Speakers: Nexus EQ -- International Emotional Intelligence Conference

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Education

John Avella MA, Ed.D. (abd) :: Partner, EQ International Perspectives; former VP of Human Resources, The Marriott Corporation (US). :: Teaching Customer Service People to be Emotionally Competent to Develop Customer Loyalty. (Details)

Travis Bradberry, Ph.D. :: Dr. Bradberry is the President and cofounder of TalentSmart®, a leading provider of emotional intelligence tests, products, and training. :: Measuring and Developing Emotional Intelligence: The State of the Art (Details)

Lea Brovedani :: Emotional intelligence speaker, consultant, and author; co-chair of the 2003 NexusEQ Conference (Canada). :: Creating Engaged High Impact Teams Through Sustainable Leadership. (Details)

Madeleine Duclos :: Business trainer specializing in NLP, NVC, and organizational constellations; Director of FlowChange (Switzerland). :: Leadership Through Appreciation (Details)

Massimiliano Ghini, MBA :: Professor of human resources management at Profingest Business School of Bologna, consultant of organizational development, and President of Six Seconds Italia. (Italy). :: Assessing and Developing EQ in Italy. (Details)

Frances Johnston, Ph.D. :: Co-Chair of the Teleos Leadership Institute, an international consulting firm serving leaders around the world (US). :: The Practice of Resonant Leadership: Managing the Cycle of Sacrifice and Renewal (Details)

Annie McKee, Ph.D. :: McKee is a leader of leaders; Co-Chair of the Teleos Leadership Institute, and co-author with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis of Primal Leadership. She works closely with senior management teams at international firms such as Merrill Lynch, UniCredit Banca, HSBC, Motorola, the United Nations Development Programme and Unilever -- bringing EI into everyday practice with concrete initiatives. She has co-authored another book on leadership, to be published in Autumn 2005 with Harvard Business School Press. (US). :: Leadership, Passion, and Power: EI, Resonance, and Renewal (Details)

Patrick Merlevede, M.Sc. :: Director of R&D at jobEQ.com and author of 7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence (Belgium). :: Coaching & Mentoring with Emotional Intelligence. (Details)

David Rosete :: Director of Organisational Development (OCTC) for the Australian Taxation Office (Australia). :: A Leaders Edge - What Attributes Make an Effective Leader? (Details)

Julia Shumelda, DC :: Certified Master Trainer in both Emotional Intelligence and Resiliency for Essi Systems specializing in psychoneurobiology (USA). :: The Neurologic Imperative of Emotional Intelligence and the Embodiment of Leadership (Details)

Andy Smith :: EQ coach and NLP trainer; author 55 Ways To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence (UK). :: Practical EQ: Effective Tools for Self-Management. (Details)

Dick Thompson, Ph.D. and Grenae Thompson :: Researcher, Co-founders of High Performing Systems, Inc., an international management consulting firm (US). :: Leading In A Stressful World: The Impact of Stress on Emotional Competencies. (Details)

Pieter van Jaarsveld, Ph.D. :: Registered Psychologist, lecturer, Managing Director of Tandem Training (Leadership development consultants); author of “Heart of a Winner: Developing your Emotional Intelligence” (South Africa). :: Managing the Heat of the Heart. (Details)

Stephanie Vermeulen :: Stephanie Vermeulen is one of South Africa's leading EQ business consultants and author of Emotional Intelligence for Everyone. She is an author, entrepreneur, and social advocate adapting EQ to the South African context (South Africa). :: From Reason to Relations: Managing the Emotional Economy (Details)

Chuck Wolfe :: Chuck Wolfe is a business consultant who has demonstrated the workplace value of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso model in a range of effective training and development projects (US). :: New Pathways to Emotionally Intelligent Performance Discussions. (Details)

Geetu Bharwaney (Orme) :: Author of Emotionally Intelligent Living and Founder of Ei World, Geetu develops and delivers powerful EI programs with measurable results (UK). :: Implementing large-scale Ei programmes in a variety of contexts (corporate, healthcare, educational) (Details)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D :: Associate Director of the Health, Emotions, and Behavior Laboratory at Yale University, coauthor of the new curriculum: Voices of the Children: Unleashing Emotional Literacy (US). :: A Vision For An Emotionally Intelligent Education. (Details)

Catherine Corrie :: A lifelong an educator, Catherine helps people see their own power and potential to create a more caring world for children and adults with practical exercises and life-changing questions (UK). :: Peace in the “Playground” (Details)

Veronica de Andres, MA :: Trainer and motivational speaker in self-esteem in more than a dozen countries. Founding director of the SEAL organization in Argentina. Executive Committee member of the International Council for Self-Esteem (Argentina). :: From Fear to Love (Details)

