Mindful Business Club HWZ
A club for genuine exchange rather than self-promotion
The new Mindful Business Club at HWZ is founded on something that has become rare in the fast-paced world of business: a protected space for honest exchange, fresh perspectives, and decisions with lasting impact. In this way, a community is formed for people who seek to think about business success not in narrower, but in broader terms. Mirjam Hasbi and Dr Hugo Bigi, the initiators of the Mindful Business Club, explain the idea behind it.
Campus · August 12, 2026
Business clubs often thrive on visibility, networking, and securing the next deal. The Mindful Business Club at HWZ deliberately takes a different approach: the focus is not on self-promotion, but on allowing questions for which there are no quick answers.
How can organisations remain high-performing without losing sight of the individual?
How can we make use of technological possibilities without relinquishing responsibility to systems?
And how do leaders make good decisions when efficiency, ethics and long-term impact do not automatically align?
The club brings together selected leaders, entrepreneurs, and those responsible for transformation, culture, sustainability, innovation, as well as people and organisation. In moderated roundtables, co-creation sessions, and personal encounters, experiences are not only shared but also developed further together. Members are not merely participants, but co-creators.
Dr Hugo Bigi, co-founder of the Mindful Business Club HWZ, sums up what makes this exchange particularly valuable:
We live in a time when knowledge is always available, yet genuine collective reflection is becoming increasingly rare. I am therefore less concerned with how we can become even faster, and more focused on how we can make better and more sustainable decisions. The Mindful Business Club is a place where leaders pause, broaden their perspectives, and work together to develop answers to tomorrow’s challenges. Sustainable decisions are seldom made alone; rather, they emerge through open and trusting dialogue with people who are willing to share their experiences and convictions.
From the Bhutan Impulse to Swiss Leadership Practice
The idea behind the club is linked to HWZ’s longstanding connection with Bhutan. The country has established Gross National Happiness as an alternative to purely economic models of success. At its core is the question of how economic development, social well-being and ecological responsibility can be considered together.
The Mindful Business Club does not simply transfer this perspective to Switzerland. Rather, it uses it as a productive stimulus: what can leaders learn when they step outside their familiar key figures, routines and patterns of thinking, even if only for a moment? It is precisely this shift in perspective that is intended to enable new, practically applicable approaches for businesses and organisations.
The crucial difference: Mindfulness is not regarded here as a personal wellness programme, but rather as a leadership and organisational competence. It enables clearer decision-making, more conscious use of technology, and sustainable business practices in the long term.
A network where impact is no matter of chance
At the club, HWZ acts as host, curator and initiator. Current insights from teaching, research and continuing education are brought together with specific questions from member organisations. Companies can contribute their own cases or projects and gain access to perspectives that are often lacking in day-to-day operations, including critical and unconventional viewpoints.
The added value does not come from the sheer number of contacts, but from the quality of the interactions. The club meets three to four times a year in deliberately dialogue-focused formats. This offering is complemented by selected events, connections to HWZ experts and research projects, as well as the opportunity to take part in the Bhutan Business Retreat.
For Mirjam Hasbi, co-founder of the Mindful Business Club HWZ, the impact is evident above all in one respect:
For me, the value of the Mindful Business Club is not measured by how many contacts are exchanged at the end, but by whether a conversation leads to a change in decision. In many professional contexts, we meet each other in our roles, presenting positions that are as fully formed as possible. In the club, there should also be space for what is unfinished: for doubts, areas of tension, and questions that cannot be resolved within a single meeting. If this leads to new clarity or the courage to take a different next step, then the meetings have achieved their purpose.
An invitation to those who do not wish to delegate responsibility
The Mindful Business Club is aimed at individuals who wish not only to lead their organisation successfully through change, but also to play an active and conscious role in shaping that change. It is intended for leaders who are prepared to question their own assumptions, share experiences openly, and work together to develop solutions that are both economically viable and socially responsible.
In this way, the club addresses a pressing issue of our time. As technologies increasingly prepare decisions and accelerate processes, the question of who sets the direction and on what basis becomes ever more important. The Mindful Business Club does not promise simple answers to this. However, it provides a space where the right questions are not lost between meetings.
Mindful Business Club HWZ: Membership at a Glance
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Interested in becoming a member?Admission is based on a personal interview with Dr Hugo Bigi and Mirjam Hasbi. Contact: mbc@fh-hwz.ch
Corporate Membership
For companies, organisations and institutions
Membership fee: on request
Active participation in shaping the club
Access to selected HWZ research projects and experts
Voting rights in the club
Up to three additional participants from the company at events
Participation in the Bhutan Business Retreat possible (separate costs)
MBC Friends
For individuals who wish to become part of the community
Membership fee: CHF 100 per year
Free participation in selected club events
Invitations to exclusive networking events
Newsletter with insights on Bhutan, mindfulness, leadership and business
Participation in individual Bhutan Experiences possible
Participation in the Bhutan Business Retreat is possible (additional costs apply)
CAS Building Mindful Organizations HWZ
Those wishing to explore the topics of the Mindful Business Club in greater depth and apply them within their own organisation will find the CAS Building Mindful Organizations HWZ to be the ideal further education programme. This CAS combines mindful leadership, sustainable organisational development, and entrepreneurial thinking. A distinctive feature is the five-day Bhutan Field Week, during which participants experience the concept of Gross National Happiness first-hand and relate it to their own leadership context.
