George Brooks

George Brooks is a well-respected thought leader, innovator, and entrepreneur. A global business leader with deep training in mindfulness and cognitively based compassion training. He is known for his ability to unleash human power to improve the execution of strategy, inspire employees, improve customer happiness, and reinforce connectivity to the community and environmental wellbeing.

In addition to his broad range of experiences and extensive business career working with clients such as IBM, Lenovo, Dupont, and Siemens, among many others, George helps to bridge mindfulness-based science into the business world by creating real solutions for real problems at work across the world.

George was the Global Deputy of the EY People Advisory consulting practice. He was also a member of the EY Americas Leadership Teams for the EY Tax and Consulting Service Lines. In his 37+ years of international consulting experience, George has worn many hats and has found success in his creative “people-related” endeavors in the workplace.

George has a passion for helping individuals and leaders regulate their emotions and improve their performance at work. He created an innovative learning approach called MindBursts™. MindBursts™ are micro learning solutions that help you retrain your brain to perform a more desired behavior and regulate your emotions for common workplace anxiety. Embracing these new behaviors and emotional regulation will unlock confidence, optimism, kindness, and collaboration.

Known by colleagues and friends around the globe as passionate, inspiring, a big thinker, visionary, energetic, creative, fun, strategic, great storyteller, and a leader who leads with heart. George has been recognized as one of the 100 global thought leaders that will inspire you and one of the foremost innovators in the Human Resources.

George is driven by his vision to help millions of people around the world find a “better me” for themselves and a “better we” for their teams and organisations they work in. When he’s not changing the world, he spends his free time with his wife, children, and his granddaughter in the USA and across the pond in Ireland.