Michiel Dhont :: Experiential educator and author of The Timeless Hour (Netherlands). :: 'Learning by doing' with Heart / Head & Hands. (Details)

Petrusa du Toit, Ph.D. :: Associate Prof in Education, in Faculty of Education Sciences, at Northwest University (South Africa). :: Teachers' EQ Tool in Preventing Scholastic Failure. (Details)

Carmen Fonseca, Ph.D. :: Senior researcher and lecturer at University of Huelva, Spain; Leader of the Spanish research group "Affective factors in the teaching of English." :: Emotional Intelligence Promoting Secondary Students (Details)

Annie Hamlaoui :: Educator and Emotional Literacy Co-ordinator (UK). :: 'SISTERS' - Feeling Good on the Inside - Looking Good on the Outside. (Details)

Johan Hamstra :: Trainer, coach, and consultant in primary and secondary education for APS working with primary and secondary schools (Netherlands). :: Fighting and Emotional Intelligence. (Details)

Deborah Williams Havert :: Emotional intelligence consultant, coach, composer, playwright, and former drama teacher, Deborah works with adults and children in their exploration of EQ competencies (US). :: The Theater of EQ. (Details)

Eva Hoffman, Ph.D. :: Co-founder Inspired Learning educational consultancy; trainer for teachers, parents, and children; author of The Learning Adventure (UK). :: Words Matter. (Details)

Anabel Jensen, Ph.D. :: Dr. Anabel Jensen is pioneering educator teaching social-emotional skills for over 30 years. A two-time Federal Blue Ribbon award winner and the author of four books on teaching and learning EQ, she has taught over 10,000 educators around the world (US). :: Learning With Love: Three Steps to the Emotionally Intelligent Classroom (Details)

Ansie Kitching, Med Psyc. :: Registered Educational Psychologist; Lecturer in Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, at Northwest University (South Africa). :: Developing Emotional Intelligence in Pre-service Teacher Training. (Details)

Hermanto Kosasih :: Founder and director of Prime Consulting, focused on EI development programs (Indonesia). :: EQ at Work in an Indonesian University. (Details)

Inger Paris & Margit Danielsson :: Project Leader for Healthy School initiative in Västmanland (Sweden). :: Pedagogical Change for Healthy Schools. (Details)

Eva Rocío Díaz Pinto :: English as a foreign language educator and researcher (Spain). :: Emotional Intelligence Promoting Secondary Students´ Willingness to Communicate. (Details)

Leonard Wysocki :: Human Resources Manager; Researcher; Consultant (US). :: Emotional intelligence within an Executive MBA Program. (Details)

Personal & Professional

Research

Kees Blase, Ph.D. :: Kees Blase introduced HeartMath into the Netherlands in education through APS-International, a licensee of the Institute of HeartMath. Together with Robert Erdbrink he takes the initiative for HeartMath Netherlands, delevering services also in health and business. Kees is trainer of APS-International in authentic leadership, joyful learning and heart focus in competence management, and an author, director and musician (Netherlands). :: Heart Focus (Details)

Yoshimi and Jon Brett :: Organizational development specialists, authors of TetraMap - How to Develop People & Business the Way Nature Intended (New Zealand). :: TetraMap: An EI tool that drives your creativity and leverages individuality (Details)

Heather Campbell FCIPD, MBA :: Independent coach and consultant specialising in leadership development related to self-awareness, self-confidence and emotional intelligence (UK). :: Self-confidence: A Trick of the Light? (Details)

James D'Angelo, Ph.D. :: Researcher and practitioner on use of sound in healing; author of Healing With The Voice: Creating Harmony Through The Power of Sound (UK). :: Resonances of the Logos. (Details)

Brent Darnell :: Engineer, writer, actor and musician focused on The People-Profit Connection (US). :: Using Meditation and Visualization Techniques to increase wisdom, increase EQ, and Enhance the EQ Learning Process. (Details)

Rina de Klerk, Ph.D. :: Trainer, coach, therapist, and author of Emotional Intelligence for Optimal Personal Growth (South Africa). :: Emotional Awareness a Prerequisite for Emotional Control. (Details)

Granville D'Souza, MBA. :: EQ Team and leadership trainer, EFT and NLP practitioners, President of Six Seconds SEA (Singapore). :: Using Emotional Freedom Technique to Navigate Emotions. (Details)

Joshua Freedman :: Emotional intelligence consultant, trainer, and researcher; Chair of the International NexusEQ Conferences and Director of Six Seconds' Institute for Organizational Performance (US). :: Conference Co-Chair (Details)

Henk Galenkamp, Ph.D. :: Coach, counselor, and trainer for CPS; coauthor of Ontwikkelen van emotionele intelligentie (Netherlands) :: The Emotional Journey: Discovery Through Family Constellations. (Details)

