Steven Berglas

Steven Berglas is a management consultant, executive coach,
and clinical psychologist on the faculty of the John E.
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Previously,
Dr. Berglas spent twenty-five years on the faculty of
Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Berglas is the author of Reclaiming The Fire: How
Successful People Overcome Burnout (Random House, 2001)
which details how corporate executives, business managers,
lawyers, and other professionals struggle to find meaning in
careers they have mastered. Berglas is also the author of
three other books that explain how the allegedly positive
consequences of success can cause a number of vocational,
interpersonal, and psychological problems ranging from
depression and drug abuse to career self-sabotage and more
flagrant forms of self-destructive behavior.

Dr. Berglas has presented his insights on how to identify
and prevent psychological disorders unique to high achievers
to scores of businesses and professional groups including
the AMA, APA, ABA and YPO, and lectures widely on "executive
psychology" as applied to entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Berglas also uses his twenty-five years of experience to
consult with corporate executives on various aspects of
management psychology including leadership training,
employee retention, and the development of prevention
programs designed to curb burnout and white collar crime.

Dr. Berglas introduced and wrote the Entrepreneurial Ego
column for Inc. Magazine for over two years, and his
writings have been featured in The New York Times, The
Boston Globe, and several professional journals. In addition
to public speaking, Berglas is a regular guest on talk shows
including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, TODAY, Good
Morning America, The CBS Evening News, and The Koppel
Report. Stories about Berglas's research have appeared in
scores of periodicals including Fortune, TIME, Newsweek, The
Wall Street Journal, People and The Times of London.

Berglas received his B.A. at Clark University, his Ph.D. at
Duke University, and his postdoctoral training at Harvard
Medical School.