Meet the providers in the Leading Minds Executive Coaching practice. In addition to Dr. David Brendel, there are two other coaching professionals who work with clients directly and behind the scenes to deliver outstanding executive coaching services: Stefan Kalt, PhD., Allison Abrams, LCSW, and Emmie Stamell.
With experience and knowledge in providing comprehensive coaching services, our providers can empower you to reach your goals. We offer a wide range of services to ensure that you have access to all areas of coaching services.
Dr. Brendel’s Credentials and Expertise
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, hospital executive, and published author. 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.
Media Appearances
- ABC| Consultant for ABC News OnCall+ Mind &Mood
- PBS| Consultant to PBS series American Experience (commentary on The Lobotomist)
- CNBC| Business Network featured a debate on my paper, Patient-Targeted Googling from the Harvard Review of Psychiatry
- VoiceAmerica | One Hour at a Time
Radio Show Host
LEADING MINDS WITH DR. DAVID BRENDEL aired on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment channel.
Interviews / Quoted In
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- Wall Street Journal
- Harvard Magazine
- Fast Company
- Boston Globe
- Los Angeles Times
- Psychiatric News
- New England Psychologist
- WebMD (article 1)
- WebMD (article 2)
- Palm Beach Daily News (article 1)
- Sirius Radio
- American Medical News
- Bipolar Magazine
- KPAM Portland, Oregon
- Real Match
- Social Hire
- Executive Style
- John Mattone
- Psychology Today
- People Geeks
- Matt Walker
- HR Drive
- PSMag
- Entrepreneur
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.
Please call me at (617) 932-1548 or email me at Media@DrDavidBrendel.com if you would like to book a media appearance, a speech, or a talk for members of your executive team or other colleagues.
Pictures for Media Use
Overview of Dr. Brendel’s Experience and 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
Executive Leadership Positions:
- Chair, Institutional Review Board (IRB), McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2006-10)
- Associate Medical Director, The Pavilion at McLean Hospital (2002-10)
- Medical Director, Walden Behavioral Care (2011-12)
Published Works:
- Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide (MIT Press)
- Medical Professionalism in the Age of Online Social Networking (Journal of Medical Ethics)
- Physicians in Cyberspace: New Dilemmas in Medicine (Footnote)
- Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) (Harvard Business Review)
Editorial Positions:
- Deputy Editor, Harvard Review of Psychiatry
- Book Reviewer, Oxford University Press
- Peer Reviewer, Journal of Medical Ethics
Awards:
- Excellence in Teaching Award, The Academy at Harvard Medical School
- Best Doctors in America Award
- Dr. Sirgay Sanger Psychiatry Award, Harvard Medical School
Press Appearances:
Current Professional Services:
David Brendel, MD, PhD
Author of Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
Published by MIT Press“Any mental health worker would do well to read this book and take note of the main theme–patients come before theory”Journal of Mental Health