Michael Foster is the founder and Chair of the non-profit Institute for Organizational Mindfulness (IOM), and an accomplished entrepreneur and executive. Mike has founded, grown, and harvested four companies that have been acquired into the Fortune 100 and 500 - and continues as the principal shareholder and a director of his fifth, the Human Capital Institute (HCI).

Mike has been a student of Eastern science and philosophy since 1968, and an active meditator in various disciplines since. As a career-long CEO in start-up organizations, he has experienced the transformative power of mindfulness and believes that scientific confirmation of its impact on physical, mental, and emotional fitness signals an inflection point in how we can teach our children, train our leaders and help our workers flourish.