MBSAT Teachers
MBSAT merges mindfulness with strategic awareness, empowering individuals to enhance self-awareness and make holistic, resilient decisions.
Deep understanding and skillful implementation of MBSAT interventions and practices put MBSAT teachers in a unique position to help individuals improve their decision-making skills. Strategic awareness for skillful decisions is a core component of MBSAT, because wise decisions are essential for higher levels of life satisfaction and sustainable well-being in professional as well as private life.
Our MBSAT teachers are a highly diversified group of professionals, all actively involved in a wide range of careers or businesses and simultaneously teaching MBSAT. The group includes individuals in different positions in organizations, entrepreneurs, coaches and counselors, business school professors, artists, and individuals in various other activities. What makes this group singularly attractive is their broad experience.
Hence MBSAT teachers are familiar with the challenges that their participants confront in their quest to perform successfully in a competitive environment and at the same time maintaining or increasing their well-being – two goals that often seem at odds with each other.
MBSAT teachers have a robust qualification based on the thorough MBSAT Teacher Training offered through the Mindfulness Initiative at Singapore Management University and they are required to pass the MBI-TAC before being officially certified. They must also maintain a consistent personal meditation practice. “Walking the talk” is one of the main criteria for MBSAT teachers.
Michele Buonaiuto
Country: Italy
Experience: Organizational Transformation, Change and Process Management, Consulting
MBSAT Teacher Status: In Certification
MBSAT Teacher Status: In Certification
I am a Transformation Leader/Consultant with over 23 years’ experience Applying Agile, Lean, Lean Startup, Positive Leadership, and Design Thinking principles to boost organizations aligning customers’ requirements with system enhancements, improve user experiences, efficiency while reducing risk.
Passionate to make the world a better place through enthusiasm, positivity and fun. My top strengths are leadership, enthusiasm, critical thinking and creativity which I have expressed through leading, consulting, facilitating training, developing, and mentoring businesses, executives and employees across diverse industries achieving exceptional results.
Passionate to make the world a better place through enthusiasm, positivity and fun. My top strengths are leadership, enthusiasm, critical thinking and creativity which I have expressed through leading, consulting, facilitating training, developing, and mentoring businesses, executives and employees across diverse industries achieving exceptional results.
My core force is to empower, energize and enthusiasm organizations boosting their positive heart through structured and scientifically proven approaches aimed at effectively Strategizing, Innovating and Executing. I can boost any environment by hacking people harts, motivations, and habits for achievement.
I have demonstrated ability to work in complex environments, with multinational individuals and businesses, adapting to new situations with ease, having led several Wide-scale wide spread technology & non-technology transformations, change and process management programs in multiple countries including Mexico, Spain, France, The Netherlands and Germany.
Dr Lim Ka Tiek
Country: Malaysia
Experience: Manufacturing technology, automation, processes and talent
Certified MBSAT Teacher
Dr. Lim Ka Tiek (KT) has 30 years of experience in the application of mindfulness during the challenging periods of his active career and post-retirement life. Recently, KT was trained in Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness (MBSAT) by Dr. Juan Humberto Young.
KT was the former Senior Director of Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Master Black Belt of Lean Six Sigma for a Multinational Corporation. He has over 30 years of experience as a change agent and innovator in advanced manufacturing processes, automation and talent development. KT has travelled globally to enable continuous improvement and transformation. He holds 14 United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patents and has been honoured as a “Distinguished Innovator” by his previous company.
KT is passionate about giving back to society. Post retirement, he spent the last 10 years as a freelance consultant, researcher and volunteer. He also collaborated with local universities, where he mentored students for their industrial research projects. He guides mindfulness practices and shares his experiences whenever the opportunity arises.
Junghyo Park
Country: Korea
Experience: Market research, Positive psychology training, Chief Happiness Officer
Certified MBSAT Teacher
Junghyo Park is a founder of BLOOM COMPANY specializing in positive organizational trainings and interventions. His team has not only developed diverse mind training programs for school teachers, soldiers, governments officers, and corporate leaders but also designed happiness activities at workplace. Recently he is leading the development of Positive intervention AI Chatbot for mental health.
Before the startup, he has 10 years experience in market research and online data collecting. In mid business, he completed a master program of Positive leadership and strategy from IE school (Spain) in 2014 and participated MBSAT teacher training programs from IE school and SMU in 2018-2019.
Dr Jochen Reb
Country: Singapore
Experience: Researcher and Lecturer; Founder & Director of Mindfulness Initiative @ Singapore Management University
Senior MBSAT Teacher
Dr Jochen Reb is the founder and Director of the Mindfulness Initiative @ Singapore Management University (SMU), where he teaches decision making and leadership. He is a long-time practitioner of mindfulness with experience in facilitating mindfulness programs for the general public as well as for business executives at various levels and in different industries. His key areas of focus are mindful leadership and mindful decision-making. He is co-editor of the book, “Mindfulness in Organizations” (Cambridge University Press 2015) and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Dr Reb has studied at Technische Universität Berlin, the Graduate School of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and did his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, USA. He is currently Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at SMU.
Dr Gerard Wong
Country: Singapore
Experience: Medical Director/Physician
Certified MBSAT Teacher
Extensive experience covering diverse areas in healthcare and industry including medical practice; hospital medical administration; pharmaceutical industry (regional and international); medical publications consulting (pharma channels); health and pharmaceutical product regulation (as regulator in national agency); clinical research encompassing regional and local clinical trials and studies, including start-up, development and management of clinical teams and clinical trial facilities. Qualifications in Medicine, Business Management, Coaching, Clinical Hypnotherapy and Clinical Management of mental health issues.
