Key-note Speaking
Marc Lesser integrates the wisdom, integrity, and spontaneity of a Zen teacher with the vision, drive, and focus of a successful CEO. He is a business leader, executive coach, storyteller, and visionary. His power and presence and ability to deeply touch the lives of his audience comes from a 30-year daily meditation practice, founding and leading a publishing company for 15 years, and from living in (and managing) a Zen monastery. Marc was the director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the western world. He was the founder of Brush Dance, a successful, highly acclaimed publishing company with world-wide distribution. Marc now brings his vision and experience to many through his writing, keynote addresses, business retreats, and through coaching executives in corporations throughout the world.
The Presentations
- Marc's presentations include
- Accomplishing More By Doing Less
- Leadership With Integrity, Impact and Imagination
- Creativity and Innovation: Seeing the Obvious as the Road to Success
- Utilizing Ancient Wisdom Traditions to Increase Productivity and Profitability
Marc is a dynamic and easy speaker. In these captivating presentations Marc integrates hands-on practical insights, with powerful and humorous stories, while providing a perspective of depth, compassion, and success. Marc brings a refreshing, surprising, and quietly astonishing new light to changing the rules and assumptions of business and enlivening your work — new practices and observations, as well as guidance to seeing yourself, your work, and your life through expansive, appreciative eyes.
Key Themes
Thriving in Uncertainty: Being creative and successful in business and in our lives requires that we be responsive, flexible, and have the ability to change our consciousness, and to move beyond our comfort zones.
You are perfect just as you are: Though it may seem paradoxical, all real change and creativity begins by understanding and facing the reality of your current situation. What is it you are REALLY doing?
Creativity, Innovation, Zen: How can we bring our activities, our work, and our lives alive? Learn how slowing down and looking deeply can lead to greater satisfaction, and business success. Wisdom — Success Beyond Success: Why are you here on this planet at this time? What is your mission? How are your actions aligned with this mission? What are your next steps? It is sometimes said that "wisdom is knowing what to do next."
Mark's Bio Highlights
- Author of Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration published by New World Library
- M.B.A. degree from New York University
- Founder and former CEO Brush Dance, Inc.
- Stanford University teacher — Integrating Work, Life, and Relationships
- Founder and CEO of ZBA Associates
- Coaching clients include Google and Technorati
- Director — Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Download Marc's Onesheet (pdf)