Florbela Silva

Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Consultant

Florbela Silva is the founder and CEO of Estúdio da Alma, where she develops evidence-based mindfulness and emotional intelligence programmes for organisations, schools, and communities. Her work focuses on helping leaders and professionals recognise what is happening within them before stress takes over, so they can respond with greater clarity, regulation, and choice.

Before founding Estúdio da Alma in 2017, Florbela spent nearly two decades in international technology, consulting, and management roles, working across Europe, Brazil, the United States, and India. This experience gave her a practical understanding of organisational pressure, constant change, demanding environments, and the realities of leadership.

She holds a degree in Systems and Computer Engineering and an Executive MBA. She is trained to teach MBCT-L through the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, serves as Portugal National Coordinator for the The International Society for Emotional Intelligence, and lectures in executive education. She has also presented her work at international conferences on mindfulness and emotional intelligence.

Florbela combines scientific evidence, contemplative practice, and corporate experience to create learning experiences that are rigorous, practical, and human. Her programmes explore attention, emotional awareness, stress regulation, focus, self-compassion, communication, and leadership, helping people notice earlier, understand more clearly, and choose more wisely.