Veronique Cardon

Veronique Cardon has a true passion for helping people live healthy lives. She practices what she preaches, maintaining a 30-pound weight loss for the past 13 years. She left her corporate career and created The CogniDiet® Programs in 2014 to help women (and men) lose weight for good via three pillars of education:

1. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles based on the fact that changing one's thoughts changes one's behaviors and neuroplasticity, which helps eliminate ingrained unhealthy pathways in the brain and rewire with new, healthier pathways
2. Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) as stress is a major root for weight gain
3. Education about the benefits of healthy nutrition and exercise

The program is available online, in person in Princeton, NJ, and via a book, Weight Loss Starts in Your Brain, published on Amazon.com in January.

In 2016, she conducted a 12-week clinical trial with 40 women, average age 56. They lost an average of 12 pounds (maximum 33 pounds). Top-line results were presented at the American College of Nutrition Conference in November 2017. Weight loss is confirmed after six months, and the one-year data analysis is underway.

She sits on the Board of Trustees of The Suppers Programs, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching people to eat and cook together to live a healthy life. She has over 20 years of experience working in the healthcare industry.

Cardon holds a combined engineering/MBA degree, magna cum laude, from the Free University of Brussels. She attended executive leadership programs at the Harvard Business School and INSEAD Business School in France. In 2006, she graduated from The Clayton College of Natural Health with a master in science of holistic nutrition degree, magna cum laude. She obtained a certificate of training from the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, in 2013.