Search Inside Yourself - Toronto

As a professional and leader, you face multiple demands both at home and at work: fast-paced environments, shifting workplace cultures, pressure, deadlines, staying up-to-date on the latest technologies, and an endless to-do list. You're expected to adapt fast, handle complex challenges, and stay connected—all while achieving results.

The Search Inside Yourself Program was built to help with these exact challenges. Originally created at Google, this emotional intelligence program offers a practical way to build the skills you need to navigate today's working environment and thrive, from the inside out.

Because sustainable well-being and success are possible.

Search Inside Yourself has been taught in hundreds of organizations and cities around the globe as the world’s leading mindfulness-based leadership and emotional intelligence program. And now you have the chance to experience it live, in the heart of Toronto!

What's included?

• In-Person Experience: 2 full days of immersive sessions.
• Practical Resources: Additional tools, audios, and practical resources
• Capstone Webinar: Reconnect as a group to discuss your progress
• Supportive Community
• For peer-to-peer learning and to support your process.

Venue and Logistics

The program will take place at the beautiful Faculty Club at the University of Toronto.

It will start at 9.00 am on both days and end at 5.00 pm.

A nourishing breakfast and beverages will be included on both days.

What You’ll Gain at Search Inside Yourself:

• Greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence
• Practical mindfulness and compassion practices
• Skills to manage stress, uncertainty, and change with resilience
• Tools for building more meaningful relationships, personally and professionally
• Strengthen leadership and communication skills
• Deepen your connection to your values and sense of purpose
• Navigate change with greater clarity and confidence
• Deepen your connection to purpose and meaning

Do you have any questions? Connect with us.

Faculty

The program will be led by two renowned certified teachers:

Annie Simpson M. Ed. is a Leadership Facilitator, Trainer, and Coach.

She has been engaged in leadership education for 20 years and specializes in the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of leadership. At the University of Toronto, she helped to grow a large leadership institute and designed programs for students and corporate professionals.

At Western University, Annie designs and leads development programs for faculty and staff who lead teams. She is inspired to work with leaders and teams to build cultures where collaboration, empathy, wellbeing and inclusion are prioritized. She has been teaching the Search Inside Yourself program since 2018 and is also certified in the EQI 2.0.

Carolina Lasso is the founder and CEO of Plenari, author of The Path to Flourishing and The Purpose Reset.

Passionate about creating practical tools to help people flourish, Carolina combines her business background with her dedication to personal development as a teacher, coach, and mentor.

Carolina has worked as a leader at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Google, American Express, and Telemundo. She is also a certified emotional intelligence, leadership, resilience, and mindfulness expert, business mentor, and Purpose Coach.

She enjoys oil painting, dancing, spending time with her family in her native Colombia, and discovering new places around the world.