Episode 4: Clif Smith

In this episode of the Organizational Mindfulness Podcast, you’ll hear from one of the newest and strongest voices in the mindfulness world, 

Clif tells his remarkable story about how he started a mindfulness program at Earnst and Young, which took on a life of its own. But more importantly, how he  believes in a path to learning mindfulness teaching based on science without the traditional Buddhist legacy and framing.

In this conversation about how organizations can adopt a culture of mindfulness, you’ll hear how his early teachers inspired him to go within and deal with fear directly and mindfully and how that informs his current teaching. You’ll also hear the heart-warming story behind one of his most popular techniques called “Catch and Release.”

Clif is EY’s Americas Mindfulness Leader and Global Mindfulness Network Leader. He is responsible for scaling mindfulness programs across the firm and with select clients.  He is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher, a teacher for  Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, an ICF certified executive coach, and an accomplished public speaker.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University and Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.

Clif’s experience in the private sector is preceded by 17 years in the US Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and broader Intelligence Community, where he served as an intelligence officer managing and carrying out signals intelligence, as well clandestine and overt human intelligence collection operations around the globe including deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Organization Mindfulness Podcast  is presented by the Institute for Organization Mindfulness and hosted by mindfulness coach Brett Hill.