Biography
Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT, and did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society, which extend the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization. In 1997 she published Who’s Afraid of Schrödinger’s Cat?, a survey of 20th century scientific ideas, and her business book, ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations. In February 2000 she published SQ: Spiritual Intelligence — The Ultimate Intelligence. Her latest book is Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By, published in April 2004.
Danah Zohar has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and at the Maquarie University School of Management in Sydney, Australia. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.
Described by the Financial Times and Prentice Hall as “one of the world’s greatest management thinkers”, Zohar has been active in management education and consultancy. Companies to which she has made in-house presentations at senior management level have included The Swedish Forestry Commission, Volvo, Astra Pharmaceutical, Werner Lambert Pharmaceutical, Philip Morris Tobacco, Marks & Spencer, Shell, British Telecom, Motorola, Philips, Norwich Union Financial Services, Merita Financial Services (Finland), Skandia Insurance and Financial Services, The Bank of International Settlements, Scottish Enterprise, Fife Enterprise, BMW, McCann Erikson, Coca Cola, and McKinsey. She was on the faculty of Shell UK’s “Challenges for Change” senior management training program and has addressed the leadership team of Shell USA’s transformation process for senior management. She recently worked with McKinsey’s new global spiritual intelligence training initiative.
Danah Zohar lectures widely throughout the world at conferences organized by UNESCO, The European Cultural Foundation, The Davos World Economic Forum, The World Business Academy, YPO, IFTDO (the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations), the British Cabinet Office, Japan’s Council for the Growth of Future Generations, The American National Education Association (NEA), Britain’s Work Foundation, and the Australian National Government. She has addressed members of The Swedish National Parliament and has worked with local government representatives and educators in several countries.
Danah Zohar currently lives in Oxford, England with her husband and co-author Dr. Ian Marshall and their extended family.
