Dr. Peter Koestenbaum brings leadership philosophy to business people globally. He helps develop the leadership mind as the key for achieving business results. And he focuses on the tough issues of implementation.  Dr. Koestenbaum earned degrees in physics, music, and philosophy, from Stanford University, Harvard University, and Boston University. He is currently working through the Koestenbaum Institute, headquartered in Stockholm and Los Angeles on the global implementation of his Leadership Diamond®. Koestenbaum's Leadership Diamond® is a complete program of leadership awareness. The Leadership Diamond® focuses on the power of depth, which leads to emphasizing the power of free will, the ubiquitous presence of polarity and paradox, analyzing the structure of courage, and the critical importance of understanding systems and strategy. This leadership philosophy leverages the power of negative experiences for clues to breakthroughs. Dr. Koestenbaum taught at San Jose State University, where he received the Statewide Outstanding Professor Award. He founded an accredited institute for teachers, nurses, physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists that taught the uses of philosophy in education, psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. Koestenbaum currently consults with organizations in more than 36 countries covering five continents in management, strategic thinking, marketing, and leadership. His clients include: IBM, Electronic Data Systems, Ford, Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), Citibank, Volvo, Amoco, Xerox, American Medical International (now Tenet Health System), Warner Cosmetics, Statoil (Norway), and Sparbanken Gruppen (Sweden). He is an active faculty member in the School for Managing and Leading Change. A published author, his business books include: Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness and The Heart of Business. Some of his philosophic books are The Vitality of Death, The New Image of the Person, Managing Anxiety, Choosing to Love and Is There an Answer to Death.
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