Search Inside Yourself (SIY)

Michelle Maldonado is a former attorney, turned business leader with more than two decades of experience across the technology, legal, education and nonprofit communities. She brings expertise, compassion and wisdom cultivated from her professional experience and over 35 years of meditation practice to her work with leaders to help their people and organisations thrive with purpose, resilience and high performance.

Michelle is a Search Inside Yourself Certified Teacher®, who has taught the SIY Program to leaders across diverse corporate, academic, and government landscapes. She also is founder of consulting firm, Lucenscia, and co-founding Board Member of the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, Northern Virginia Conscious Business Alliance. Michelle has been recognized by the National Association of Professional Women as “2015 Woman of the Year” and Canadian-based HR.com’s Leadership Excellence as a “2016 Top Corporate Leader”.

She is a graduate of Barnard College at Columbia University and The George Washington University Law School.

Deiric McCann is Executive Vice President for Profiles international’s European and Far Eastern operations. A popular international speaker on employee engagement and productivity, he daily applies SIYLI principles to improve engagement and bottom line results.

He has authored four best-selling books, the most recent of which is Leadership Charisma.

Ibrahim Bokharouss originally crossed paths with Search Inside Yourself at Google in 2009, where he was working as an engineer.

This sparked a multiyear and multipath journey of self-inquiry and self-development, eventually accumulating in the desire to give and share the insights and enrichments to others, starting with becoming a yoga teacher in 2013 and a Search Inside Yourself teacher at Google in 2015. Around that time, he also shifted into initiating and working on mindfulness engineering projects at Google. Parallel to that he enjoyed being and learning in the fields, working with youth in developing countries and humans in refugee camps.

In 2018 he joined Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, where as part of the product team he is exploring the role of technology in introducing and sustaining practices of wisdom and compassion, while also continuing teaching Search Inside Yourself programs across the world.

Svea von Hehn passion is to combine the rigor of evidence based consultancy  with the wisdom of mindfulnessin her work.

For almost 20 years she has been working internationally (e.g. in Europe, the US, China, Middle East) as a management consultant on organizational transformation & personal development for private & social sector clients. Among others, Svea worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company focusing on large-scale change and capability building programs. She holds a diploma and PhD in psychology, and is a certified systemic coach and SIY-teacher. Svea is author of several books on mindfulness & leadership.

Since 1994 she has practiced mindfulness and been trained by different meditation teachers (especially in the realm of Zen as disciple of Zen-Master Prof. Dr. Migaku Sato Rôshi). In her spare time, she practices Ashtanga-Yoga. She lives
with her family (1 son) in Berlin.

Since 2012 she is co-CEO of the consultancy RETURN ONMEANING GmbH (www.returnonmeaning.com) with the vision of cultivating conditions for meaningful work in the workplace.