The 10th Annual One Mind at Work Global Forum

DAY 1
Newton Cheng

Newton Cheng is a husband and father, champion powerlifter, and previously served as Director of Health + Performance at Google. He models and teaches a unique performance-oriented approach to vulnerable leadership that he’s developed throughout his career. His goal is to break the stigma around mental health in the workplace and beyond so that we can achieve our most ambitious goals without sacrificing our ability to take care of ourselves and each other.

Drawing on his unique background at Google as well as his journey to becoming a world champion athlete, he has unique expertise in the intersections of health & wellbeing, and performance of individuals and teams. Despite still working as an executive at Google, Newton has openly shared about his struggles with mental health and burnout in order to model what it looks like to pierce the stigma around mental health.

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Newton has spent his 16-year career at Google developing, launching and scaling global programs aimed at helping Googlers to thrive. Today he oversees a global portfolio of Google’s physical and digital health & wellbeing amenities. He spends much of his time exploring how Google can leverage spaces and services, community, culture and technology to support the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of Googlers, their families, and our neighbors.

As a powerlifter, he has set multiple world, US, and California state records, and is a world and 8-time US national champion. Newton was born and raised in Macomb, IL.

He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

DAY 2
Dr. Monika Misra

Dr. Monika Misra is Global Head of Associate Health and Wellbeing at Mars Incorporated, an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services.

She is a family physician by background and a specialist in Occupational Medicine, which she has practiced within the public and corporate sectors, including the pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods and animal care services industries.

Dr. Misra’s experience includes setting global workplace wellbeing and mental health strategies and leading occupational health and wellbeing teams to operationalize these.

She has a strong passion for supporting leaders to enhance workplace culture and the employee experience, to create a positive environment for their people to thrive. She has her own business, coaching executives and their teams to maximise their performance, through enhancing their health and energy, in order to lead more fulfilling lives, both within and outside of work.

Her book, ‘Healthy High Performance’, addresses how leaders and organizations can achieve sustainable high-performance, through proven practical and tangible actions that prioritize holistic wellbeing.

Outside of work she enjoys gardening, yoga and spending time outdoors. She lives in London with her husband and two boys.