ADP #10 Chade-Meng Tan - From Googler to the democratization of enlightenment
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Chade-Meng Tan is an award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader, a movie producer, and a philanthropist whose work has received eight nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Meng was one of Google’s earliest engineers. He retired from Google in 2015, at the age of 45. He helped build Google’s first mobile search service, headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google’s search quality, and was a founding member of Google’s Chinese Search team. After a successful eight-year stint in Engineering, Meng became the first practicing engineer in Google’s history to move from Engineering to People Operations. His job description was, “Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace”.
Meng led the creation of a groundbreaking mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course at Google called Search Inside Yourself, which was featured on the front page of the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. Search Inside Yourself is also the title of Meng’s first New York Times bestselling book which has been endorsed by world leaders such as President Carter of the United States and President Nathan of Singapore, business leaders such as Eric Schmidt of Google and John Mackey of Whole Foods Markets, and spiritual leaders such as the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra.
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