Category Archives: Scholarchs
Pernille Spiers-Lopez
May 07, 2016
Pernille Spiers-Lopez is an international business leader with over twenty years executive experience with a unique focus on developing both business and personal growth. Among several top executive positions, Pernille has held the position as President and CEO for IKEA North America, global Chief HR Officer, and was a member of the executive management team of the IKEA Group for ten years. Pernille left IKEA in 2011 after commuting between Chicago and Europe for more than two years. Without a plan B, She then took a year off to learn to do nothing and take the time to figure out what.....read more
Scholarchs: Dr. David Bach
January 11, 2016
Dr. Bach is a Harvard-trained scientist, physician, and serial entrepreneur who has started and built three $100 million companies. He has also been a competitive martial artist and a professional cellist. After a decade-long quest to maximize his own physical and mental performance, Dr. Bach founded The Platypus Institute with two objectives: to bring scientific rigor to the rapidly growing field of human performance optimization, and to help others embrace and benefit from his findings. Using cutting-edge neuroscience, he counsels athletes, business professionals, and top executives to.....read more
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum
March 13, 2015
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum holds an advanced degree in Applied Psychology and is the founder and director of Education for Excellence, an organization dedicated to enhancing the positive development of children through parent and teacher education and empowerment.  For the past 23 years, as a way of forwarding those visions, Education for Excellence has presented social/emotional learning programs to more than 5000 New York City, California and Colombia South American parents and teachers. His books, Masterful Parenting --The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, El Arte de Ser Padres and.....read more
Diane Lang
January 15, 2015
Diane Lang is a Therapist, Educator and Positive Psychology Life Coach. She is on a mission to help people develop a sustainable positive attitude that can literally turn you into an optimist. Her clinical experience includes treating patients with different forms of mental illness, physical and emotional abuse and relationship issues.  Lang is also an Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Montclair State University; her college work includes mentoring students for individual career counseling and personal issue advisement. As an expert in her fields of therapy, Lang has been featured.....read more
Marva Allen
August 07, 2014
Marva Allen is a noted book expert and author of two acclaimed books, Protegee (1993) and Camouflage (2000) the sequel. Her latest novel, If I Should Die Tonight … will be published by Simon and Schuster in the Fall of 2016. Allen has been the "go to" person for books for NPR, NBC and is the on-air book contributor and commentator for Arise TV. As a partner in the imprint Open Lens, she is the publisher of the acclaimed Makeda from Randall Robinson, The Roving Tree from Haitian author Elsie Agustave, and has expertise on all sides of the publishing industry. She has.....read more
Samuel Salazar
August 04, 2014
The one-of-a-kind class will be lead by the great Venezuelan dance master, Samuel Salazar. Sam is a Zumba Fitness instructor at the world renowned ALVIN AILEY Dance Center in New York City. His classes are attended by numerous celebrities including Beyonce Knowles and her sister Solange. He travels the world presenting Zumba Fitness Master Classes and Jam Sessions to Zumba Instructors. In the summer of 2012 Sam was invited as a guest instructor to lead the warm-up for the Guinness Book of World Record’s largest Zumba Fitness class in Budapest, Hungary. The class broke the world record.....read more
POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH, Ph.D.,
August 04, 2014
The workshop will be lead by POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH, Ph.D., author of 15 books, including The Self-Esteem Trap, The Resilient Spirit, and Women and Desire.  Polly is also a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont. She is a frequent speaker and facilitator at conferences, a teacher of mindfulness, and maintains a clinical and consulting practice in central Vermont. Her most recent book, The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery is an unsentimental meditation on the healing power of love in the face of.....read more
Shirley F Moulton
June 25, 2014
Shirley Moulton, a serial entrepreneur, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, was born in Jamaica, W.I. and now lives in New York City. After 22 years as CEO of a technology firm, she decided to follow a vastly different path, one more consistent with her passion and purpose. Moulton passionately believes that our lives can be lived as masterpieces of joy and that there is no work more important than the inner personal development and the mental and emotional well-being of a human being. She is currently working on a book: “Survival of the Happiest: A Guide to Becoming.....read more
Dr. Orin Davis
June 24, 2014
Orin Davis is the first person to earn a doctorate in Positive Psychology, in which he was advised by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura in the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University. He wrote his dissertation on microflow, and also conducted research on hypnosis, mentoring, creativity, and team flow. Orin did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, where he majored in Neuroscience and Psychology, and wrote his thesis on paired-associate memory in the Computational Memory Lab with Michael Kahana. He is an Adjunct Professor and.....read more
Jenny Douglas
May 16, 2014
Jenny, a life-long learner and seeker, is the founder and curator of The Brooklyn Cottage, an incubator and lab for unleashing our most wildly creative and unafraid selves--in the presence of each other. Divorced five years ago, Jenny lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn with her two teen daughters and their dog and cat. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of.....read more
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