Bruce McClelland
Bruce is co-founder and lead teacher for The Mindful Work Initiative. He is often described as warm, down to earth, and enthusiastic in his desire to help people awaken to the power of their own goodness. Bruce has a gift for instilling the gentleness with self that is necessary for students as they embark on the path of mindfulness and awareness. His sense of humor cuts across barriers and builds rapport to transcend differences of age, education, ethnicity or experience. He delights in assisting others as they begin to appreciate the workability of their own minds and the flourishing of their own personal wisdom and empathy.
Bruce has been a student of mindfulness meditation, a centuries-old system of training, for over forty years. He has participated as both a student and a teacher in hundreds of meditation classes and training sessions in Washington D.C., Boston, Montreal, and the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire. He currently teaches mindfulness training at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, for students, faculty and staff. He also teaches mindfulness for Information Technologies & Consulting at Dartmouth.
In his early career, Bruce studied theater and movement Paris, France, under Etienne Decroux, the theater master of the great mime, Marcel Marceau. He went on to found and direct theater companies and schools in Boston and Montreal and worked as a professional model for many years. Bruce worked at Dartmouth College as a senior business analyst/project manager in Information Technologies & Consulting from 2002-2020. Prior to Dartmouth, he worked for Datatel Inc. (now Ellucian) in Fairfax, Virginia in the field of software consulting and adult education, helping to develop classes based on innovations in adult learning.
Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Carole Gaudet
Carole is co-founder and program manager for The Mindful Work Initiative. She also served as program manager with Meditative Movement Health Studies at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She has been a student of meditation since 2004.
Carole is a lawyer and a seasoned communications and marketing professional. She has led strategy, branding, marketing and thought leadership for clients such as Kelliher Samets Volk, McKinsey, and Northern Power. She has worked extensively in clean energy, clean technology, sustainability and social impact, helping to create brand identity and web user experiences. She spent five years at the Tuck School of Business, where she led marketing and communications for a social impact research center, coached students, and worked with nonprofit leaders throughout the Upper Valley. While at Tuck, Carole and Bruce developed a year-long, extra-curricular course of mindfulness training for MBA students, faculty and staff.
Carole is known for her positivity, insatiable curiosity, and loyalty to the Oxford comma. She loves children’s literature, reads voraciously, and is always ready to talk about books. She holds a BA from Smith College, a JD from Northwestern University, and a master’s degree in environmental law from Vermont Law School. She and Bruce are the parents of two children. They live in Woodstock, Vermont.