Episode 20: Chris Baer: Design & Innovation Leader at Marriott to Co-founder & CEO

25 set 2024 · 41 min. 12 sec.

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Please welcome Chris Baer to the Clocking Out podcast. Chris Baer is the founder of the https://www.mandala.institute/, an organization that helps leaders create humanistic and innovation culture in teams and...

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Please welcome Chris Baer to the Clocking Out podcast.

Chris Baer is the founder of the Mandala Institute, an organization that helps leaders create humanistic and innovation culture in teams and companies. He is an expert on innovation strategy, engaging and growing talent through coaching, as well as design methodologies.Chris is also a co-founder of Sunstone Therapies, an early-stage medical company dedicated to alleviating emotional distress in patients through trial psychedelic therapies. Chris also played a key role in the creation of the Bill Richard’s Center for Healing, a state of the art facility designed expressly for psychedelic therapy in the medical setting.

Prior to Mandala and Sunstone, Chris served as Vice President of Global Leadership Development and Learning Experience at Marriott International overseeing talent and executive development. In other Marriott roles, Chris led customer experience initiatives encompassing brand and digital consumer product development. Contributions included brand creation (Moxy), brand revitalization (Marriott Hotels), and customer experience strategy and execution (the Ritz-Carlton), as well as the development of Marriott’s enterprise innovation framework.

Prior to Marriott, Chris led an international marketing firm, and consulted to Fortune 100’s on digital strategy, product management and user experience.

Formally trained as an industrial designer at RISD, Chris employs design methodologies to business challenges and has brought design thinking to executives and their product teams globally.Chris holds a leadership coaching certification from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership (cohort 45), and coaches top executives seeking to bring forth transformation within themselves, their enterprises and beyond.

An internationally acclaimed artist, Chris is also a contemporary abstract painter and creates works in glass and mixed media.

Chris lives in Washington DC with his family.

Visit: www.Mandala.Institute
Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdbaer/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Mandala-Chris-Baer

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