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Andrew has the rare, and perhaps unique distinction of being a former Buddhist monk and a Wharton MBA. He has spent more than 10,000 hours in intensive mindfulness training and trained for more than 25 years, (eight years full-time) in monasteries and retreat centers throughout the world. Beyond that, he spent fifteen years working in private banking and wealth management at firms like Morgan Stanley, UBS, ANZ and Bank of Singapore. With this background, he is able to empower clients and colleagues with an approach to mindfulness that is deeply grounded in the reality of the business world. Andrew continues to develop his own mindfulness practice through regular periods of intensive silent retreat and through teaching at some of the worlds most innovative organizations. What's one of the most interesting aspects of the Wharton School? Vipassana meditation 'At The Wharton School MBA Program, University of Pennsylvania, I learned many interesting things, but the one that I value the most was something I never imagined I would discover at one of the world's most respected business schools - recognised in particular for its hard-core financial prowess. That thing was meditation!" The speaker was Matthew Chapple, the general manager of Mead Johnson, a major local consumer products company, itself part of a large international group. And the meditation thing he was talking about, and on which he would later expand with much enthusiasm, was Vipassana meditation. The reputation for The Wharton School for most people is the effectiveness of its financial curriculum. In fact, I'm quite surprised to know that Vipassana meditation is available as part of the curricula of this most prestigious of business schools. If it was not for the recent occasion that I was invited to share my thoughts and experience with 400 of Mead Johnson's management and staff at a mid-year conference in Bangkok, I would not have discovered this knowledge. With rising enthusiasm Matthew explained, "The school has a wonderful leadership programme ...