Daniel Goleman lectures internationally to business audiences, professional groups and on college campuses. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.

Dr. Goleman's 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half, with more than 5 million copies in print worldwide. It has been a bestseller throughout the world and was translated into over 30 languages in more than 50 countries.

His 1998 book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, argues that workplace competencies based on emotional intelligence play a far greater role in star performance than do intellect or technical skill, and that both individuals and companies will benefit from cultivating these capabilities. It became an immediate New York Times bestseller.

Dr. Goleman's November/December 1998 article in the Harvard Business Review, “What Makes A Leader?,” received the highest reader ratings ever, becoming the best-selling reprint in the history of the Harvard Business Review. His follow-up article in the March/April 2000 issue of the Harvard Business Review, “Leadership That Gets Results,” became another bestselling reprint.

In March 2002 the release of Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, unveiled new scientific evidence demonstrating that a leader’s emotional intelligence has an enormous impact on the performance of groups being led and on an organization’s bottom line. Primal Leadership, co-written with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, was preceded by a related article by the three co-authors in the December 2001 issue of Harvard Business Review entitled “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance.”

In Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?, Dr. Goleman presented dialogues between the Dalai Lama and experts in Eastern philosophy and Western science on the topics of emotions and the prospects of enabling people to defuse fear, anger, and other destructive emotions before they trigger damaging behavior. His latest New York Times bestseller, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (September 2006), explores the groundbreaking neuroscience behind everyday interactions and what it means for success in life.

Dr. Goleman co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois, Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative’s impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs.

Dr. Goleman is co-chairman of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, which seeks to identify best practices for developing emotional competence.

He has received many journalistic awards for his writing, including two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The New York Times, and a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association. In recognition of his efforts to communicate the behavioral sciences to the public, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was recently ranked one of the top ten business intellectuals by the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change.

Born in Stockton, California, Dr. Goleman attended Amherst College, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and graduated magna cum laude. His graduate education was completed at Harvard, where he was a Ford Fellow, and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology and personality development. Dr. Goleman now lives in the Berkshires of Massachusetts with his wife Tara Bennett-Goleman, a psychotherapist. He has two grown sons and three granddaughters.