Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman (born 1946) is an American psychologist, author and science journalist who brought the idea of emotional intelligence to a mass audience. He grew up in Stockton, California, studied at Amherst College, and took a doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard, where David McClelland was his mentor. A pre-doctoral fellowship took him to India, and his first book, The Varieties of Meditative Experience (1977), compared almost a dozen meditation systems. He then reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for about twelve years, and his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence stayed on its best seller list for a year and a half and has been printed in 40 languages. He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, which promotes social and emotional learning in schools, and the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations.