Toronto, Canada

Brandon is the Teacher Development
Manager at SIYLI, where he supports the
organization in cultivating world-class
mindfulness teachers.

Brandon has taught the SIY program to a wide variety
of audiences, ranging from large investment firms in
Asia, to manufacturing and technology companies in
the United States, to the general public in Iceland. He
is nourished by empowering leaders to align with
their intention to show up fully at work and in their life.

Prior to SIYLI he was a Senior Consultant for Oliver
Wyman, a management consulting firm. He worked
across industries on a range of strategic initiatives,
focusing primarily on capability building and
facilitating change within organizations. In this role he
consulted for public and private enterprises around
the globe, including two years based in Dubai.

Brandon has also spent years training in mindfulness
at monasteries of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He is an ordained
member of the Order of Interbeing, the core
community of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Brandon graduated with highest honors from the
Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
He is an avid table tennis player who is always up for a
good match.

She has worked internationally facilitating mindfulness workshops and retreats within the sectors of education, healthcare and business.This has included work in Canada, Bhutan, India, Germany, France, the UK and USA.  

She is an instructor for the Applied Mindfulness and Meditation Certificate Program at the University of Toronto in the Continuing Education Faculty. She holds a masters degree focused on bringing mindfulness into education, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine, with a focus on integrating mindfulness into healthcare settings. 

She spent a year as the international program coordinator for Wake Up Schools, a global initiative to cultivate mindfulness in education, established by Nobel Peace Prize nominee, scholar and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Elli’s novel background in both academic research and mindfulness practice provides a distinct approach to her ongoing work teaching and researching in the field of mindfulness. 

She is honoured to be a grant-making advisor for the Pollination Project, a foundation that gives seed grants to individual changemakers all over the world. Elli is dedicated to the cultivation of a compassionate and healthy society, and through her work she hopes to continue walking a path that leads there.