Dr. Danah Zohar
Director & Co-Founder Quantum Management Center
Professor Danah Zohar was born & educated in the United States. She is a dual American/UK citizen and now resides in Oxford. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT, and then did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society, books which extend the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousinness, psychology and social organization. In 1997 she published ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations. In February 2000 she published SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, in 2004 Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By, and in 2016 The Quantum Leader: A Revolution in Business Thinking & Practice. Her recent book, Zero Distance: Management in the Quantum Age, was published in 2021. Zohar’s new book, Confucius Meets Heisenberg: Leadership Wisdom from Quantum Science & Chinese Philosophy, was published in Chinese in November 2024. English publication due in September 2025.
Danah Zohar is the originator of Quantum Psychology, Quantum Social Theory, SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, & Quantum Management Theory.
Zohar is currently Hon Professor of Quantum Philosophy at the Center for Confucian Entrepreneurship and East Asia Civilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and has just completed two years as a Visiting Professor at the China Art Academy, Hangzhou. She also lectures frequently at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Macquarie University School of Management in Sydney, Australia. In the UK, she has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme offered by Templeton College (now Saïd Business School) at the University of Oxford.
RECENT HONORS: In September 2018, Zohar received the Haier RenDanHeyi Medal “For Her Scholarly Contribution to the Haier Business Model.” In December 2018, the Tsingua Business Review named her “China’s Top Innovation Management Thinker”. In September 2022, Zohar was inducted into “The Thinker’s 50 Management Hall of Fame”. Also in September 2022, Woxcen University Business School in Hyderabad, India established an academic chair, the “Danah Zohar Professor of Quantum Philosophy” to honour Zohar’s work. She has been described by The Financial Times as “one of the world’s 50 leading management thinkers”.
Zohar is active in management education and higher education reform. She is currently a Consultant & Advisor for NICE/JITRI (China'[s National Innovation Center par Excellence), and a frequent speaker at Chinese companies and conferences. Until recently she was an Entrepreneurial Mentor to Haier Group in Qingdao, China, and adviser for the Quantum Leadership Transformation Project at Roche Pharmaceutical, India. She has previously been engaged at a senior management level with organizations including the Swedish Forestry Commission, Volvo, Astra Pharmaceutical, Werner Lambert Pharmaceutical, Philip Morris Tobacco, Marks & Spencer, Shell, British Telecom, Motorola, Philips, Norwich Union Financial Services, Merita Financial Services, Skandia Insurance and Financial Services, the Bank of International Settlements, Scottish Enterprise, NASA’s Goddard Space Centre, China Aerospace, BMW, McCann Erikson, Coca Cola, and McKinsey. She was on the faculty of Shell UK’s “Challenges for Change” senior management training programme and has addressed the leadership team of Shell USA’s transformation process for senior management.
Zohar lectures widely throughout the world at conferences organized by such bodies as UNESCO, the European Cultural Foundation, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the World Business Academy, the Dubai World Government Summit, the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations, the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, Japan’s Council for the Growth of Future Generations, the Saint Petersburg Social and Economic Institute in Russia, the National Education Association in the USA, Britain’s Work Foundation, the Australian National Government, and the Trilateral Commission. She has addressed members of the Swedish Parliament and has worked with local and national government representatives and educators in several countries. Recently, she divides her time between her home in Oxford, UK, and her work in China.
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