About Rasmus Hougaard FOLLOW

I am the founder and managing director of the Potential Project, the global leader in mindful leadership and mindful organizations. We are dedicated to enhancing individual and organizational performance, resilience and creativity.

We have helped over 1000,000 individuals in over 450 companies shift their cultures towards managing their attention better, being more productive, resilience and creative and we’d love to help you too.

We have over 250 trainers, across 28 countries, delivering corporate mindfulness programs to many of the Fortune 500 including Accenture, Cisco, Nike, American Express and Microsoft to name a few.

Throughout my earlier career I always had a deep interest in how mind training impacts performance, so as a long-term mindfulness practitioner I began, 10 years ago, to look at how to introduce these really helpful techniques into the corporate world.

Over many years, lots of learning, and a journey that took me from corporate boardrooms to research labs, to the Dalai Lama, business schools and back again we designed the Potential Project Corporate Mindfulness Programs. We wanted to be sure that what we deliver to clients really works, is deeply rooted in the practice of mindfulness and immediately applicable and acceptable to the fast-paced, always-on corporate world.

Whilst our size, global reach and client base may have grown over the years we remain very much a mindful organization, our mission to help people lead more engaged, happy and purposeful lives remains at the core of everything we do, every conversation we have, every program we deliver. Our trainers, themselves all deep mindfulness practitioners from corporate backgrounds walk the talk every day.

To find out more about the work we do you can read some of the HBR articles that I have had the privilege of writing, read our book One Second Ahead, or take a look at our publications and case studies on our website.