Zen Roshi · Author · Founder of DojoX
Private leadership training for founders and CEOs, whether you are scaling, preparing to exit, or have already sold and are asking what the next chapter is for. Clarity, steadiness and vision, without trading away your health, your family or yourself.
“Tony is one of the most passionate men I've ever met in personal transformation. He unlocked something powerful within myself, my business, and my relationships.”
Watch: Train for Your Next Season · 2 min
Dharma name: Seijaku Issan
Two lineages, one path
Tony Bonnici grew up in a Zen temple, the son of two Zen priests. He sat before he could explain why, and trained on the Judo mat until discipline lived in his body. In April 2026 he was ordained a Roshi, and he now teaches in the Soto Zen tradition.
He opened his first business at nineteen. Over thirty years he built seven companies across California and Hawaii, and learned what most leadership books leave out: how pressure moves through the body, the marriage and the mind of the person at the top.
Most coaches teach leadership from theory. Most meditation teachers have never carried a company through a hard quarter. Tony works from both, which is why founders trust him with the parts of leadership they rarely say out loud.
Read Tony's full storyResponsibility stacks. Bandwidth narrows. Long-term thinking gives way to whatever is on fire today. Sleep shortens, health gets postponed, and work follows you home.
This is not burnout and it is not failure. It is what happens to capable people who were never trained for the weight they now carry. The Dojo is that training.
Wherever you are in the arc
The company is growing faster than you can recover. Train the clarity and steadiness to carry it without losing the rest of your life.
The deal is in sight, and the question of who you are without the company is getting louder. Make the biggest decisions of your career from clarity, not fatigue.
The company is sold or you have stepped back. The calendar is open and the old drive has nowhere to go. Train for a next chapter built on purpose, presence and legacy.
The Dojo
Integrated Leadership rests on four pillars. Each is practiced deliberately, the way a martial artist trains a form, until it holds under pressure.
I · CLARITY
Attention and self-honesty. See clearly, name the pattern, and decide without distortion or reactivity.
II · PERSPECTIVE
Long-range vision. Hold the future clearly, align priorities, and see systems instead of symptoms.
III · DISCIPLINE
Consistency and execution. Build the structure that lets you act decisively, especially under pressure.
IV · INTEGRATION
Embodied leadership. What you practice inside shows up in your presence, your integrity and the people you develop.
Private leadership training
Tony accepts a small number of private clients. The work is personal and direct: your company, your relationships, your body and your practice, held together as one life instead of competing demands.
This is not coaching for beginners. It is training for leaders already operating at scale.
This work is for you if
You are a founder, CEO or senior leader carrying real responsibility.
Success has arrived, and you sense there is another level of depth.
You are preparing to exit, or have already sold, and want your next chapter to mean something.
You lead with a nonlinear or neurodivergent mind and want to use it well.
You want your next season built on truth, not performance.
Client results
Real leaders, in their own words, from their work with Tony.
Former Wall Street executive, now building his own family office
BEFORE He had everything on paper and still felt empty inside. He knew there was more to life, and he refused to stay safe in corporate and let it pass him by.
NOW Building on his own terms, sitting every morning, passing on deals that are not his to do, and leading from who he is rather than what he can win.
“I'm not chasing anymore. I feel like I'm finally starting to get life.”
Macro investor and founder of Macrovo
BEFORE In survival mode, doing everything alone and gripping every outcome.
NOW Built a team he trusts, stepped back to the founder's seat so the company came alive, and put his family first.
“It doesn't feel like work. It's play.”
CEO and founder of consumer brands
BEFORE Running on adrenaline and anxiety, carrying every problem himself while a long business storm built.
NOW Clear boundaries, clean agreements and no reaction when triggered. His problems are still real, but no longer existential.
“Not making a decision is the most wrong you can be.”
Founder, Still & Moving Center · twelve years with Tony
BEFORE Carrying her center on her own shoulders, unsure it could outlast her.
NOW Handed the daily work to two directors, founded a meditation fellowship, and holds a vision that runs seventy five years.
“It's not just the vision, it's having the people who will be able to help maintain it.”
Speaking and podcasts
Tony speaks to founders, executive teams and leadership communities on stage, on podcasts and at retreats, usually with the room sitting in silence before he says a word about strategy.
Watch: Tony Bonnici speaking reel · 1:48
Mastering OverwhelmThe Integrated Entrepreneur Trauma Hiders ClubEntering the Dojo The Happiness DisciplineVision, Manifestation and Legacy“Tony has encouraged me to not only focus on growing my business and legacy but to not lose sight of my relationships, spiritual practice, and self care.”
“The kind of discipline and concentration paid dividends in all the other areas of my life.”
Watch: What It Means to Sit in Sangha · 2 min
DojoX Meditation Sangha
Sangha is the Zen word for a community that practices together. Ours meets online every Tuesday and is open to everyone, whether you have never meditated or have sat for years.
Each session is a twenty minute sit, a short teaching from Roshi Tony, then a final ten minute sit. No experience needed. No performance, no fixing.
Tuesdays, 6:30pm Hawaii
8:30pm Pacific (9:30pm in summer) · Online, free
Free: the Meditation Manual
Get the DojoX Meditation Manual, a practical guide to building a daily sit, written for leaders under pressure. You will also receive Stillness Before Strategy, the weekly letter: one short teaching from Roshi Tony each Tuesday, with a practice for your week and the link to that night's online meditation.
Recent teachings
Coming soon · The new book
How Visionary Leaders Build Their Next Chapter Without Leaving Their Life Behind
Tony never wanted to be a Roshi. He wanted to build. After thirty years and seven companies, he was ordained a Roshi and discovered that nothing had to be left behind. This book is for founders and leaders still in the thick of it, and for those on the far side of a sale, who want to create what comes next from a settled place, with their whole life coming with them.
“The vision is a place to come from, not a place to get to.”
Available now · The first book
The Dojo: The Ancient Wisdom of Integrative Leadership for the Modern Entrepreneur
The four pillars and the story behind them, written over six and a half years by a dyslexic author who refused to let the vision go.