology, both from Columbia University. He has worked for the past decade and a half in Fortune 500 companies, and prior to that in colleges and universities, as well as in hospitals and clinics.

Gopi Kallayil is a Group Product Marketing Manager at Google with responsibility for marketing Google’s search advertising (AdWords) products to advertisers in the Americas and Asia Pacific. Earlier he led the team that markets Google’s Publisher facing advertising products (AdSense).
 
Prior to joining Google, Gopi was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Nextance, an enterprise Contract Management Software startup. Gopi was also a consultant with McKinsey & Co. where he worked on engagements helping the management teams of large corporations improve business performance and maximize revenues. Gopi has a degree in electronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology (India) and MBA degrees from the Indian Institute of Management and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gopi also teaches a weekly yoga class at Google.

Meng, whose official title at Google is “Jolly Good Fellow,” is an early employee of Google who for years worked as a Software Engineer at the company and is now Head of Google University's School of Personal Growth, where among other activities he oversees and teaches the mindfulness-based program, "Search Inside Yourself."

Soren is the founder and host of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, the annual event exploring living with awareness and wisdom in the technology age. He is also the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Teachings for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, 2009), and is a regular contributor to the Social Media blog, Mashable.

He has led mindfulness programs in a wide range of settings, including to youth in New York City juvenile halls, trauma workers in Rwanda, teachers in Nigeria, and US technology companies. As project director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized the Healing through Great Difficulty Conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.