Dana’s EQ Leader Program Manual2.0 (EQL) serves as the text for this course. It was first published by MHS in 2006. Coaches around the world purchased that edition. Dana extensively revised EQL in 2020, integrating what he learned over the intervening fourteen years.

For the past 20+ years, psychologist Dana Ackley, Ph.D. has focused on creating methods that result in sustainable behavior change for leaders. Prior to his coaching career, Dana was a clinician, working with families and community leaders for twenty-five years. He is a Fellow in Divisions 13 and 42 of APA. He is the author of The EQ Leader Program Manual2.0, a comprehensive program for building EQ skills in executives, and Breaking Free of Managed Care (Guilford Press, 1997). He is the winner of the 2022 Leadership Worth Following Award from the Society of Consulting Psychology. Learn more at EQ Leader, Inc.