Meditation & Leadership in the Era of AI Expert; Early Headspace Leader & COO
Shona Beats Biography
Shona Beats teaches leaders what meditation taught Silicon Valley: wisdom is your competitive advantage in the age of AI.
At 30, she was signed off work with burnout and chronic anxiety. She found her way through meditation – and within months had joined Headspace as Employee #2 and COO. Over six years, she built the product, business, and team from the ground up, navigating hypergrowth, multiple funding rounds, and the relocation to Silicon Beach. Headspace made meditation mainstream and has since reached 100M+ users in 190+ countries.
Grounded in 5,000+ hours of contemplative practice and nearly two decades studying elite performance and leadership, Beats offers a way into what McKinsey calls wisdom – the judgment, discernment, and inner clarity that AI can’t replicate.
The Wisdom Advantage explores practices that can help leaders process complexity, make high-stakes decisions, and lead with composure under pressure – the inner work that creates competitive edge in the AI era.
Today,Beats is a keynote speaker and executive coach specializing in transformational leadership development for CEOs, founders, and C-suite executives. She serves on the boards of consciousness technology companies Lumenate and Dharma Dr.
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Shona Beats Speaking Topics
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The Wisdom Advantage: How to Lead When Everyone Has AI
AI has democratized intelligence. Every leader now has instant access to the same data, the same analysis, the same strategic frameworks. The playing field has been leveled
• and that changes everything. When everyone can ask ChatGPT, competitive advantage shifts from what you know to how you think. The question moves from what to do to how to be. From information access to insight. From speed to soundness. From output to composure. The challenge isn't learning to use AI
• it's learning to stay human in an AI world. To make high-stakes decisions with clarity, not just data. To discern signal from noise when everything is amplified. To lead with ethical grounding when convenience is always an option. Drawing on her experience scaling Headspace and working with hundreds of executives navigating transformation, Shona Beats offers a way in: practices that develop judgment, discernment, and inner clarity. How to access deeper insight under pressure. How to lead from composure rather than reactivity. The inner work that creates outer competitive edge. The age of information is over. Welcome to the age of wisdom.
Shona Beats Videos
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