Through his coaching, workshops, psychotherapy and teaching, Dr. Lurie has helped provide thousands of individuals with the self-awareness, communication and relationship building tools essential to giving the most to, and getting the most from life, moment-to-moment just as it is. His "Connecting Style Survey" and toolkit, workshops, and books, "Connect for Success" and "Handbook for Early Career Success (2010)" have already been incorporated into training programs at leading universities, healthcare institutions and organizations including KPMG, Prudential Financial, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, NYSE-Euronext., Queens Hospital Center, Jacobi Hospital, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NYU, Five Towns College and Adelphi University. Dr. Lurie founded the leadership development firm Lurie Executive Development in 1986, which specializes in coaching, team building, and ollaborative change management. He recently started Empowered Life Strategies and Publishing to provide workshops and training to audiences who historically have not had access to personal development programs. Dr. Lurie lectures at NYU and Adelphi Universities. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Brandeis University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Adelphi University, where he then completed a four-year postdoctoral program in psychotherapy.