Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D. is a motivational coach, consultant, therapist, and award-winning faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Pantalon teaches undergraduate and graduate students courses in Personality Psychology and the History of Psychology; and medical students, residents and fellows classes on Clinical Psychology and Motivational Interviewing. He and his colleagues conduct research on the effectiveness of his adaptation of motivational interviewing (the basis of Instant Influence) and substance abuse treatment in a variety of healthcare and criminal justice settings. This work has received over 22 million dollars in federal funding over the past decade.
He has consulted with businesses and organizations such as General Electric, Bristol-Myers, Squib Co., Schering-Plough, Crossroads at Antigua, Hazelden, Inc., the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. He has published numerous articles in the world’s top scientific journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has presented his work at national and international conferences.
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About the book:
Instant Influence
How to Get Anyone to Do Anything – Fast!
(Little Brown, May 2011)
Michael Pantalon teaches readers how they can find their inner motivation—or help someone else find theirs—in just six simple steps that have been proven to succeed in seven minutes. No matter what the situation, in business or in personal life, Yale psychologist (and speaker, trainer, consultant, motivational coach and therapist) Michael Pantalon, Ph.D. has figured out how to get people to change almost instantaneously, using groundbreaking scientific research.
He’s used his method with literally thousands of people, and these thousands have trained tens of thousands of others, from ER doctors to parole officers, from GE’s Human Resource Department to the National Institutes of Health. For the first time, Pantalon’s technique is available in book format, broken down into accessible, reader-friendly chapters. It’s the perfect solution for readers who want to change—or who want to help a loved one to change—in just a few minutes.
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