Helping Leaders & Academics
Working towards a Sustainable Future
Make Clear, Purposeful Decisions
that Align with their Values
20+ years experience as a Psychology professor
Fully qualified professional coach
Have you ever?
- Woken up in the middle of the night, worrying about what to do next?
- Questioned your choices?
- Felt overwhelmed by competing priorities, unsure if you’re on the right path?
- Found yourself torn between urgent demands and your deeper values?
- Wondered why, even with all your accomplishments, something still feels off—like your work and life are out of sync?
- Thought, “There must be more to life than this,” but felt stuck on how to find it?
Imagine Instead…
- Feeling calm, confident, and grounded—knowing that you’re making decisions that matter.
- Trusting that your actions are fully aligned with your core values and long-term vision.
- Showing up as the leader and individual you want to be—standing tall for what you stand in.
- Watching your choices reflect the person you truly are, rather than reacting to external pressures.
- Seeing every part of your life—work, relationships, and personal goals—move in the same, purposeful direction.
Meet the Decision Coach
Hi, I am Jñānadāsa (Marc Bühner), a professor of cognitive psychology, an ICF accredited decision coach and ordained Buddhist.
I help leaders and academics make clear, confident choices that align with their values, so they can lead with clarity, purpose, and fulfilment—both professionally and personally..
My Approach
I bring a unique blend of analytical expertise and heartfelt guidance to the challenges you face. This approach is informed by:
- Award-Winning Cognitive Science: My research into how people perceive cause and effect has taught me the value of clarity, precision, and asking the right questions – skills that help illuminate what’s often hidden behind complex choices and decisions.
- Buddhist Practice & Perspective: My spiritual journey as an ordained Buddhist brings mindfulness, presence, and open-heartedness to the coaching space.
- Certified Leadership Coaching: My ICF-accredited coaching practice grounds everything in a proven, client-centered framework.
Together, we’ll create space to step back, reflect, and realign your choices so they serve both your values and vision.
How I can help you
Through my coaching you will:
- Gain clarity on what truly matters to you (not just what others expect or what feels urgent).
- Resolve inner conflicts—such as competing goals or misaligned values—so you can move forward with confidence.
- Navigate uncertainty with purpose, turning overwhelm into decisive, intentional action.
- Build practical tools, like personalized frameworks for decision-making, to ensure every choice reflects who you are and what you stand for.
This isn’t about “fixing” you — you already have the answers inside you. My job is to help you uncover them, translate them into action, and sustain that clarity over time.
Let’s Get Started
If this resonates, why not join me for a no-strings-attached free discovery call? We’ll explore how coaching can help you move from reactive to intentional leadership, align with your purpose, and thrive in all areas of life.
Lisa Vanhalla
, UCL (University College London),
I’ve been working with Marc for the last year to enhance my senior leadership practice at UCL. He has played a pivotal role in helping me to navigate the inherent challenges of university leadership in today’s complex environment. We have worked together on ensuring that I am taking a values-driven approach to my work and he has enhanced my ability to effectively manage a team and to deliver a five-year, multi-million pound strategic programme. His semi-structured, supportive approach has struck exactly the right balance of holding space and holding me to account. I could recommend him more highly as a coach for those sitting at a critical juncture in their higher education leadership trajectories.
Sam Balch
, UCL,
I really benefitted from Marc’s executive coaching as I took on a new role at UCL heading up our Grand Challenges programme. This was a critical moment for me in a new working environment, and we used it as a chance to focus on goals, framing, and making effective decisions. Marc helped me to focus on the things that really mattered, and help ensure our flagship challenge-led, interdisciplinary research programme is set up for success. I would definitely recommend him to others.
Henry Easterbrook
, Figpower,
Working with Marc has been a privilege and facilitated a step change in my view of the world. I had planned find a coach from the business world, someone who’d been there and done it themselves, but what’s benefitted me most is the alternative perspective Marc brings. His career as a psychology professor specialising in decision analysis, combined with his spiritual side, is what’s really helped challenge and evolve my values, goals and how I view the world. In a world increasingly dominated by automation and computational decision making, there is enormous value to be realised by gaining a deeper understanding of human centric decision analysis, in a way only an experienced cognitive scientist like Marc can do. I would recommend working with Marc to anyone looking to make sense of their world and find greater clarity in the role they play in it.
Danny H
,
Marc is the real deal. He is a natural coach who took a genuine interest in what I had to say. He listened deeply, fed back what I had said to check in if he understood and then asked incisive questions which really helped me to get clear on where I was going and how I could get there. He had a great way of getting me to dig deeper into resources I didn’t know I had which opened up so many more possibilities. I left the sessions feeling inspired and eager to get on with whatever actions I had committed to.
Highly recommended
Justin T.
,
These coaching sessions have been invaluable to my growth and development and were a catalyst to a profund reallization that has literally changed my life. They ended up benefitting me in more ways than I could ever imagine. Marc helped me dive deep into myself which allowed me understand my actions, values and motivations more clearly which brought upon a huge a-ha moment for me. (…) The work Marc had me do has benefitted me more than I can express. I cant recommend him enough. Thank you so much Marc, it’s because of you my life has literally changed in ways I cant even begin to fully articulate.
Download the FREE eBook
What makes some decisions so difficult?
… And what You can do about it
