Ed Howard is the author of One Breath Leadership, a system designed for people who need to think clearly and act decisively under pressure.

After a 20-year career in global investment banking, he founded Kokoro Business Performance to help organisations improve leadership, decision-making, and resilience. Not through theory, but through shifts in mind state.

He has spent over three decades studying Zen, including formal training in Japan, but his work strips away tradition and focuses on what is directly usable in modern corporate life.

His central idea is simple: leadership is not defined by what you know, but by the mental state from which you act.

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One Breath Leadership: The Burnout-Resilient, Neuroscience-Backed System for Executives and Managers Who Don’t Have Time to Meditate

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