Since 1999 I have been affiliated with the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, where I teach in the Executive Management and MBA programs and have been voted Professor of the Year by students in both courses.
My work is informed by the experience of living day-to-day for 17 years with a potentially terminal illness, and when faced with the need for life-saving surgery having more than a dozen former students come forward as organ donors.
I created and still teach The Practice of Self-Management and The Executive Mind, a series of challenging and transformative executive education programs dedicated to managing oneself. These courses were among the first to introduce mindfulness practice (a rigorous form of mental discipline) as well as attention training and emotional management in a management context. They incorporate state-of-the art findings in neuroscience, psychology, medicine and the arts.
Other activities include:
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active involvement in the civic leadership programs of the Southern California Leadership Network as a Senior Curriculum Fellow, teaching The Internal Dynamics of Leadership to give leaders the inner skills needed to deal with life’s challenges;
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co-founding CoreWorks Consulting with Scott Scherer, a partnership dedicated to helping clients work and live well;
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serving as part of the executive coaching team with Corporate Coaching International, co-founded by Lois Frankel author of the bestselling books Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office;
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serving from 1999-2004 as Research Director of the Quality of Life Research Center which I co-founded with Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at the Drucker School of Management.
My formal schooling includes a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. I also have more than twenty years’ experience with Asian contemplative practices which deeply inform my work.
I consult internationally, speak Japanese, obsess about modern architecture, love to eat, and live in Los Angeles.
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