Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, known as the Entrepreneur’s Zen Master, is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur, and trusted advisor to CEO’s who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation. He is the CEO & Founder of the global, transformative education platform, Heart Mind Institute, ranking 578 and 1.035 respectively on the 2024 & 2025 Inc. 5000 lists. Heart Mind Institute offers online summits, courses, and coaching programs integrating western science with ancestral & contemplative wisdom and addressing themes of trauma healing, resilience building, post-traumatic growth, expanded states of consciousness, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, conscious entrepreneurship, and more.
He also founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence, 1985 to 1999. He co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, training trauma-informed mindfulness teachers to work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and marginalization, and Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety, training corrections and other public safety professionals in mindfulness-based wellness & resiliency (MBWR) skills.
He is a senior Dharma teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and an empowered Zen master (Roshi) and Dharma successor of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman Roshi, founder of the Zen Peacemakers International. Roshi Fleet has served on the leadership team for the annual Zen Peacemakers Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat for more than 20 years and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness retreats.
Based on his 50+ years of study and practice of numerous meditation techniques from the world’s contemplative traditions, Dr. Maull developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM) meditation, a deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma informed approach to meditation that hacks the body’s deepest systems to accelerate healing, transformation, and spiritual awakening.Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good; Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull; and The Resilient C.O.: Neuroscience Informed Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals.
