Our Team
Leading Minds Associates
Meet the consultants in the Leading Minds Executive Coaching practice. In addition to Dr. David Brendel, there are three other coaching professionals who work with clients directly and behind the scenes to deliver outstanding coaching services: Emmie Stamell, Stefan Kalt, and Ryan Stelzer.
About Dr. David Brendel, MD, PhD
A Track Record of Excellence at the Highest Levels. Dr. Brendel’s educational background and career achievements reflect his deep commitment to understanding human experience and to helping others face human challenges so that they can thrive in all aspects of their lives.
Building on his medical training and doctoral work in philosophy, Dr. Brendel became a leading psychiatrist and hospital executive. Dr. Brendel is also an author with articles in publications such as Psychology Today, Harvard Business Review, and Huffington Post.
With Leading Minds, he applies his background and expertise to his work as a certified executive coach, corporate team coach, management consultant, crisis management specialist, and philosophical counselor. His passion in all these endeavors is to help others deepen their capacity for self-reflection and thereby enhance their capacity to succeed at the highest level in their work and personal lives. Download Dr. Brendel’s CV
Harvard-Trained MD/PhD Psychiatrist
Certified Executive Coach
Master Certified Coach Trainer
Experienced Hospital Executive
MIT Press Author of Healing Psychiatry
Harvard Business Review Blogger
Co-Author of “Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit For Humans,” as well as several important Executive and Career coaching models, Dr. Brendel’s ground-breaking work on the Human Quotient has been featured in the Huffington Post. Dr. Brendel has also developed several other models including the PITTA Model for Executive Coaching, the SANE model for Philosophy and Coaching, and the 4-M Wellness and Stress Management Model.
Think Talk Create
Building Workplaces Fit For Humans
A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.
Media Appearances
Interviews / Quoted In
Radio Show Host
Leading Minds with Dr. David Brendel aired on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment channel.
Speaker
I have done a great deal of public speaking on all my professional interests. Some of my recent speeches have focused on my overall approach to executive coaching, the relationship between coaching and psychiatry, the relevance of philosophical counseling to coaching, the ethics of coaching, and the role of the Internet and social media in coaching practice.
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Dr. Brendel’s Experienceand Credentials
Education
- B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University
- M.D., Harvard Medical School
- Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Chicago
Post-Doctoral Training
- Fellowship, Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions
- Full Certification, Center for Executive Coaching (affiliate of the International Coach Federation)
- Full Certification, American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Published Works
- Fellowship, Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions
- Full Certification, Center for Executive Coaching (affiliate of the International Coach Federation)
- Full Certification, American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Awards
- Excellence in Teaching Award, The Academy at Harvard Medical School
- Best Doctors in America Award Oxford University Press
- Dr. Sirgay Sanger Psychiatry Award, Harvard Medical School
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