Dr. Mario Simon is an author and executive coach to founders, CEOs, and leaders who have already built something real and are now asking what comes next.

Before coaching, he spent his career at the top of the business world. He was a Managing Director and Partner at BCG and served as CEO twice. He grew Kantar Consulting from a team of 12 into a firm of more than 1,000 people, taking revenue from $2 million to over $400 million in five years. He holds a PhD in behavioral economics from Yale and was a Fulbright Scholar. Alongside his business career, he has spent twenty years studying and practicing contemplative traditions and is a master meditator.

He is not a coach in any conventional sense. With more than 5,000 hours of coaching leaders, athletes, and high-profile individuals, he works where business performance meets the deeper personal work. That means the inner world that drives outward results, and the patterns that shape decisions, relationships, and legacy. He holds all of it: the business, the family, and the person underneath. He has lived it himself.

He is the author of Free You from You: The Path to Unshakable Presence (Amplify) and the creator of the Free You Framework™. It is a three-stage path from Grasping, to Giving, to Being: a shift from chasing achievement to leading with full presence.

Mario was born in Greece and lives on a farm in Pawling, New York, in the Hudson Valley.