The Mindful Investor: How a Calm Mind Can Bring You Inner Peace and Financial Security

The Authors

Maria Gonzalez, BCom, MBA

Maria is a 30-year business veteran who believes that Mindfulness transforms lives. She has been meditating regularly since 1991 and teaching meditation since 2002. She applies Mindfulness to all aspects of her life, both personally and professionally. As founder and president of Argonauta Strategic Alliances Consulting Inc., she ensures that Mindfulness is indistinguishable from her business, whether negotiating complex strategic alliances or coaching business leaders to use Mindfulness in their lives and businesses.

Maria's personal mission always has been to enable people to achieve their best by helping them help themselves. When someone is suffering from stress, they're unable to focus and make good decisions or even to enjoy life. As a founding member and Vice Chair of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addictions and Mental Health, she knows the toll that stress can take on individuals, organizations, and society. She's witnessed first-hand how Mindfulness meditation can enable those who practise the techniques regularly to benefit from the ability to create calm and focus at will, and to see clearly under stressful circumstances. This enables them to make sound decisions. She sees the impact of this on their lives and their businesses every day.

Her passion is the application of Mindfulness to daily life and she has coached hundreds of people to apply it while in a meeting, making a presentation, developing corporate strategy, ...