Dorothy Martin-Neville, PhD
Unwinding the noise. Reclaiming the soul. Redefining health and leadership.
In bringing my vision to the next level, it is no longer focused solely on impacting one leader at a time but on impacting one generation after another.
That means bringing multiple groups of leaders to the point of owning their spiritual purpose, their true leadership, and consequently their health, giving them the ability to transform their world.
The next stage begins...
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GIVING BACK THROUGH BOARDS
As a partner in a variety of other boards, I have been able to support, educate, and guide, small business owners in achieving, if not exceeding, their dreams.
Mission for Million Children Rising, Inc
Our mission is to provide a home and educational opportunities for every unaccompanied refugee child that arrives in Europe, starting with Athens.
National Speakers Association
Enhancing the business of speaking.
American Heart Association
Circle of Red is Go Red for Women’s annual giving society, made up of passionate individuals who are in the fight against heart disease and stroke in women to win.
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame honors the achievements of women by celebrating their legacies and telling their powerful stories, inspiring women and girls to realize their own limitless potential.
BIOGRAPHY
Dorothy A. Martin-Neville, PhD | Speaker, Author, Consultant/Master Coach, Trainer
As a psychotherapist, Dorothy began her professional career in private practice for 20+ years seeing 42 patients a week with a six-month waiting list. After three years, she recognized her skill in seeing patterns others miss including the reality that those with certain personality styles were each presenting with the same diseases. After others saw it as coincidences, she followed her own path (a common phenomenon) to further understand it, and pursued certification in nine modalities of mind/body and integrative health. After combining the best traits of each with her own experience, she created her own method of Energy Medicine, the W.I.S.E. Method™.
At the request of those waiting to work with her she began a 6-week course which evolved into a 4-year program in Energy Medicine through her company, The Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences, LLC. With students flying in from throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, her students would do their 3rd & 4th years medical internships in whatever state they came from. What began as a side-gig of a 6-week course she did on her own, became an Institute with a near-million-dollar payroll.
After her oldest graduated from Georgetown and dropping her younger child off at Cornell University, she drove home to an empty house and, realizing that although she was traditionally highly successful, once she took time to stop, she realized she was also unhappy. As a result, and knowing the spiritual, emotional, and physical implications of that, she called American Airlines and got a one-way ticket to Anguilla, BWI, put her home on the market, and let her office know she was moving to the Caribbean in 3-weeks.
Once there she spent the time, finally, to grieve her marriage and divorce, her life in an orphanage, her adoption into a violent alcoholic home, being raised in the housing projects of South Boston, and being informed that in spite of an excellent academic standing she could not attend any nursing school in the country because her high school was an inner-city, unaccredited school. After the period of deep reflection through Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief, it was easy to recognize her life as a Catholic nun, an international airline stewardess, wife, mother, founder of 4 companies, and so much more in perspective, recognizing the bravery and transformation of transitions, and the freedom of choice. Consequently, she lovingly traveled back to the USA for 10 days every two months to teach at her Institute for the 10 years she lived on Anguilla where working from 5:00am-noon and swimming 2 hours a day in the Caribbean Sea and dancing 6 nights a week was the ideal lifestyle. Water and music are intrinsic parts of my life. Combined, they are a gift! They were a gift!
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After receiving a call from a former student, the head of gerontology and energy medicine research at the University of Connecticut Medical School, asking her to return to the USA, eventually become co-chair of the advisory board of a multi-million dollar Frontier Medicine Grant, oversee energy medicine research across the country, as well as become a clinical instructor at the medical school, and receive NIH funding to research her work, she returned. Watching miracles happen, she became a pioneer in CAM in the United States.
After closing her Institutes, the second being The Institute for Energy Medicine Research, she chose to move from training leaders in medicine and healing to supporting leaders in industry. With first-hand knowledge of the challenges facing leaders in business and in life, she has supported leaders from all levels of success, from Park Ave firms, heads of hospital divisions, to entrepreneurs in small towns in Maine. Her natural focus on Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Quantum Mechanics to develop healthier responses to stress, risk, and life challenges call her clients to far greater success, peace, and joy in life and business.
Strategic Integrative Health Architect for Leadership Teams
Most corporate consultants teach tactics. Dorothy works at the level of architecture — the belief systems, physiological patterns, and cultural designs that determine whether leadership is sustainable or quietly consuming itself.
With 40 years integrating psychotherapy, integrative medicine, and executive advisory work, she offers organizations something they cannot build internally because the intersection of stress physiology, belief architecture, and leadership culture is not a single discipline. It is her discipline.
The Problem She Solves
Workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. Burned-out employees are 2.6x more likely to leave and 63% more likely to take sick leave. Standard wellness interventions assume the problem lives inside individuals. It doesn't. It lives in the architecture.
