Michele Nevarez

Beyond EI’s Founder and CEO, S. Michele Nevarez, is the author of Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Accessing Your Full Potential, published by Wiley, and a contributing author to leadership publications including Harvard Business Review and the Association for Talent Development. The inspiration fueling her work is to transform business and the leaders who run them into emotionally intelligent agents of world benefit. For the past decade, she has built and led her own companies toward that end, and Beyond EI now provides leadership consulting, training, and Level 1 (ICF accredited) Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification to a global portfolio of clients.

She came to entrepreneurship after 20 years of executive leadership inside healthcare, management consulting, investment management, manufacturing, and government consulting, and that time spent within organizations rather than advising them from the outside informs everything she teaches. Her work translates the insight of the wisdom traditions into contemplative, science-informed practices, introducing people to what they have direct agency over within themselves. Her frameworks, including the Awareness Matrix, the MindBody Map, and the 12 Self-Discoveries, help leaders understand the hidden mechanics of perception, where they are on autopilot and where they have emotional agency.

A founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute, a university based in Nepal, she has served on nonprofit Boards of Directors ever since and has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for the last 32 years.