Dan Baker, Ph.D.
About Dan
- Family Business Consulting for 20 years
- Organizational Consultant to family and general businesses
- Certified Exectuvie Coach for 20 years
- Educational and public speaking
- Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska
- Post Doctoral Fellow in Medical Psychology with a specialty in Stress and Cardiovascular functioning
- Served full-time tenured position at the University of Nebraska Medical College departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics from 1973-1983
- The National Center for Preventative and Stress Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona, 1984-1986
- Canyon Ranch Health Resort, Tucson, Arizona. 1986-2006
- Founding director of the Health & Healing Center
- Founding Director of the Life Enhancement Center
- Founding Partner of Healthy Families in Business
- A pioneer in the study of Positive Psychology -the study of strengths, values and virtues; the study of what's right with human beings and their organizations.
- Author of three books:
- What Happy People Know (Rodale Press)
- What Happy Companies Know (Prentice Hall)
- What Happy Women Know (Rodale Press)