Dr. Dorothy Cantor

Website : http://www.drdorothycantor.com
Residence : Westfield, NJ

Biographical information
Dr. Dorothy W. Cantor served as the 105th President of the American Psychological Association in 1996-97. Currently president of the American Psychological Foundation, she is also a board member of the Rosalynn Carter Institute and advisor at the University of Haifa, School of Social Welfare. A 1976 graduate of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, she has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Association. She organized and chaired both the APA Committee on Urban Initiatives and the Task Force on the Changing Gender Composition of Psychology. She is a past-president of the New Jersey Psychological Association, for 5 years served as Director of Professional Affairs for the Association and is a co-founder of Women in Psychology for Legislative Action, a national PAC.

Dr. Cantor has a private practice in Westfield, N.J. and is also a principal in the Leadership Equation Institute, a consulting company which offers leadership and personal development seminars for executive, entrepreneurial and professional women. Cantor has written or edited five books and numerous articles, focusing on women's issues and advocacy. Her last book, prior to What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? was Women in Power, with Dr. Toni Bernay. Self-Talk for Women is due out in January, 2004. Dr. Cantor has also appeared as an expert on countless television shows, including Good Morning America, Prime Time Live, the Today show, CNBC, and the Fox News Channel.

She has spoken at the Smithsonian Institute, American Psychological Association conventions, International Women in Leadership Summit in Brussels, University of New England, Carrier Foundation, Southern Women in Public Service Conference in Lexington, KY, NASA Equal Opportunity Council, Houston, TX, John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, MA, and Women Executives in State Government.

Discussion topics

• What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? A must-hear presentation for everyone who is ever going to change jobs or retire, based on her recent book by the same name.
• Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership: A dynamic presentation for women in business or organizational leadership, to teach them how to develop their Leadership Equation; the components of which make leadership possible. Based on groundbreaking research with Toni Bernay, and published in Women In Power.
• Self-Talk for Women: An exciting presentation that will help women find their own voices, rather than responding to those of Men, Mothers, Myths and the Media.

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