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About Dr. Michael Pantalon - Psychologist at Yale & Speaker on Motivation:

Dr. Michael Pantalon is a motivational coach, consultant, speaker, and therapist, as well as an award-winning faculty member and psychologist at Yale School of Medicine. He is the author of Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything—Fast! At Yale, Dr. Pantalon teaches courses in clinical psychology and conducts research on the effectiveness of his adaptation of motivational interviewing (the basis of Instant Influence).

He and his colleagues have received over 22 million dollars in federal funding for their work over the past decade, and have published numerous articles on his research, in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Pantalon has taught his Instant Influence method to thousands of people from all walks of life: business executives, human resource managers, executive, lifestyle and career coaches, parents, teachers, sales representatives, probation officers, psychologists and other health care professionals, as well as individuals struggling with a range of health-risk, addictive and compulsive behaviors. He has consulted with businesses and organizations such as General Electric, Bristol-Myers Squib, Schering-Plough, Crossroads at Antigua, Pavillon International, Hazelden, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among many others.

Dr. Pantalon earned his B.A. in Psychology from Binghamton University; his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University; and his M.S. in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with his wife, Marianne, and their sons, Matthew and Nicholas.

What Dr. Michael Pantalon Talks About:

The Power of Instant Influence
Instant Influence is a revolutionary new approach proven to create instant, effective, and lasting change in anyone— coworkers, friends, family, strangers, even yourself. In the course of six easy steps, Dr. Pantalon can help yourself or others:
- Identify a desired change
- Recognize why you might want to make that change
-Think of the positive outcomes
- Identify why those outcomes are important to you
- Make a change plan

Dr. Pantalon begins his speeches with one of a number of his highly engaging stories regarding the need for the development of his ultra-brief method for motivating or influencing people at work or at home. He then presents the 3 main ideas behind his Instant Influence method successfully: 1) People change when they hear themselves say WHY (not how) they WANT (not need or have) to change; 2) In order to influence others, you need to get out of their way by remembering to STOP telling them what to do and START asking 6 simple questions to get anyone to do anything – fast! and 3) Instant Influence works, the portion of Dr. Pantalon’s speech which covers relevant success stories and culminates with a clear and compelling picture of how Instant Influence will work for the current audience. Each speech is adapted to the particular needs and motivational concerns of the audience.