Clif Smith

Clif Smith is an accomplished former intelligence officer, and currently a global consultant and author of Mindfulness Without The Bells and Beads. He is EY (formerly Ernst and Young) Americas Mindfulness Leader, and Global Mindfulness Network Leader, and is responsible for scaling mindfulness programs across the firm and with select clients.

Clif is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher; a certified teacher for Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI); and an ICF certified executive coach; with a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University and Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Clif’s experience in the private sector is preceded by 17 years in the US Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and broader Intelligence Community, where he served as an intelligence officer managing and carrying out signals intelligence, as well clandestine and overt human intelligence collection operations around the globe including deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.