AJ Bicât

Company Owner, Calmworks®

London

AJ Bicât is one of the world's top corporate MEQ® instructors. He has taught in hundreds of organisations including Penguin, M&C Saatchi, Mind Candy, The Department for Work and Pensions and Cisco.

AJ grew up traveling extensively and studying tribal and religious philosophy and psychology in Nepal, Tibet, Australia, Russia and North America.

He then built a 20-year career in film & TV working for Buena Vista International, BBC TV, Paramount and Channel 4 as producer, director and writer.

On returning to live in the UK he became a Center for Mindfulness Qualified MBSR™ Facilitator under the tutelage of Jon Kabat-Zinn's University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Oasis Centre for Mindfulness and used this platform to develop his own corporate training product: MEQ® Leadership.

This revolutionary programme changed the perception of mindfulness and emotional intelligence based interventions from being seen as wellbeing, to being seen as genuine hard skill L&D resulting in significant productivity, employee engagement, staff turnover and absenteeism benefits.

In 2018, MEQ® Leadership was included on the core curriculum of the UK Civil Service L&D platform further underlining emotional intelligence’s essential part in all our employees’ training pathways.

AJ Bicât is registered in the UK as an MBSR facilitator who meets the Mindfulness Network's good practice guidelines. At Calmworks® we believe a consistent commitment to daily practice is the most essential part of being a Facilitator. For AJ’s personal practice record please follow him on twitter: @ajbicat.