JOE BURTON is the founder and CEO of Whil, the world’s leading digital wellbeing training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their performance. He is an entrepreneur in the digital health space, former President of Headspace, and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Joe is a renowned keynote speaker and contributor to Forbes, Business Insider, and HuffPost.

• Acknowledgments ixForeword, by Josh Bersin xiIntroduction: Being a Leader Is Amazing. And It Kinda Sucks xviiPart I For You 1Chapter 1 What Is Mindfulness and Why Should I Care? 3Chapter 2 What’s Stressing People Out? 25Chapter 3 The $500 Billion Dollar Slow Leak 35Chapter 4 Are You Increasing Your Resilience or Decreasing It? 47Chapter 5 What Does “Performance” Mean to You? 55Chapter 6 You Versus Technology 61Chapter 7 Invest Five Minutes a Day to Save Your Life 63Chapter 8 It’s Not a Religion. It’s a Lifestyle. 67Part II For Your Company 89Chapter 9 Reality Check: How Toxic Is Your Work Culture? 91Chapter 10 Sleepless Nights and the Walking Dead 99Chapter 11 Look, A Squirrel! Distraction and the Growing Safety Crisis 109Chapter 12 Turn Depressing Data Into Healthy Employees 119Part III Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Everyone 127Chapter 13 Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Skills for Yourself 129Chapter 14 Increasing Self-Awareness 143Chapter 15 Improving Self-Regulation 155Chapter 16 Boosting Motivation 167Chapter 17 Getting Positive – Don’t Call it a Comeback 181Chapter 18 Building EQ Skills for Others: Sharing a Better You 191Chapter 19 Applying EQ Skills at Home (Parenting) 209Chapter 20 Do or Die: It’s Called Practice For a Reason 217Free Whil Resources 221About the Author 223Endnotes 225Index 241