Jeremy Hunter, PhD, is a global authority on mindfulness and leadership as well as the great-grandson of a sumo wrestler. He serves as the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute as well as associate professor of practice at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. He is also cofounder and partner of Transform LLC in Tokyo, Japan.

For nearly two decades, he has helped leaders develop themselves while retaining their humanity in the face of monumental change and challenge. His work explores how to live a meaningful, engaged, and effective life. He works with healthy companies that aspire to greatness. He has designed and led leadership development programs for a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 200 aerospace, Fortune 50 banking and finance, the public sector, the arts, and civic nonprofits in North America and Japan. Program impacts have led to both positive professional, personal, and financial outcomes for participants.

Hunter has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the Financial Times, the Nikkei Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.  

His work is informed by the experience of living day-to-day for 17 years with a potentially terminal illness. When faced with the need for life-saving surgery, more than a dozen former students came forward as organ donors.

He hosts the podcast Untaught Essentials and is coauthor of Transform Your Results: The Drucker School’s Self-Management Class (published in Japanese by President Publishing).

Dr. Hunter received his PhD from The University of Chicago. He also holds degrees from Harvard University and Wittenberg University.  

He and his family live in Los Angeles where they tend to the needs of a chatty housecat and happily drive across town for great Chinese dumplings.