Dr. Kyra Bobinet is the CEO and founder of a neuroscience-based design firm called EngagedIn. This organization specializes in behavior change by bridging the gap between what people want to do and what they actually do. Dr. Bobinet is the author of “Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, & Purposeful Life”.  She has founded several healthcare start-ups, and has designed behavior change programs, billion-dollar products, and mobile health apps. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value.

• Company: engagedIN

• Sylvia Gretchen, her mindfulness teacher

• “What I think the value of mindfulness is, is that, I know when I'm having negative emotions.”

• “I learned that we breathe so shallowly as modern people.”

• Book: Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet

• “My mindfulness alarms are going off when I realized that there was a group of young people collecting. It's not a good sign after school.”

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