Educational Highlights

  • Leadership and Performance Coaching Certification, Brown University School of Professional Studies

  • Master of Arts, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Brooklyn College

  • Master of Public Administration, Baruch College, Marxe School of Public & International Affairs

  • Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Brooklyn College

  • Certified Professional Coach, Certified Life Coach Institute

  • Brainspotting, Level I, II, III

Publications

  • Cognitive Priming and Cognitive Training: Immediate and Far Transfer to Academic Skills in Children

    Scientific Reports · Sep 12, 2016

    https://www.nature.com/articles/srep32859

  • Co-wrote the book:
    The Woman Who Changed Her Brain and Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
    by Barbara Arrowsmith Young
    Published by Simon & Schuster, May 2012

    Writing this book was a labor of love and was a collaborative process amongst three people – Barbara Arrowsmith Young, Annette Goodman, and Lawrence Scanlan.

Former Advisor

  • The New York Community Trust – Leadership Fellows Program Assessment.

  • The Roddenberry Foundation – identified and advised on innovative neuroscience educational programs.

  • Grey Matters Documentary – Content Advisor (documentary on cognitive remediation for learning disabilities and social skills deficits).

  • Making Friends (app for children with autism).

  • Blue Marble Game Co. (wellness platform).

  • NeuroDevelopment Center (evaluation and treatment for children with learning challenges, anxiety or depression).

Authored Social-Emotional Learning Content

  • Middle school Social Emotional Learning curriculum - Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.

  • Authored content for and delivered Emotional Intelligence Certification Training course - International Society for Emotional Intelligence

  • Developed content for and presented on 'Parenting with Emotional Intelligence' - Six Seconds.

Courses / Conferences

  • Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, RULER: Anchors of EI

  • Nonviolent Communication

  • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self, and Relationships with David Whyte

  • Student Mindsets and Motivation: Attitudes, Stress and Performance

  • Emotions and Education: Affect, Anxiety and Achievement

  • Abandonment to Healing: Overcoming Self-Sabotage

  • The Art of Communication

  • International Congress of Emotional Intelligence

  • Clinical Aspects of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction

  • Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry

  • Learning Disabilities Worldwide Congress

  • National School Climate Center Institute

  • Neuroscience of Emotion and Emotion-Related Disorders

  • Nonduality: Awakening from the Illusion of Our Separateness

  • Omega Institute: What's Next with Sam Keen

  • Rotman Research Institute

  • Hoffman Quadrinity Process

  • SharpBrains Summit I, II, III, IV

  • Syfr Summer Retreat: A Whole New Brain

  • The James Randi Educational Conference

  • NeuroGaming Conference

  • Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society

  • Games for Health

  • Games, Learning & Society Academic Conference