Elijah Levy, Ph.D.
Educator, Author, Trainer and Consultant to Health Care and Mental Health Organizations
Your vision reveals the distance you must cover
I provide consultation to organizations interested in launching their business initiatives to
improve organizational performance and operate optimally through genuine,
desired and enduring change.
I have been teaching in the undergraduate and graduate school of business at University of Redlands the last 30 years. My doctorate degree in clinical psychology enabled me to function as a clinical and program director in inpatient psychiatric programs where I developed my leadership and managerial skills. I understand organizational behavior, employee motivation and how to create work environments that pull for the best in employees. Together we can improve organizational performance through systematic analysis of existing organizational processes and developing specific plans for improvement. The multidisciplinary nature of organizational behavior reflects employee attitudes, values, capabilities and learning capacities.
Unless you act on your ideas to maximize organizational performance, your employees and organization will continue to operate at the just good enough level and the gap between current and optimal performance will widen
For your organization to function optimally, management is tasked with creating outstanding work teams and departments that can effectively respond to your customer's varied needs in domestic and global markets. Managers must be skilled at coordinating work efforts through designing structures that sustain stable relationships and processes.
In addition, I offer training to health care/mental health care organizations invested in training their health care providers to become culturally and linguistically competent providers. Since health care providers are at higher risk for developing compassion fatigue, I conduct self-care training to engender self-awareness in health care providers to establish and maintain healthy, wellness lifestyles.
For a no fee consultation, please email or
call me at (562) 230-3334
Testimonials
Is Your Organization Operating at the "Just Good Enough" Level
Health Care Organizations: Train Your Employees to Become Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Care Providers
Dr. Levy is a deeply thoughtful, caring individual who encourages and inspires all who come in contact with him to pursue their aspirations with conviction and courage. He emphasizes high ethical standards, critical thinking, and respect for diversity. His concern for the needs and well-being of others is rare and genuine. I am and will always be extremely grateful for the support and guidance he has provided me.
Dan
I had the good fortune of meeting Elijah when I applied for an adjunct teaching position at the University of Redlands. The university assigned him conduct my in-person interview and teaching demonstration. I had limited teaching experience at the time and, were it not for Elijah's calming, encouraging demeanor, I might not have performed well and, as a result, may have decided teaching was not for me. He was (and is) a model of intellectual vigor tempered with authentic humility and empathy that I took with me when engaging with my students in the years to come. I am deeply thankful to have met him at that critical stage in my personal and professional journey and know that the impact I have had the opportunity to make in the lives of my students is in part due to his influence on me.
Jeremy
Courses/Training
Teambuilding: You, Me & Them Becomes an Awesome Us
Becoming a Culturally Competent Health Care Provider
Why Self-Care Matters
Life Coaching
Developing Outstanding Managerial Skills
Understanding the value of practicing effective self-care to engender a wellness lifestyle is critical for individuals in health care settings. The dimensions of wellness include social, physical, spiritual, emotional and intellectual. To lead a life imbued with meaning and purpose, one must pursue activities that promote and maintain healthy engagement and balance in the domains of life. To live fully and authentically, self-awareness must be generated to design a personal a wellness plan to navigate the undesired changes and challenges inherent in being a competent, compassionate and empathic health care provider. We live in a society where we’re expected to work long hours, volunteer for projects, not vacation, be productive and chase promotions, neglect domains of our lives and operate from an urgency driven paradigm of maximizing productivity. Pursuing this life philosophy ultimately prevents us from engaging in opportunities for self-care and it compromises our health.
Self-care is defined as a multifaceted process of purposeful engagement in strategies that promote healthy functioning and enhance well-being. It is vital for building resilience toward stressors in life that can’t be eliminated. Initiating a program to care for your mind and body will lead to a more meaningful life and not leave you feeling overwhelmed, fatigued and ill-equipped to handle life's inevitable challenges. Thus, it is important to assess how you're caring for yourself in several different domains of your life to ensure you are caring for your mind, body, and spirit.
Self-Care begins with you asking the questions that matter the most to your life and includes engaging in activities that matter the most to your life; that bring you lasting spiritual, social, emotional and physical happiness. It requires making an investment in YOU; a deep and personal commitment to operating as a whole, integrated you where all of your needs are met. It is a conscious act you take to promote your physical, spiritual, mental and emotional health. Once you feel whole you will imbue your work and life with meaning and purpose.
Length of Training: Three Hours
Learning Objectives
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Understanding why self-care matters; learning to ask the questions that matter the most about your life
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Creating a self-care plan that integrates the following domains of your life: spiritual, emotional, physical and social
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Learn how to incorporate leisure skills into your life and how to create genuine, enduring happiness
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Learn how to balance life-work in our hurried, urgency driven society
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Understanding why you are entitled to positive emotions
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Appreciating the physiology of the stress response and how it can contribute to stress disorders, anxiety and cardiovascular disease
Why Self-Care Matters: I Deserve to Feel Great About My Life
