Christine O’Shaughnessy is the founder of Mindful Presence and the author of the award-winning, bestselling book “Mindful Presence in Leadership: Releasing Burnout, Chaos and Stress.” Christine provides executive coaching and mindfulness training to corporations, groups, and individuals, helping them thrive in emotional intelligence, leadership, and creativity. By integrating mindfulness into executive coaching and leadership training, individuals can cultivate essential social skills that drive growth and enhance the way they speak, listen, and act, resulting in more mindful communication. Christine is passionate about helping clients develop better responses to life’s challenges instead of reacting automatically and habitually, allowing them to live their life’s purpose.

Her areas of focus include enhancing emotional intelligence, thinking strategically, and motivating others. Christine guides clients toward achieving their goals by changing the way they think in a guided, efficient, focused, and profitable manner. She appropriately responds to high-stress situations, effectively manages challenges that employees face, addresses interpersonal differences and other conflicts, develops self-awareness, self-regulation, and emotional self-control, increases empathy and understanding, and cultivates the ability to manage relationships. Additionally, she boosts creativity and the capacity to innovate beyond self-imposed limits, ultimately improving overall quality of life and well-being.

Christine’s understanding of how stress impacts health as people progress in their careers has inspired her to incorporate mindfulness into daily life as an essential tool for managing stress, enhancing self-awareness, and regulating emotions while also addressing the mental effects of anxiety, depression, and illness. She collaborates with a diverse range of executives and organizations, including non-profits, investment and financial management firms, technology companies, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions. Her focus is on assisting individuals in achieving a work-life balance while enhancing performance, communication, empathy, and fostering greater behavioral flexibility.

Christine brings a wealth of knowledge from her previous career as a corporate executive into her mindfulness training, guiding individuals to become more mindful leaders in the workplace. She has held positions as Managing Director of a search firm, Director of Sales for a software company, and Vice President and Senior Credit Analyst at Loomis, Sayles & Co., an investment management firm in Boston. She earned a BA in Finance and an MBA from Babson College.

Christine has completed intensive training programs, including Non-Violent Communication Training, Proctor and Gallagher’s six-month leadership development program, Thinking Into Results, and RYT200 certification. She has taught workshops and led corporate retreats since 2004. Additionally, Christine is a Senior Mindfulness Instructor at Point32Health, the parent company of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, and is the co-creator of Harvard Pilgrim’s online instructional yoga videos and the meditation app Present.