Don Goewey, President
Don Joseph Goewey is president of ProAttitude, a human performance firm.  ProAttitude transforms the workplace through a cutting edge approach that sustains peak performance by ending stress.  San Francisco Chronicle said that: In Don, ProAttitude could not have a better leader.

Don’s career in the field of human potential and human performance extends over three decades.  He has studied and consulted with Carl R. Rogers, Ph.D., the founder of the humanistic psychology. He has worked closely with Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., author of Change Your Mind, Change Your Life,  in advancing a school of psychology based on attitude

Between 1993 and 2005, Don served as executive director of the Center for Attitudinal Healing, internationally recognized for its approach to human crisis.  Don has worked with people facing some of the most stressful situations any one will ever face, from people challenged with life threatening illness, to parents who have lost children, to refugees of war who lost everything.  From 1992-1995, Don led the Center’s Croatia-Bosnia  Project, funded by the US State Department to help refugees of the Bosnian War recover from post traumatic stress.

Prior to this, Don served as the lead executive in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University.  He was the administrator of San Mateo County’s Emergency Medical Services and Mental Health Division.  He also directed one of the three national demonstration sites of Robert Wood Johnson’s Municipal Health Services Program and a regional AIDS program at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the Bay Area.

He is the author of Mystic Cool, Neuroplasticity, Transformation, and the Power of Attitude,  which will be published by Simon & Schuster in the spring of 2009. He is also the author of Fishing for Fallen Light.

Don is a graduate of San Francisco State University.