How Yoga Makes Better CEOs And Revolutionizes Workplaces

New guidelines recommend patients with back pain try exercise, yoga, or massage before drug therapies.
New guidelines recommend patients with back pain try exercise, yoga, or massage before drug therapies.

How Yoga Makes Better CEOs And Revolutionizes Workplaces

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Stanton Kawer is an outspoken advocate for the benefits of Yoga in the workplace. He’s CEO and chairman of Chicago-based Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide. The United Nations invited him to speak at its 2017 International Day of Yoga celebrations. Stanton wrote a blog post on the topic for Forbes magazine titled, “Yoga Made Me a Better CEO.” Worldview asks Kawer why he says that “Yoga…has helped me become a better leader with its emphasis on focus, clarity of vision and developing a strong, positive community.”