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Introduction of Steve Alexander
Driving a city bus through Boston’s cold winters to pay his way through undergrad psychology studies didn’t seem like it would have anything to do with his career path or even related to what our next speaker would someday do.
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omewhere along the way, from driving that bus, working weekend midnight shifts at 7/11, honing skills as a submarine machinist, surviving the world’s worst hurricane and caring for the lives of 150 stranded people, while vacationing in Cozumel in 1988 and attending a little music celebration in New York’s Catskills in 1969, called “Woodstock,” his path became clear, and each of those influences shaped what he’s dedicated himself to since…inspiring and helping others become more fully who they are, no matter what they do – learning how to be better leaders who understand the power of love in our everyday lives.
He earned his graduate degree and license as a marriage and family therapist, served eight years under three San Diego city mayors of both parties as a Park and Recreation commissioner and chairman of the Mission Bay Park Committee, where he led the city’s first completion of the Local Coastal Plan and an award-winning effort for the most extensive public outreach project, in the city’s history while facilitating the unanimously approved, by the City Council and Coastal Commission, adoption of the Mission Bay Master Plan.
He was appointed by three Democrat and Republican governors to chair California’s behavioral science board for mental health providers, to serve as president of the Medical Board of California – regulating over 125,000 licensed physicians and surgeons under the state’s Medical Practice Act – and, when asked by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a state boxing commissioner.
His career spanned directing the southern California region for the world’s largest public relations firm, executive-level leadership coach, trainer, board development specialist and facilitator for large corporations, NGOs, elected officials, public agencies, and nonprofit boards like the Red Cross, LEAD San Diego, the San Diego Foundation and Children’s Hospitals of San Diego, Orange County and St. Louis, and helping raise $100 billion in conservation funding to protect clean air and water and preserve lands with one of the world’s largest conservation organizations, The Nature Conservancy.
He’s trained folks in New Zealand, Bali, Chile and from Alaska to Alabama, and coached, trained, facilitated with and inspired many leaders here in San Diego, including city councils for Imperial Beach, Coronado, San Diego, Del Mar and Carlsbad, and the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego Unified Port District and Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce.
Hundreds of physicians, healthcare providers, executives, leaders and others have taken his training on powerful presentations, “Speaking with Confidence – How to Reach & Inspire Any Audience from One to Thousands,” and learned the tools, tips, techniques and skills to deliver new-style, story-based communications to their critical audiences.
And, to celebrate his 66th birthday, he travelled to Chicago to drive Route 66, to memorialize the world’s most famous road. He now travels yearly to Africa, where his goal is to experience the cultures, people, animals and landscapes of this unique spot on the planet.
He now lives at the ocean in La Jolla, California, and writes, speaks and trains others throughout the world on leading with compassion, purpose and heart.
His insights and perspective will certainly provoke and engage you…mind, heart and soul.