Ben Van Den Assem, MSW, MPA, MBA, LLM, MM, MSc, PhD, DBA, PhD, is a qualified coach, consultant and researcher. He has held executive positions in criminal justice with the government of Canada and in the regulation of the health professions in Vancouver and Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.
During the past 15 years, he has researched and published in the areas of the patient-doctor relationship and the development of mindfulness in coaching at Henley Business School, from which he holds an MSc in coaching and behavioural change and a PhD in management, the focus of which is the development of mindfulness in coaching.