Our Purpose
We exist to create a resourceful community of Zen-inspired leaders who lovingly, effectively, and fearlessly lead themselves and others through challenging times.
Here you’ll learn more about our story, our people, and and how your donations make a world of difference in the difference we can make in the world.
Witnessing dysfunction, collapse, or feeling stuck in a daily grind, how can we find our power and make our difference?
Our Purpose Helps You Connect with Your Purpose
Zen training creates the condition in your body that, combined with leadership skills, allows you to create what you’re here to do. The conventional view that we’re an ego-identity, separate from others and the environment, is not our greatest truth.
Many wisdom traditions point to this greater truth, but Zen training makes it an embodied experience, so that you can increasingly function from this bigger, boundless sense of who you are.
Zen Leadership goes beyond stress reduction or thought-centered mindfulness to radically reframe the challenges you face, the limits that hold you back, and the energy you work with, so that what resonates as your work to do – your purpose – can play through.
Our Story
Learn how we got started and got here, and perhaps it will inspire you to help us write the next chapter in our story.
Our People
Meet our founder, staff, board members and faculty who bring life to this work and spring our programs to life.
Donate
Learn why donations are part of the lifeblood of our organization and how we work smart to make the most of your generosity.
“This is a precious opportunity to go deep, become inspired and activate to lead change from your whole self."
Cindy Haq, M.D., Professor Emerita
"Keep up the amazing work, IZL"
Tom Gruenwald, Ph.D. Phycisist, former CEO
"I’m happy to support IZL as much as I can because it supports me in so many ways."
Jo Griffin Preston, Leadership Development
