Brandon Nappi, D.Min., M.Div.
Dr. Brandon Nappi has over 20 years of experience as a spiritual teacher, guide, and mindfulness practitioner. He has been invited as a keynote speaker to share spiritual wisdom with Fortune 100 leaders, NFL and NBA coaches, elite athletes, artists, physicians, judges, and people from all walks of life. He has had numerous appearances on NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX.
Brandon is the founder of Copper Beech Institute, a global mindfulness community and training center which has shared research-based, life-saving wellness practices with over 50,000 people from over 50 countries. He has developed and facilitated conferences, workshops, and courses designed to tap into the capacity of the human spirit to thrive amid even the most heart-stretching challenges. Brandon is currently the Executive Director of Leadership Programs at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and is a lecturer at Yale Divinity School.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University. His doctoral research explored interreligious dialogue, mysticism, and Zen meditation as a healing practice within the history of spirituality. He has also received extensive mindfulness training from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness and Zen Mountain Monastery.
By drawing upon many of the world’s wisdom traditions and his own meditation practice, Brandon has supported thousands in their spiritual journey, and works with Privé-Swiss clients around issues of burnout, healing, relationship challenges, purpose, and resilience, helping them cultivate a spiritual life that supports joy, connection, meaning, and thriving.