Daniel Goleman is an internationally renowned psychologist, specialising in emotional behaviour and emotional intelligence. He is co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University, co-founder of The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at Yale University as well as a member of the board of directors at the Mind & Life Institute. 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.
Goleman's previous book, Emotional Intelligence has been translated into 30 languages selling over 6 million copies worldwide and remains one of the bestselling non-fictions works of the past decade. Goleman lives in the Berkshires in the United States.