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Anusha Wijeyakumar
Compassionate Leadership Expert, Best selling Author, Professor and Woman in STEM
Anusha is the Wellness Consultant for Hoag Hospital, one of the top-rated hospitals in the USA, where she leads integrative medicine initiatives and implements mindfulness, meditation, and sleep hygiene practices in various programs. These include maternal mental health, early risk assessment for breast and ovarian cancer prevention, breast cancer survivorship, and behavioral sleep medicine. Anusha is particularly passionate about her work in STEM and is one of the first to create a meditation program used in clinical research at Hoag Hospital.
Anusha is also an Adjunct Professor and Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellow at San Diego State University, where she teaches at the Weber Honors College on the intersection of wellness and social justice. DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) and collective care are central to her work, and she serves on the SDSU HSI Campus Advisory Committee, focusing on student success and academic outcomes for the Latinx/e student population.
A sought-after motivational speaker and thought leader on compassionate leadership, Anusha is an official SXSW speaker. She has delivered keynotes at health and wellness conferences, universities, Fortune 500 companies, and corporate events across North America and the UK. With over 15 years of international senior management experience, she has worked with Fortune 50, 100, and 500 global corporations, social justice non-profits, and private companies on three continents.
Anusha holds a BA, MA, a Diploma in Mentoring, a Certified Professional Life Coach qualification, and is an E-RYT Yoga Teacher and Chopra Certified Ayurvedic Health Coach.
Her first book, Meditation with Intention: Quick & Easy Ways to Create Lasting Peace, was released in January 2021Â by Llewellyn Worldwide.
TOPICS
Mindful Resilience
From Chaos to Calmness
Quiet Quitting to Quiet Thriving
Beyond the Checkbox in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Leading with Purpose
BOOKS
Meditation with Intention released Jan 2021

PAST CLIENTS
Fairmont Hotels
Ayco
Luxury Real Estate Companies of the World
YPO
University of California, Irvine
Pursue Healthcare
California School Public Relations
Hoag Hospital
Chopra Global
Pacific Life
Cigna Healthcare
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
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