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Howard Glasser is the Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Success Foundation and creator of The Nurtured Heart Approach®. He is dedicated to awakening the greatness in all children and in particular the world’s intense and challenging children.

The approach’s core methodologies, which were born out of his extensive clinical work, effectively inspire difficult children to channel their intensity in successful ways. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of parents, educators, and treatment and child-advocacy agencies have used this approach with great results.

Howard is the author of Transforming the Difficult Child, currently the top-selling book on ADHD; Notching Up the Nurtured Heart Approach: The New Inner Wealth Initiative, a leading book on school interventions; and All Children Flourishing, on using the Approach with all children, difficult or not. Four of his eight books are in the top one percent of all books on Amazon, confirming the need and relevance of his message and methodology. He is currently working on his latest release entitled Igniting Greatness.

Howard has been called one of the most influential living persons working to reduce children’s reliance on psychiatric medications. His work also supports children in resisting addictive substances. He has been a featured guest on CNN, a consultant for 48 Hours,Featured in Esquire magazine and has consulted for numerous psychiatric, judicial, and educational programs. He currently instructs educators, parents and therapists in this work through live presentations and Internet-based courses via the Nurtured Heart Online University. Although he has done extensive doctoral work in Clinical Psychology and Educational Leadership, his own years as a difficult child have contributed the most to his understanding of the needs of challenging children.

Though the Nurtured Heart Approach® began as a means for helping challenging children, all parents and educators, even those with well-behaved children, can benefit from learning how to inspire thriving relationships. He welcomes you to the Nurtured Heart Approach® and in finding a new path to greatness.

Howard Glasser is the founder of Children’s Success Foundation and creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach, which is being used in hundreds of thousands of homes and classrooms around the world.

He is author of Transforming the Difficult Child, currently the top-selling book on the topic of ADHD; The Inner Wealth Initiative, one of the leading books on school interventions and his most recent book, YOU Are Oprah - Igniting the Fires of Greatness.

Four of his seven books are in the top 1% of all books on Amazon.com.

Howard has been a featured guest on CNN and a consultant for 48 Hours. His work is being successfully applied to programs with Meth addicts to the Military - from Marital Counseling to Mentoring programs - from Headstarts to High schools, from Treatment programs to Eldercare and from Fostercare programs to programs fostering inner wealth in infants and todlers.

He is extremely thrilled about indirectly being responsible for keeping more children off of psychiatric medications than perhaps any other living person - especially by way of so many schools adopting the Nurtured Heart Approach.

His wonderful daughter Alice has done the cover art for four of his books is now a painting student at Rhode Island School of Design.