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. :: With over 5 million copies in print in 30 languages, he author who brought "emotional intelligence" to the world stage (US). (Details)

Markus Hornung :: Trainer and consulting applying emotional Intelligence in communication, team-development and self-mastery; Co-founder, EQ Dynamics International (Germany). :: Connecting Values and Emotions - a New Approach to developing Emotional Intelligence (Details)

Barbara Jones :: Founder of The Soma Centre in the village of Pissouri, and Feldenkrais pracitioner (Cyprus). :: Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement (Details)

Azhar Mansur Khan, Ph.D., and Atiq-ur-Rehman :: Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Success of Projects - An Analytical Study of Emotional Intelligence in Selected Project Organizations of Pakistan :: Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Success of Projects - An Analytical Study of Emotional Intelligence in Selected Project Organizations of Pakistan (Details)

Elizabeth Moseley Gerber, Ph.D. :: Health psychologist and emotional intelligence advocate (Switzerland). :: Navigate Toward Your Noble Goals with the EQ Compass. (Details)

Yoyo Olivier - van der Kooi :: Fine artist, founder and director of the Humanifold School for the Art of Living in Arnhem, The Netherlands (1997). As a European first prize winner in Painting she started exploring the relationship between creativity and emotional freedom in her workshops and courses from 1982 (Netherlands). :: EQ and body intelligence (Details)

Nigel Osborne :: An inspiring and prize-winning composer (Gaudeamus Award, Koussevitzky Award) Nigel specialises in music therapy and reconciliation. He is an advisor for War Child bringing humanitarian aid and peace-building to Bosnia Herzegovina Israel-Palestine (Scotland). :: Music, Emotions, and Reconciliation (Details)

Lipi Paul, Dipl.Ped. :: International Master Stressmanagement Trainer; Director and Founder of Stressmanagement Institute; President of German Association of Stressmanagement and Relaxation Training (Germany). :: Stressmanagement Through Emotional Intelligence. (Details)

Altazar Rossiter, Ph.D. :: Board member, Society for Effective Affective Learning (UK). :: Emotional Intelligence: The Threshold of the Soul. (Details)

Joshua Samson, M.A. :: Musician, composer, and band leader (Netherlands). :: Art in Rhythm (Details)

Stephan Seegers :: Training and coaching based on martial arts focussing on communication, personal leadership and team development (Netherlands). :: Fighting and Emotional Intelligence. (Details)

D.P.J. (Dawie) Smith, D.Ed. :: Professor of leadership at the University of Johannesburg and leadership consultant in many sectors including mining and education(South Africa). :: Misconceptions about EQ: Deploying EQ in one's life dimensions. (Details)

Dhyan Vermeulen, Ph.D. :: Board member, EQ Europe Education Network; educational trainer and consultant for APS (Netherlands). :: Feeling in Motion: Kundalini Meditation. (Details)

Robert Emmerling, PsyD. :: Consultant, researcher and lecturer on assessment and development of emotional intelligence in the workplace (US). :: Training Tomorrow's Leaders: Developing the EI of Business Students (Details)

Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, Ph.D. :: Research scientist in emotional intelligence, employee, and customer behavior; author of the Advanced Interpretation Report (Canada). :: Hidden Gems: What you Didn't Know You Don't Know About EQ (Details)

Yuri Hanin, Ph.D. :: Senior Researcher & Professor at the KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports (Finland). :: Individualized Emotion Profiling of Performance-Related States (Details)

Larry Richard, J.D., Ph.D. :: A former trial lawyer, Dr. Richard holds a Ph.D. in psychology and helps law firms on management and leadership issues involving behavior; he is a Director with Hildebrandt International (US). :: The Emotionally Intelligent Lawyer: Myth or Reality? (Details)

Peter Salovey, Ph.D. :: Researcher, author, and educator, Peter Salovey is one of the pioneering scientists in the field of EI; together with Jack Mayer, he published the seminal articles in the field in 1990. Salovey is Dean of Yale College and a Professor of Psychology at Yale University (US). :: Science and Hype: The (re)Evolution of Emotional Intelligence (Details)

Vinod K. Shanwal, Ph.D. :: Research Associate Fellow - Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi, and author of Emotional Intelligence: The Indian Scenario (India). :: Emotional Intelligence: Case of Indian Primary School Children. (Details)

Matthew Sowcik, MA :: Coordinator of the new Personnel and Professional Development (PPD) program in the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership at Wilkes University (US). :: Training Tomorrow's Leaders: Developing the EI of Business Students (Details)

Ronella van Rensburg :: Senior Lecturer in Piano, Electronic/Digital Keyboard and Theory at the MUSICON, Bloemfontein (South Africa). :: The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Music Performance Anxiety. (Details)

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