David Fraser, PhD, is a leading authority on relationship skills in professional and personal life. With his breadth of knowledge, an engineer’s talent for organizing systematic and reliable solutions, and an ability to write in an interesting, direct, and readable way, David is well positioned to address the age-old problem of how to build effective relationships with other people. David is a public speaker and broadcaster.

David has a track record of pioneering new approaches to old problems. He has delivered major projects for government and private sector clients in challenging situations and set up a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He is a business owner, and a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours degree and a PhD from Glasgow University and an MBA from Strathclyde University. He is a qualified commercial mediator and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Pract itioner and has trained with leading proponents of these disciplines.

David applies his unusual blend of expertise to supporting disparate groups working together in complex circumstances, including major collaborative projects and matters of national importance. In addition to his work on relationship management with corporate clients, David runs workshop and coaching programs on relationship skills for both organizations and individuals, focusing on the potential to leverage results. David also finds the approach set out in his books to be extremely helpful in his home and family environment.

David lives with his wife and three children in Glasgow, Scotland and sails on the West Coast of Scotland when time permits.

You notice it immediately. The meeting’s hardly started before you realise it’s all going to be facts and figures; all logical and analytical—nothing from the heart at all. I can spot this behavior well because it used to be mine. It took me years since it was first pointed out to me to get out of my head enough to even notice the need to. Now I see it all the time.

The thing is…

We’ve come to rely on our thinking—literally what goes on in our heads—to see us through, or to distract us completely from issues, or problems with people we’d rather leave to another day.

We’ve also filled our lives up with technology and many great benefits have flowed from that, and no doubt will continue to.
The ancients didn’t have that luxury. Their lives were grim in many ways.

But here’s the thing…