Mark Howard, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Burlingame, California. He retired as department chief of Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Chemical Dependency Services after 27 years of service. Dr. Howard was introduced to the Three Principles in 1982, and is recognized as one of the original professionals bringing this understanding to psychology and related fields. He has taught clients, families, business professionals, and mental health practitioners about the principles, and in 1994 he brought the Three Principles to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Services in Santa Clara County California. Dr. Howard has co-authored a published research paper demonstrating the validity of the Three Principles in treatment outcomes, and in 2008, he was granted the “Outstanding Career Service” award by the Santa Clara Psychological Association for his Three Principles work.
Mara Gleason is co-founder of the NYC and London-based company One Thought, which offers Three Principles consultation to entrepreneurs, leaders, organizations and athletes. She is a sought after international speaker, soon-to-be published author, and her clients have included Russian physicists, the tech ambassador to London, companies of all sizes like Microsoft, as well as the US Army, Marines, and the NHL. It is her life’s work and passion to demonstrate how a new understanding of the mind will enable profound change toward a more peaceful, sustainable, and prosperous world. Mara graduated with a Master’s degree from Columbia University in 2006. She currently lives in Brooklyn, Oslo and London.
Eirik Olsen became fascinated by the relationship between the mind and human capability after his experience in the Norwegian military and deployment in the Middle East. For many years, he studied various mental practices and techniques, until coming across the Three Principles, which proved to be the birth of true transformation and insight. After four years of working from this new understanding, Eirik saw that this approach could be applied to people and performance across all fields, from individual, to business to global. He is especially excited to speak at the school because of its commitment to depth of feeling, and is also looking forward to being a student, “soaking it all in.” Eirik is the founder of NorthMind, the largest Scandinavian company based on the Three Principles, and part of the team of One Solution initiative, a series of conferences to look at how this understanding can address, alleviate and solve global challenges.