A leader operating in chronic stress activates threat responses across entire teams — not through incompetence, but through physiology. The nervous system of the leader becomes the nervous system of the organization.
Signature Framework: Sustainable Leadership Architecture
Dorothy's work operates at three levels simultaneously: stress physiology, belief architecture, and culture design — intervening where individual leadership patterns have become embedded in organizational norms, performance expectations, and unspoken rules.
This is not a wellness program. It is a strategic intervention into the conditions that determine whether your investment in leadership produces compounding returns or compounding costs.
Speaking & Advisory Topics
- Burnout as a Leadership Design Flaw
- The Hidden Health Costs of Leadership Style
- Sustainable Power: Leading Without Collapse
- Why Your Best People Are Quietly Leaving
PHILOSOPHY
In a life filled with change, transition, and unexpected adventures and growth, she has been led by an inner knowing, or intuition, of when it was time to grow to the next level. Being a planner and yet spontaneous, a problem solver while recognizing problems most don’t yet see, identifying patterns when others see isolated instances, she has come to see life as a gift that is unfolded in stages, as we are ready.
After decades of education, spiritual growth, and simply living life, she has created a method of working that calls others to:
- Spiritual reconnection and passion
- Transpersonal psychology and loving self-awareness
- Simplify their lives while adding purpose
- Come alive with meaning and intent
- Reclaim their health, spiritually, emotionally, physically, and financially
- Understand and achieve true success – one business or stage at a time.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Through the lens that everything is energy in Quantum Physics and Neuroplasticity, Dorothy speaks on the need to release the stories that are holding you back and to think far beyond whatever limits you. She makes it clear, growing calls us to continuously open to new paradigm shifts as a way of life. All this to demonstrate that through understanding your purpose and your natural leadership skills, along with your strengths and vulnerabilities, you are far more prepared to have far greater impact and influence in making this world a better place.
With so many people surviving rather than thriving regardless of income or wealth, she is called to share the message of unlimited possibilities, miracles happening every day, and the need for mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and health as the tools to living your best career, best relationship, and best life.
- Owning Your Leadership: The Five Archetypes of Leadership
- Visionary Women: The Changing Face of Power and Leadership
- How Your Leadership DNA Impacts Your Health
- Legacy of Love and Reinvention
- From Orphanage to the Board Room
APPROACH
Dr. Dorothy Martin-Neville works with leaders who have achieved success yet sense that something essential has slipped out of alignment. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, reinvention, identity, and inner coherence, where strategy alone no longer provides clarity, authority, or peace. With decades of experience guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through transition, she now helps leaders understand not just how they lead, but who they want to be as a leader.
Many of us reach a point where we know that what has been working no longer does. Who we have been no longer reflects who we have become. It’s at that point that a reinvention is necessary. Whether due to divorce, death of a loved one, a new position, or simply recognizing that we have outgrown our current situation, requires not just a transition doing the same thing in a new context, it requires a deeper review. A search for the self that got lost in the push for success – the passion, creativity, and joy that got lost in the performance of what’s expected and now routine.
Her approach is grounded, precise, and deeply human. Rather than offering performance tools or borrowed frameworks, Dr. Dorothy guides leaders back to internal clarity, energetic stability, and authentic presence – changing the legacy we are leaving behind as well as the present we are called to claim. This is where leadership, and life, stops being rote and begins to feel natural, sustainable, and alive.
As a result, she brings extensive wisdom, knowledge, humor, and experience to the table in calling leaders through their transitions to discover their spiritual purpose and their health. In the process, they standardly rediscover the joy and peace they may have lost as they strove for success and financial stability.
TESTIMONIALS
Real transformations from real people. Discover how my clients have achieved breakthrough results and unlocked their potential.
Through my work with Dr. Dorothy, I have been able to shift my personal energy and really step into being the leader that I've always wanted to be in a more powerful way.
Founder of The Expansion Lab Inner Circle
Dr. Dorothy is a powerhouse with a special gift to see right through you, to get to the heart of the matter.
CEO, Conscious Capital Wealth Management
Inspirational, motivating, moving, and laugh out loud funny – that’s a tough combination to beat!
Dr. Dorothy has an uncanny ability to immediately connect with her audience. As a norm, she gets long-lasting, standing ovations.
Assistant Director at the U.S. Small Business Administration
Dr. Dorothy is the real deal. She is a world class speaker and visionary worthy of any stage in the world.
Trial Lawyer
In life you often believe you get only one bite at the apple, one chance to get it right. Dr. Dorothy has shown me we have unlimited bites, and it’s never too late!
