Mindfulness Practice IE Tower | 12:30h

Rodrigo Aguirre de Cárcer

Peace Coach, Adjunct Professor at IE, Senior Advisor, Sustainability and ESG at Beka Finance

As a Peace Coach, Rodrigo helps individuals, including top executives and professionals, achieve peace and fulfillment despite demanding schedules. He specializes in resilience, stress management, and mindfulness, incorporating practices like meditation, yoga, and nutrition. Rodrigo is also a professor at IE Business School, where his courses on resilient leadership and purposeful living are highly regarded. He contributes to the IE Center for Health and Wellbeing, drawing from his own journey of contemplative study and personal transformation.

Rodrigo's influence began spreading in 2012, sharing his insights in a practical way, fostering personal and professional success through contemplative mental training. He has helped hundreds achieve significant transformation, purely through word-of-mouth. Additionally, Rodrigo serves as Senior Advisor of Social Impact and Civic Engagement at Beka Finance, leveraging his extensive experience in finance and social entrepreneurship, including co-founding SocialBid and roles at prominent firms like Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs. An Ashoka Fellow and Rafael del Pino Scholar, Rodrigo was recognized as one of Spain's "Top 100 Economic Leaders For The Future" by the Choiseul Institute in 2018.

Shane O'Connor

Education Lead

The Charter for Compassion

Shane has worked internationally as a facilitator, trainer and educator in a wide range of areas from Peace and Global Education, Youth Work for professionals to Teacher training workshops. He has over two decades of experience working for local peace and human rights organisations, as well as larger International NGOs and educational institutions in the Global North and South. Over the past number of years, Shane has developed & led the CIT (Compassionate Integrity Training) Education Initiative and Coordinated the Global Education Network. He is a level 2 CIT facilitator and has also nurtured CITs strategic partnership with UNESCO/MGIEP. Now joining Charter for Compassion in 2022 in the Education Sector to continue co-creating and expanding compassion throughout the education community around the world.