Jan 13 2025
Dr. Joshua Coleman is the leading psychologist and keynote speaker on family dynamics, estrangement, communication, and mending relationships.
Dr. Joshua Coleman is the leading expert for families and individuals dealing with estrangement, parental alienation, couples’ conflict, and other life challenges.
He is a frequent guest on the Today Show and NPR and has been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS, Dr. Phil, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television.
He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Dr. Joshua Coleman is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Dr. Joshua Coleman’s fees.
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Dr. Joshua Coleman is a top psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, NBC THINK, The Behavioral Scientist, CNN, MarketWatch, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Variety, and more.
As a side passion, Dr. Coleman also writes music for television. His music has appeared on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Lethal Weapon, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Longmire, Shameless, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and many other shows.
Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. is the author of four books: Rules of Estrangement, The Marriage Makeover, The Lazy Husband, and When Parents Hurt. Popular around the globe, his books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Croatian. Click here to see a detailed overview of his select works.
Additionally, he is the co-editor of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. is a seasoned public speaker regularly appearing in person at universities, on television, and through radio. He has given talks to the faculties at Harvard, the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry, and other academic institutions as well as corporate and private audiences.
Find out how to hire Dr. Joshua Coleman to appear at your next event. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group to inquire about Dr. Joshua Coleman’s availability and cost. When booking Dr. Joshua Coleman for an event, we need to know the type of venue and location the event will take place. Dr. Joshua Coleman is a popular choice for corporate events, private events, and virtual events. So, you can click the Check Availability button or contact us and an MPG Dr. Joshua Coleman booking agent will get back to you within 48 hours.
How much to book Dr. Joshua Coleman depends on the type of event. So, the cost to hire Dr. Joshua Coleman for corporate or private events is available by contacting a Mollie Plotkin Group Agent. Notably, Dr. Joshua Coleman is available for conferences, festivals, private parties, and events. Just contact the Mollie Plotkin Group and tell the booking agent the proposed date, time, and location.
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Along with the Speaking Topics included below, you can contact us to inquire about Dr. Coleman’s other keynote speaking topics: The Psychology of Money, Mental Illness in the Family, 5 Steps To Fighting Fair in Love & Marriage, and The New Grandparent.
How can you adjust your communication strategies for modern employees?
While most of Dr. Coleman’s research and publications explore estrangement, at the heart of his studies is effective communication through new societal changes. More specifically, he looks at how we’ve arrived at today’s landscape.
For corporations, we see this change in a new era of employees who don’t buy into company culture and team mentality like previous generations. While organizations want people back in the office, united as a team, and working together, that can’t happen until you understand why employees are resisting it. Once you do, discourse becomes easier. In this keynote, Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. helps corporations, and the people that constitute them, better communicate in modern society.
While many parents want their child to be their best friend, nothing compels today’s adult children to stay in contact with a parent beyond an internal desire to maintain that relationship.
Even if parents aren’t estranged from their children, they still have to navigate a new territory previous parents didn’t. The framework that guided families for millennia…is gone. Today’s parents want a closer relationship with their children but have less authority, don’t have the same tools for engagement, and need to understand the therapeutic language their children have been brought up around.
For many parents, if their adult child doesn’t want to be close or spend time with them, many problems can arise.
People aged 55 to 60 are divorcing more than anyone. These divorces can result in division and estrangement between parents and adult children.
Divorce in general often creates a fundamental reshaping of alliances, which can place parents at risk for greater distance from their children. Additionally, it creates the opportunity for parental alienation where one parent consciously or unconsciously turns their child against the other parent. Both of which become more complex with adult children.
In this keynote, Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. will explain how to best approach your mid-life split, conflict resolution with children, and post-divorce life.
Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. is a great choice for wellness retreats. At these events, Dr. Coleman can talk to attendees about the best approach to maintaining marriages, handling divorce, resolving estrangement, managing mental illness in the family, and any other topics that can help attendees alleviate some of the weight on their shoulders.
For the second year in a row, we had a full room of members eager to hear your presentation. Having attended both years, we are still getting requests for speeches of this caliber. In addition, the following are some of the direct comments from our evaluations:
Dr. Coleman was 5 out of 5 for excellent topic and quality of presentation. Very informative!
The topic and the speaker were excellent-we need more of these!
A subject everyone can gain from.
Good balance of information and humor.
Thank you for making a difference for our families. – Carolyn M Bauer, Las Madres Speaker Event Committee, Campbell, California
He always has helpful & thoughtful advice. I think he is such a hit with our viewers because his advice is practical. He gives actual strategies to help you work through difficult situations. I also know when we have a segment planned with Dr. Coleman, it will be great! – Jennifer Walters, Segment Producer, ABC TV View from the Bay
Thanks so much for everything! – Christine Ferraro, Writer, Sesame Street
He’s smart, thoughtful, accommodating, and looks great on camera! Together, we created an informative and entertaining piece for 20/20. – Ann Varney, Producer, ABC 20/20
Has your adult child cut off contact with you?
How can you heal the pain and start to build a bridge back to them?
Labelled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion typically tells a one-sided story of parents who got what they deserved or overly entitled adult children who wrongly blame their parents. However, the reasons for alienation are far more complex and varied. As a result of rising rates of individualism, an increasing cultural emphasis on happiness, growing economic insecurity, and a historically recent perception that parents are obstacles to personal growth, many parents find themselves forever shut out of the lives of their adult children and grandchildren.
This unique book helps parents work through the pain, shame, and sense of loss that they feel when their relationship with their older or adult children has not turned out as they hoped or expected
Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we lose the opportunity to be the parent we desperately want to be and must mourn the loss of a harmonious relationship with our child. Although this situation may seem hopeless, When Parents Hurt is designed to help us through this intensely difficult situation with compassion and thoughtfulness.
