Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author and science journalist best known for bringing emotional intelligence to a general audience. After a Harvard doctorate in clinical psychology and study in India, he spent twelve years reporting on the brain and behavioural sciences for The New York Times, and his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence stayed on its best seller list for a year and a half and has been published in about forty languages. For education his most direct contribution is social and emotional learning: in 1993 he co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, whose mission is to bring the teaching of emotional skills into schooling from preschool to high school. He also applied the same ideas to the workplace and to leadership in Working with Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership, and has written on meditation, attention and ecological awareness.