Dr. Jeffrey Overall (BComm (Hons), MBA, Ph.D) is a professor of conscious economics and entrepreneurship. His expertise is on: mental health, optimum performance, consciousness expansion, sustainability, and entrepreneurial and organizational success and failure. He has been investigating the role of mental health in the workplace for over a dozen years. He has nearly 50 publications with 25 of these in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is the author of Capitalist Buddha: Waking up to Conscious Economics.

He has over 25 years of experience working directly with entrepreneurs within start-ups, incubators, and SMEs across various sectors. He is the president and co-founder of the Global Institute for Conscious Economics – a forum dedicated to awakening business leaders to the benefits of consciousness. He has consulted on various research projects including: the Government of Canada through the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, the National Health Service in Britain, The Boston Consulting Group, The University of Bradford School of Management, the Samadhi Centre, among others.

Dr. Overall first became a university professor at 30 years old. He has been an academic for over a decade. He was a tenured professor at Ontario Tech University in Canada. Before that, he held professorships at Nipissing University in Canada, Ryerson University in Canada, and Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. He taught at the St. Petersburg Polytechinical University in Russia and the University of Bradford School of Management in Britain.

Dr. Overall is passionate about travel. He has lived, worked, and travelled in 36 countries. He completed the Camino de Santiago, an ancient spiritual pilgrimage that involves walking nearly 800 KMs across parts of France and Spain. He has walked a portion of the Via Francigena, another spiritual pilgrimage, through 350 KMs of Italy. He trekked extensively through the Himalayan ranges of Nepal where he became passionate about the Tibetan cause.