Cory Smith, Co-Founder, and CEO at Wisdom Labs joins the show to talk about meditation, mindfulness, and creating resilience in the workplace. He has spent over 20 years aligning purpose, entrepreneurship, and social good to create companies that have a positive impact on people and the planet. With chronic stress and loneliness rates going up each year, Wisdom Labs focuses on the mental, emotional and social wellbeing at work. In this episode, Cory describes why we need to build resiliency with people in organizations, the growing market for Wise@Work, trends in conscious leadership, and how Cory shows up as a conscious leader at work.

Key Takeaways:

• Organizations need a community where they learn social awareness. 
• Any room can turn into a mindfulness room. 
• Chronic stress and loneliness rates are going up each year. 
• Meditation and mindfulness are essential tools in battling chronic stress. 
• We need to find a way to navigate burnout in leadership.

Meet Cory Smith  
Cory has spent over 20 years aligning purpose, entrepreneurship, and social good to create companies that have a positive impact on people and the planet. Previously, Cory was CEO of Impact Hub Bay Area, CEO of the Social Capital Markets Conference, the first Innovation Fellow for the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, CEO of Webcast Solutions (acquired by StarMedia/France Telecom) and Co-founder of MediaCast, the first on-location webcast company.
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Resources:

Wisdom Labs
Wise@Work the Podcast 

Tom Eddington's Ebook

Full Show Notes
Video Version of Interview
The Impact Effect Website