Arun Sardana, MBA, MCP

Transformational Facilitator, Storyteller, Creative Visionary, and Founder/CEO of karuna & the Karuna Happiness Foundation. Arun’s journey of transformation began in India while growing up in a complex environment of not only a loving family and profound religiosity but also personal abuse and domestic violence. While his story may be different, the narrative is the same as that of many others. The stress and trauma of the early years continued to shape his adulthood including the constant pursuit of answers to existential questions – Why am I here? How can I find peace? How can science solve the puzzle of mental wellbeing? This journey ultimately culminated in the founding of karuna – the desire to remove suffering through unbound compassion. Arun obtained his undergraduate education in hospitality management and also in business administration in India. He came to the U.S. in 1988 and completed his MBA from Johns Hopkins University, in 2000. In 2019, in order to inform his work with orphans and abused children in Costa Rica, he completed a Masters's in Clinical Psychology and Education with a focus on Spirituality, Mind & Body, from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Over the past 25 years, Arun has built a successful entrepreneurial practice in financial services. It is through that success that karuna has become a reality.