Shalini Bahl

Shalini Bahl, Ph.D., is a mindfulness consultant, an award-winning researcher, and certified mindfulness teacher. She has dedicated over 15 years researching and developing cross-disciplinary solutions to help businesses, educators, and political clients build essential mindfulness skills. Her mission is to empower individuals to disrupt default thinking and live with empowered choice for personal and collective fulfillment, creating a better world for all.

Certified at the Center for Mindfulness, UMass Medical School, and the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute that originated at Google, Dr. Bahl is the Founder of Know Your Mind LLC, a social business committed to making evidence-based mindfulness skills widely accessible. Her teachings are rooted in time-tested principles of mindfulness, backed by insights from neuroscience, psychology, and a human-centered approach.

As a former successful entrepreneur and business professor who has lived and worked in three countries—India, Kuwait, and the USA—Dr. Bahl has a deep appreciation of each client’s unique journey and meets them where they are. She works with diverse audiences including CEOs and executives at Fortune 500 companies, educators, and students.

Beyond her professional achievements, Dr. Bahl is a TEDx speaker and has real-world experience of practicing mindfulness not only as a teacher but also as an elected municipal leader and academic.

Her pioneering work in this field has been published in premier marketing and public policy journals. One of the papers, a collaboration with other researchers, won the Best Research Paper Award from The American Marketing Association in 2019. Dr. Bahl's guided meditations and programs have had over 250,000 plays on the Insight Timer and Simple Habit app, making her resources accessible to all who seek them.

When she’s not researching or teaching mindfulness, she loves to cook tasty and healthy vegetarian food, dance and make music, hike in nature with family and friends, and all kinds of creative projects. Her love for life and mindfulness is contagious, and she brings this infectious energy to every aspect of her work.