Parneet Pal, M.B.B.S., M.S. is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained physician working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine and behavior change.
As an educator and science communicator, she applies her expertise to optimize human health & performance, and its impact on business leadership and planetary wellbeing.
She works with global organizations (such as LinkedIn, General Electric, EQT Group, Intuit, Merck, UN Capital Development Fund) to address workplace performance, sustainability, stress, burnout and loneliness, using evidence-based strategies from lifestyle medicine, neuroscience, behavior change and psychology.
Previously, she designed wellbeing programs for Executive Health (most recently at the University of California, San Francisco) and led faculty, curriculum and content development as the Chief Science Officer of a health start-up scaling corporate mental wellbeing.
Parneet speaks about the connections between Health, Leadership and Climate/Sustainability at Fortune 500 companies, business schools (including Harvard, Stanford and Columbia) and global conferences including TEDCountdown (Edinburgh), Web Summit (Lisbon), Slush (Helsinki), Leade.rs (Paris), The Next Web (Amsterdam), Tech Open Air (Berlin), WELCOA (Wellness Council of America), Wisdom 2.0 (San Francisco), ACLM (American College of Lifestyle Medicine) and Singularity University.
She has been a TEDMED scholar; podcast host at Wise@Work podcast; writer and presenter of The Science of Wellbeing at Work video series; Harvard Business Review contributor and has been featured on the cover of Mindful magazine.
In addition to her medical training, she holds a Masters in Exercise and Movement Science from the University of Oregon. Her decades-long meditation and mindfulness practice is key to her personal wellbeing.
She strongly believes we can create a compassionate, equitable society where health is the default.