Dorothy offers the kind of rare character, principles and values of being a dedicated and successful leader among leaders. She exemplifies the following attributes, that are fully aligned with LeadHERship Global:
- Collaboration: Harnessing collective strength to drive meaningful change.
- Authenticity: Embracing individuality and fostering genuine connections.
- Excellence: Creating opportunities for intentional personal and professional growth.
- Empowerment: Encouraging and equipping each member to bring bold visions to life.
Chairwoman of LeadHERship Global
MEDIA QUESTIONS
- What is it that called you into the field of energy medicine/quantum physics? Was there a pivotal moment?
- To help us better understand, can you provide an example of how neuroplasticity works?
- What have you seen as the common issues, if they exist, for leaders in fully claiming their own style of leadership?
- As a coach or consultant, what have you seen as a key resistance when working with high level leaders?
- Where did your five leadership styles and Leadership Self-Assessment Tool come from? How did you develop those?
- You mention that we each have all five of these styles yet in various proportions. Is it possible to develop other styles?
- For high-net-worth leaders, what role do their values play in their work, in creating a legacy, and in quantum physics?
- How do you deal with the feelings of emptiness, loneliness, or disconnection that so many high-net-worth people have despite their financial success?
- It is frequently said that high-net-worth leaders have lost touch with the person they were or thought they would be. How do you bring them back to that place?
- In your emphasis on purpose, fulfillment, and creating a legacy, what changes need to occur for those to become the driving force?
TV & MEDIA
She Left The Convent & Became a 100K Coach (The Truth About Reinvention)
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership
Putting in the Work to Live Your Best Life
Anything is Possible with Dorothy A. Martin-Neville, Ph.D
BOOKS
Life is a gift we are meant to live not survive. For many of us, that means a series of dreams, each calling us to become more of who we are. Doing so supports health on all levels: emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
My dream is to take that message to as many as possible through my best-selling books, speaking on global stages, tv & media, and on-line programs. There is no limit as life and technology keep evolving!
Dreams Are Only the Beginning: Becoming who you were meant to be
Dreams are a necessity if we are to become everything we are meant to be. Our soul speaks to us through the dreams and longings we have along the journey, calling us to grow further, to risk more, and to come alive in ways we never would have thought possible, one dream at a time.
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Dreams Are Only the Beginning: Becoming who you were meant to be – Workbook Edition
In this Companion Workbook, (the follow-up guide to her best-selling book), which is focused on you, you will find helpful, step-by-step guidelines to support you in achieving or reclaiming your dreams, as well as what you truly want in your life, and who you want to become. You will be taken through the process to uncover your dreams and your passions.
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Real Women Change The World: Letting The Good Girl Die So The Real Woman Can Live
As young girls move into womanhood they are called to make a choice to remain that Good Girl who never makes waves, makes people uncomfortable, or has too strong a voice or to become a Real Woman who has no desire to make waves or make people uncomfortable either but instead is focusing on creating a world that supports her best self.
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FORGING AHEAD: By Taking A Step Back
A Transformative Guide for Female Executives Ready to Forge a Path to Fulfillment, Impact, and Purpose.
Forging Ahead provides a comprehensive framework and practical strategies to help you navigate these challenges and unlock your true potential as a leader and change maker.
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Your Soul Sings Your Body Dances: Listening to Their Conversation
As embodied souls, as pure essence in human form, we are on a journey that is always beginning anew and yet continuing from where it was. I thank each of you for the challenge, the mirror and the love. May we all celebrate the glory of the walk, in tears of laughter and joy.
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Unkiditional Love
Parenting is not easy and yet it can fill you in ways nothing else does. Learn to see it from a perspective that says dads make great parents, and are gifts beyond words to their kids, boys or girls. Moms too often do not realize that they are not meant to be forgotten in this process and are encouraged to find a way to celebrate their life not just their parenting, helping everyone in the household win.
View on AmazonTHE LIFE AUDIT CONVERSATION
Ninety minutes to locate exactly where your aliveness went, and what it will take to bring it back.
You already know something is no longer working. The role still fits. The metrics still move. But you are no longer fully inside your own life. You have outgrown the version of yourself who built it, and you do not yet know who you are becoming. That is what this conversation is for.
A focused 90-minute conversation, by phone or Zoom, designed to do four things:
- Locate exactly where in your life you have stopped telling yourself the truth.
- Surface the version of yourself you have been performing, and the one waiting underneath.
- Name what wants to come alive next, in language clear enough to act on.
- Map the first real moves toward the reinvention you already know is coming.
What you leave with
Clarity on paper, not just a feeling. Within 72 hours of the call, you receive a written Life Audit Report — a document that names what you said, what Dr. Dorothy heard underneath it, and the first moves toward the version of you waiting on the other side.
It is yours to keep. Most people read it more than once.