Meet Robert

Robert is an experienced coach in the areas of mindfulness and wellness enhancement across all dimensions. He partners with clients to help them develop self-awareness and see more clearly their strengths and areas for growth, while also supplying them with strategies and techniques to excel at each stage of development towards their personal and professional goals.

Mindfulness Teacher & Business Leader

Robert has been a certified mindfulness teacher and coach for over 30 years and has taught meditation programs to international audiences. He is also a lawyer and former investment management executive and partner living and working in New York City and Nova Scotia. He sees clients both in person and remotely.

Mindfulness Teacher

Robert offers a variety of services, including holistic coaching, transformational coaching, and executive coaching. His expertise has been honed through his wealth of experiences in the world of multidimensional wellness development across countries and industries.
His credentials include:

  • Board of Directors, Foundation for a Mindful Society

  • Board of Directors, Mindfulness in Law Society

  • Board of Advisors, Mindful Workplace Community (UK)

  • Board of Advisors and founder, Mindfulness in Law Group (UK)

  • Certified Teacher, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness and emotional intelligence program developed at Google)

  • Founder, New York City Bar Association Mindfulness and Wellbeing Committee

  • B.A. Vassar College, J.D. New York University School of Law

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Meet Robert

Robert is an experienced coach in the areas of mindfulness and wellness enhancement across all dimensions. He partners with clients to help them develop self-awareness and see more clearly their strengths and areas for growth, while also supplying them with strategies and techniques to excel at each stage of development towards their personal and professional goals.

Mindfulness Teacher and Business Leader

Robert has been a certified mindfulness teacher and coach for over 30 years and has taught meditation programs to international audiences. He is also a lawyer and former investment management executive and partner living and working in New York City and Nova Scotia. He sees clients both in person and remotely.

Certified Coach

Robert offers a variety of services, including holistic coaching, transformational coaching, and executive coaching. His expertise has been honed through his wealth of experiences in the world of multidimensional wellness development across countries and industries.
His credentials include:
Board of Directors, Foundation for a Mindful Society 
Board of Directors, Mindfulness in Law Society 
Board of Advisors, Mindful Workplace Community (UK) 
Board of Advisors and founder, Mindfulness in Law Group (UK)
Certified Teacher, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness and emotional intelligence program developed at Google) 
Founder, New York City Bar Association Mindfulness and Wellbeing Committee B.A. Vassar College, J.D. New York University School of Law

Linear and Intuitive Coaching

Through Robert’s coaching, clients typically uncover limiting beliefs, thought patterns, reactivity, and values conflicts which can impede their health, relationships, and career. Clients are empowered to make sustainable, profound, and lasting changes that help them find balance and improve their overall wellbeing.

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360 Feedback Tools

Where appropriate in a business context, 360 feedback tools can be used to help the client see how the people around them experience the client’s management style. Robert and the client will use the insights developed from the 360 to inform the coaching approach.

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“Robert has a unique ability to connect with audiences from across industries and around the world. A clear and compelling public speaker, Robert skillfully leads groups through transformational practices to help them optimize their lives at work and at home. Authentic, caring and funny - Robert has my highest recommendation!”

Amy Sandler

Professional Speaker, Harvard MBA, UCLA MFA

“Robert Chender is an extraordinary teacher who brings together deep wisdom, practical insight and daily practice. Building from traditions of mindfulness, meditation, self-awareness and social impact, Robert enables more intentional, effective and fulfilling leadership in work and life.”

Raphael Bemporad

Co-Founder and Principal, BBMG

“I work in finance and the hardest thing I have to do is make unemotional, rational decisions in very stressful periods. Working with Robert has helped me to develop empathy, improve my relationships, and effectively make smart decisions in high-pressure situations. Robert understands the business world well and teaches a form of practical mindful leadership that really works in a business setting.”

Jay Rhame

Vice President, W.H. Reaves & Co

"Robert has a way of seeing the ineffable, getting to the very heart of a matter immediately and without ornament, thus creating confidence and an atmosphere of freedom to proceed unencumbered by conflicted emotions.”

Nuala Clarke

Artist, Ireland

“Robert connects with the essence of my spiritual being and has been very valuable at key moments in my life.  He tunes into what my real issue is, and tells me what I need to hear.”

Gayle van Gils

Business Consultant, Florida

“Robert has been an utmost influential meditation instructor, wisdom teacher and energy healer in my life for over a decade. His healing practice is infused by the powerful transmission of Tibetan Buddhism’s direct path and the archetypal earth magic of Incan shamanism. His work is gentle, electric and heart-driven. "

Juan-Carlos Castro

Creative Director, California

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