ABOUT DR. ALEXANDER

Ronald A. Alexander, PhD is a licensed psychotherapist, leadership consultant, clinical trainer, & the author of the widely acclaimed book, Wise Mind, Open Mind. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind Training® Institute in Santa Monica, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. His unique method combines ancient wisdom teachings with positive psychology and creative thinking into a comprehensive integrated, behaviorally effective mind-body program. This system combines techniques that support strategies of personal, clinical, and corporate excellence and growth.

Coaching and Leadership Bio

Dr. Ronald Alexander, PhD is a leading Executive and Leadership Coach, and Communication and Creativity Consultant with a private psychotherapy practice in Santa Monica, California. His extensive training includes conflict management, Gestalt therapy, leadership and organizational development and pioneered the early values and vision based models for current day leadership and professional coaching. He studied with and was influenced by noted leaders in these fields such as Ken Blanchard, Warren Bennis, Umberto Materana and Francesco Variela and over 34 years ago was one of the early leaders in the field of coaching and training. Dr. Alexander specializes in Mind-Body therapies and has been studying and teaching Mindfulness Meditation, Creative Visualization and Transpersonal Psychology since 1970. He is a pioneer in combining Eastern and Western techniques that support strategies of personal and corporate excellence including creativity, leadership skills, communication and conflict resolution.

Clinical Psychotherapy Bio

Ronald A. Alexander, PhD MFT a psychotherapist, leadership consultant and clinical trainer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of California and Colorado (CA Lic. #MFC7707 & CO Lic. #253). He is a seminar leader and conducts training's for professionals nationally and internationally in Mindfulness Based Mind-Body Therapies, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Meditation and Psychotherapy. He personally trained with Milton H. Erickson, Ernest Rossi, and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training's seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He was trained and certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. He also received training and supervision in psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Relational and Object Relations Therapies. He is an associate member of the American Psychological Association and a clinical member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Dr. Alexander was Chairman of the Psychology Department and Director of Clinical Training at Ryokan College for 18 years. He is a long time extension faculty member of the UCLA Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, and a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine. He is a member of the adjunct Graduate Faculty in Psychology at Pepperdine University and Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Cottonwood Treatment Centers London, England and is a long time workshop leader at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. He is the originator of the OpenMind Training®, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. He has been practicing, studying, and teaching meditation, holistic psychology and mindfulness based mind-body methods since 1970. During his studies of mindfulness based mind-body methods Alexander traveled extensively in Nepal, Bali, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India where he was ordained in the lay Zen tradition. His yoga and meditation studies include Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Zen, Vedic (non dual), as well as Hatha, Ashtanga, and Kundalini yoga's and was certified as one of the early Kundalini yoga teachers.

Dr. Alexander conducts ongoing groups and seminars and is available for individual consultation in these areas. He consults and teaches Mindful Zen and the Art of Leadership (East-West approach to leadership training) for small family-owned businesses, and the television, music and film industries as well as privately coaches organizations, executives and entrepreneurs.