Bill Duane
Culture Whisperer, Engineering Executive, Well-Being Expert
Featured Media
“You can bring mindful awareness to all contexts, including being online.” — Bill Duane, a Google executive and meditation teacher who oversees the company’s well-being and performance learning programs.
Wisdom Lab's podcast series Wise at Work covers practical ways to create a resilient, innovating organization.
The Superintendent of Well-Being at Google discusses his morning routine and the book that changed his life.
When you have the opportunity to ask some of the most interesting people in the world about their lives, sometimes the most fascinating answers come from the simplest questions. The Thrive Questionnaire is an ongoing series that gives an intimate look inside the lives of some of the world’s most successful people.
For Profit Work
changing the way we work
Keynotes, Consulting and Workshops
The world is increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, yet requires strategic vision, constant innovation and interpersonal cohesion in order to be both effective and happy. The bad news is we’re wired to stress out early and often, which gets in in the way of way of being effective and happy. The good news is there are concrete things you can do at the individual and organizational levels to be more skillful. Informed by neuroscience, complexity theory, mindfulness and 12 years of being an executive at Google, I can tell you about them.
Strategic Adviser at Wisdom Labs
Wisdom Labs provides science-based tools that promote sustainable high performance, happiness, and wellbeing.
Our multi-modal learning solutions, which combine mobile learning and in-person experiences, enhance stress management skills and boost resilience and thriving at work and beyond. We build the capacity to be effective in fast paced, complex, high performance environments. All of the tools we offer are science-based and rooted in mindfulness, self- and social awareness, mental and emotional agility, compassion, and personal and team resilience.
Read MoreConsultant at Google
Advising the Benefits, Learning and Development, Ethics and Compliance, Google for Entrepreneurs and Google for Education orgs on strategy and tactics around sustainable high performance . Keynotes for large external events. Family!
Nonprofit Work
Chairman of the Board of Veteran's PATH
Veteran’s PATH enables returning veterans to rediscover meaning, purpose, and joy in their lives through mindfulness, meditation, and a safe community.
Our approach reconnects veterans with strength and service.
Through practical tools of meditation and mindfulness, physical and outdoor experiences, and a community of camaraderie, veterans rediscover peace, acceptance, transformation and honor in a new journey forward.
Fellowship Advisor At RSF social Finance
RSF fellows are financial activists leveraging capital as a tool for positive change. Bill advises RSF Fellows on:
- Career envisioning and implementation
- Personal development
- Managing audacious goals and burnout
- Effective teams and organizations
- Creating organizational culture
- Fostering innovation and social change
Board Member at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
SIYLI was born at Google to take the world renowned Search Inside Yourself mindfulness based emotional intelligence class to the world. Over 20,000 people have taken the SIY program in more than 100 cities.
