Andrew S. Kane

Andrew S. Kane, OBE, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO- The Center for Professional Wellbeing, LLC

www.andrewskane.com

Dr. Kane has spent decades successfully mentoring, managing and motivating team members and employees. He is known as an empathic but active listener, a critical thinker and is sought out as a trusted advisor and an eloquent speaker. He an author of “Three Bridges- Adulthood is Easy until Life Intervenes”.

Dr. Kane possesses broad and deep global management and leadership experience in business. This is coupled with his work over the past decade in the field of adult development, where he has focused on how people can thrive. Enhancing one’s wellbeing is a core focus of thriving with the attendant and well-researched benefits to the individual and the organization. These include better health, more meaningful engagement, better productivity, and lower absenteeism, as well as enhanced sense to collaborate, trust and a stronger sense of community.

He began his professional life in the UK after graduating from the London School of Economics and practiced in both the UK and USA where he held many management and leadership positions at Arthur Andersen and was a Managing Partner until the deep loss, he felt from Andersen’s collapse in 2002. Professionally he was licensed as a Chartered Accountant (FCA) in the UK and CPA in the USA. He then spent a decade in financial services as a Managing director at HSBC and Board Member of East West Bank. After Dr. Kane left the Financial Services industry, he became President of single-family offices for wealthy families for several years.

Motivated to pursue a lifelong passion after his daughter died from cancer in 2008, during the past decade Dr. Kane has completed masters and doctorate degrees in Human Development and Professional Coaching at IUPS. His Ph.D. thesis focused on addressed midlife. He then wrote his book after receiving his Ph.D.

For many years Dr. Kane has worked with a variety of clients, families, and organizations across the globe and from many cultures, on various aspects of how to thrive, how to solve taxing issues or poor dynamics, how to make effective decisions and develop skills that enhance wellbeing.

He has been for several years a member of the Harvard Affiliated Institute of Coaching, the International Positive Psychology Association, and the International Coaching Federation and is globally certified, positive psychology coach.

He has served on over 25 boards, continues to serve his community and he has also spent years supporting and fostering business interests between the US and UK for which HM The Queen awarded Dr. Kane the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services.

Dr. Kane is a citizen of both the USA and the UK and resides in Westlake Village, California.