Dr Juan Humberto Young
Country: Switzerland
Experience: Finance, Management, Organization, Strategy
Author of MBSAT, Senior MBSAT Teacher
Dr J.H. Young has extensive business experience in leading management positions in the finance sector and other industries and as entrepreneur and investor. He designed the MBSAT program based on his intimate knowledge of the business and organizational world. In addition to a doctorate in management, he has Master’ degrees in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MSt), Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP), in Finance (MBA), Risk Management (MSc) and Public Administration (MPA). He taught Finance, Strategy, and Positive Psychology at the master’s level at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Currently, he is an Affiliated Faculty Member of Singapore Management University – SMU.
Dr Monika Young
Country: Switzerland
Experience: Economics, Banking, Public Service
MBSAT Teacher Status: In Certification
Monika has followed the development of MBSAT as teaching assistant since its beginning in 2014, when Juan Humberto Young taught Strategy and Mindfulness at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She completed the Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Strategy at IE University in Madrid, Spain, that included MBSAT as a core course. In 2018 she completed the MBSAT Teacher Training with the first cohort in Spain and Switzerland.
Monika’s background is economics (doctorate in economics, University of St. Gallen). She has extensive professional experience in Switzerland and abroad (USA, Latin America, West Africa) in a series of fields: corporate finance, banking management consulting, project management, macro-economic planning.
Positive Self-PortraitMy strengths are humor, academic zeal, and cooperation. As a psychological counselor and facilitator, I use my strengths to meet many people, and I use mindfulness to help take care of people’s minds. Also, I enjoy reading and writing, and I’m scheduled to publish a book titled ‘Self Counseling Book’ this year.
Elizabeth Wong
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong
Experience: Marketing, Sales, Coaching
Certified MBSAT Teacher
After pursuing a MBSAT course at Singapore Management University I have enrolled in the MBSAT Teacher Training program. My passion focuses mainly on mindfulness-based practices within a workplace environment, specifically executives and corporate clients. The end goal from my standpoint is to fully enable those I teach to make more effective skill-based decisions in the workplace based on my capacity as MBSAT teacher.
My background is in medical device business development. I have over 20 years of professional experience as marketing executive and currently collaborate in a Director capacity with counterparts in the Asia Pacific region.
In addition to my MBSAT teaching activities I practice executive coaching. I am certified with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches WABC and the International Coaching Federation ICF (ICF Associate Certified Coach) and I am also a Gallup Certified Strength Coach.
Mariska Praktiek
Country: Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands
Experience: Strategy and leadership communication, employee engagement and change
MBSAT Teacher Status: In Training
Mariska is partner at Switzerland-based business- and brand strategy consultancy Athena Associates. She founded this organisation together with Rudolf Rodenburg, an MBSAT teacher as well. Using mindfulness and positive psychology in their approach, the consultancy helps clients define a strategic space where the organisation as a whole, teams and individuals can and want to act with purpose and commitment. As a result, they have a positive impact on their environment, create a sustainable relationship with employees and clients, and generate a more constructive culture whilst achieving their financial goals – the organisation becomes relevant again in a time where expectations are beyond just profit and jobs.
Mariska has a background in the international corporate environment in the IT, insurance, finance and oil & gas industries, including over ten years for Shell. Her responsibilities included communicating strategy, engagement and change, working at board level and with functional leaders. She worked on mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, downsizing and re-organisations. In addition, she has trained numerous leadership teams and managers in leadership communication. The mindfulness-based strengths of some of the senior executives she worked with prompted her interest in this topic, and she has been practising mindfulness since 2005. Next to MBSAT, she also is certifying as a teacher of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). She has lived and worked in various countries in roles with a global remit and speaks Dutch, English, German and Swiss-German fluently and is currently improving her Spanish skills. She has a Master´s Degree in Business Economics.
Rudolf Rodenburg
Country: Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands
Experience: Business- and brand strategy
MBSAT Teacher Status: In Training
Rudolf is partner at Switzerland-based business- and brand strategy consultancy Athena Associates. He founded this organisation together with Mariska Praktiek, an MBSAT teacher as well. Using mindfulness and positive psychology in their approach, the consultancy helps clients define a strategic space where the organisation as a whole, teams and individuals can and want to act with purpose and commitment. As a result, they have a positive impact on their environment, create a sustainable relationship with employees and clients, and generate a more constructive culture whilst achieving their financial goals – the organisation becomes relevant again in a time where expectations are beyond just profit and jobs.
Rudolf has worked at some of the world’s leading brand and strategy consultancies, including Interbrand, WPP’s Superunion and Omnicom’s TBWA. His experience ranges from pharma to airlines and from energy to FMCG and finance. His areas of expertise include business strategy, brands, communication strategy, employee engagement and internal branding. Rudolf has been practising mindfulness since 2013. To take the benefits of mindfulness a step further, he trained as an MBSAT teacher. He guides clients to a balanced awareness and works with them on strategic decision-making processes. He enjoys bringing together parties from different cultural and functional backgrounds by using mindfulness to create an open atmosphere and build on strengths and cultural differences. Rudolf has lived and worked in various countries in roles with a global remit and speaks Dutch, English and German fluently, and is currently working on his Spanish. He has a Master´s Degree in Business Economics.