and Accenture Institute for Strategic Change
have listed Goleman among the most influential
business thinkers.
In addition to his books on emotional
intelligence, Goleman has written books
on topics including self-deception, creativity,
transparency, meditation, social and emotional
learning, eco-literacy and the ecological crisis.
Goleman is a co-founder of the
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
Emotional Learning (casel.org). Originally
at the Yale Child Studies Center, it is now at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and is
focused on bringing evidence-based programs
in emotional literacy to schools worldwide. He
also co-directs the Consortium for Research
on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
(eiconsortium.org) at Rutgers University. The
consortium fosters research partnerships between
academic scholars and practitioners on the role
emotional intelligence plays in excellence.
Goleman is a board member of the Mind
& Life Institute, which fosters dialogues and
research collaborations among contemplative
practitioners and scientists. He has organized
a series of intensive conversations between the
Dalai Lama and scientists, which resulted in the books “Healthy
Emotions” and “Destructive Emotion.”
His most recent book, “Leadership: The Power of Emotional
Intelligence”, offers an up-to-date summary of his thinking on
leadership by collecting key excerpts from his books together for
the first time in one volume with his articles from the Harvard
Business Review. These include “What Makes a
Leader? and “Leadership that Gets Results.”
Goleman’s other recent book, “The Brain and
Emotional Intelligence: New Insights” gathers
together recent findings from brain research and
other sources on topics ranging from creativity and
optimal performance, the brain-to-brain connection
in leadership, and to how to enhance emotional intelligence itself.
Goleman’s work as a science journalist has been recognized
with many awards, including the Washburn Award for science
journalism, a Lifetime Career Award from the American
Psychological Association, and he was made a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science in
recognition of his communicating science to the general public.
And while he appreciates the accolades, he is spending “less
time running around and more time just being,” he says. “My wife
Tara and I try to spend a good deal of our free time at meditation
retreats or traveling together to places we enjoy that nourish
this side of our lives. Life’s simple pleasures—a walk on a beach,
playing with grandchildren, a good conversation with a friend—
have more appeal to me than professional honors or ambitions.”Daniel Goleman
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D
aniel Goleman, Ph.D. is an internationally known psychologist
who lectures frequently to professional groups, business
audiences, and on college campuses. As a science journalist,
Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences
for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book,
“Emotional Intelligence” was on The New York Times bestseller list
for a year-and-a-half, with more than 5,000,000 copies
in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best
seller in many countries.
The son of college professors—his father taught in
the humanities, while his mother was a social worker
who taught sociology—Goleman started out as an
anthropology major at the University of California,
Berkeley, and went on to study clinical psychology at Harvard.
“I was drawn to the idea of studying the human mind from an
interdisciplinary perspective,” he says.
After graduating, he studied ancient systems of psychology in
India and Sri Lanka, and wrote his first book, “The Meditative Mind,”
summarizing his research on meditation. Goleman returned to Harvard
as a guest lecturer on the psychology of consciousness, and was then
offered a job at Psychology Today. In 1984, he was recruited by The
New York Times, where he spent 12 years as a science journalist. It was
during this time that he ended up writing the book that put him on the
map as one of the world’s foremost experts on emotional intelligence.
The Harvard Business Review called “Emotional Intelligence:
Why it Can Matter More Than IQ” a “revolutionary, paradigm-
shattering idea” and chose his article “What Makes a Leader” as one
of 10 “must-read” articles from its pages. “Emotional Intelligence” was
named one of the 25 “Most Influential Business Management Books”
by TIME Magazine, and The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal,DANIEL
GOLEMAN
By // Michelle Jacoby“I was drawn to the
idea of studying the
human mind from
an interdisciplinary
perspective.”