Rita Lustgarten, PhD, is a psychotherapist, organizational consultant, seminar leader, and executive coach. She has worked in the field of personal growth and human development for thirty-five years, emphasizing the humanistic and transpersonal dimensions of experience. She currently maintains a vital private practice in psychotherapy and ontological coaching, and owns her own consulting firm Global Vision Consulting.

After years of training and working in the field of psychology, she began to apply her skills to organizations. She became a certified Organizational Development consultant in 1993 at the California Institute for Integral Studies while participating in a doctoral program. She has worked for Amadeus International, a London based consulting firm, Rafael Gonzales, in San Jose, CA. and is a founding member of Quadrix Training & Consulting group in San Francisco, CA. As a consultant, her work focuses on uncovering human potential in organizations, providing embodied, engaged leadership development, strategic development and the creation of frameworks of global change to leaders and their organizations.

As a seminar leader and trainer, her seminars focus on archetypal psychology and its organizational implications; the wisdom of the feminine in leadership; ontological coaching for women entrepreneurs; women and business; the psychology of money; mentoring circles for women executives; and conscious relationship.

Rita is a founding member of Wisdom's Goldenrod, a Center for Philosophic Studies; The Waldorf School in Ithaca, N.Y.; The Center for Psychological Medicine; The Institute for Evolutionary Leadership, and the first Somatic organization of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She has served on a number of non-profit boards, including The Trager institute, and as executive director of the Waldorf School, Ithaca, N.Y.

Her current focus is primarily on women's leadership development and the application of wisdom to the field of leadership.