John P. Hanley, PhD
Leadership & Development Group
John Hanley’s vision is to design learning environments where people can increase their effectiveness, improve the quality of their lives, and take responsibility for the difference they make in the world. He is the founder of Lifespring, Inc. and has dedicated his professional life to creating innovative leadership programs. In January of 1974, John presented the Lifespring training to 25 students. Through the course of the next twenty years, hundreds of thousands of participants took part in the Lifespring Basic Training and Lifespring spread to cities all across the United States. John is also a nationally ranked Cutting Horse competitor with a 400 acre working ranch in California. He has achieved championship rankings in numerous categories of competitions, both in the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association, which includes the eleven Western States, and in the National Cutting Horse Association, which includes all fifty states. He continues to compete regularly in major Cutting Horse events.
Born in South Carolina and raised in Wisconsin, John received his Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science at the University of Wisconsin. He and his wife Candace have been happily married for 25 years and have three children.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
LIFESPRING, Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be published by Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, 1989.
Getting It. Published by Motivational Press.To be released in 2012.