Six Seconds helps businesses, schools, communities, and individuals thrive.

When misused, emotions can lead people into catastrophe — yet feelings are also the key to trust, communication, motivation, and optimal decisions. The difference is emotional intelligence (EQ), the science of using feelings effectively. Six Seconds is a world-leader in helping people and organizations gain the benefits of emotional intelligence through life-changing training, change-focused consulting, and innovative tools.

Recent Media Articles: T&D: Emotional Notions - Emotional intelligence is becoming a part of many organizations' core competencies for high performers. O Magazine: The New & Improved Self-Esteem Redbook: Smart About Feelings (more)

Recent Press Releases: New Study Shows Emotional Intelligence Reduces Stress and Predicts 66% of Key Success Factors in Healthcare Leaders Report on Key Workplace Issues in New Survey -- People and Feelings Beat Finance by 300 Percent New Book Teaches How To Get to The Heart of Leadership (more)

For over a decade Six Seconds network members have been at work in over 50 countries and in almost every economic sector helping people connect, communicate, and care. From Fortune 50 companies to community-based nonprofits, Six Seconds’ clients and partners are tapping EQ as a critical asset to improve performance while creating a better world. (more about Six Seconds)

Location: Head office near San Francisco; 501(c)3 not-for-profit est 1997. Network offices in Beijing, Bologna, Brisbane, Lisbon, and Singapore; Certified Consultants in over 50 countries. (more about the international network).

Selected Clients: US Navy & Marine Corps, FedEx, Pfizer, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Palo Alto School District, Nestle Parenting Centers (Indonesia), Alma Business School (Italy), Shell (Brunei), KidsTurn, and Canada’s Youth Solvent Addictions Centres.

Accomplishments:

• Publication of four statistically validated assessment tools for individuals and organizations as well as five books (see tools), over a dozen training programs, and hundreds of articles.
• Development of transformational consulting and learning processes for individual and organizational change.
• Developed EQ programs in over a dozen schools in North America, curriculum and model shared to over 10,000 educators
• Produced five international NexusEQ Conferences; most recent included delegates from 37 nations.
• Over 300,000 web visitors per year.

Key Personnel:

Chairman - Karen McCown, MA, founder of the renown Nueva School; her pioneering emotional intelligence curriculum was first published in 1978. President - Anabel Jensen, Ph.D., professor of education and former school principal who has trained over 10,000 educators how to teach emotional intelligence and developed numerous school and community-based programs. Chief Operating Officer - Joshua Freedman, educator, author and consultant, master-trainer for over 1500 EQ practitioners world-wide; led organizational change programs yielding major performance gains. Selected Consultants: Tom Wojick, MA; Mimi Frenette, MA; Carina Fiedelday-Van Dijk, Ph.D.; Lea Brovedani; Amy Franklin, Ph.D.; Deborah Havert; Max Ghini, MBA; Granville D’Souza MBA, Marilynn Jorgensen, MA. Advisory Board members include Peter Salovey. Ph.D., (Dean of Yale College, one of the scientists who invented “emotional intelligence”); Candace Pert, Ph.D., (former Chief of Brain Science, NIH); Ayman Sawaf (CEO of Urth.tv and author of Executive EQ).