Walter Bellin

Walter Bellin has always been a pioneer. Currently Chairman and CEO of Corporate Crossroads, he came to his successful position via a long road of innovative and groundbreaking work in psychology and personal development. While a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, Bellin became interested in the fields of human development and transpersonal psychology. At the time, these emerging fields had very little formal recognition, but Walter Bellin saw the immense potential presented in the works of psychologists like Friedrich Perls, Abraham Maslow, Virginia Satir, Carl Rogers, Alexander Lowen, and Milton Erickson. Using the works of these psychologists in combination with the scientifically proven benefits of meditation, Walter Bellin produced his own personal development workshops and seminars. Bellin was invited to present his work at research institutions and universities around the country and abroad, including Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in the United States and the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. In 1980, Walter Bellin created a consulting organization with the goal of developing permanent personal development training centers. By 1988, he had centers in five cities in Australia, two in New Zealand, and one in London, England, and approximately 35,000 people had attended the organization’s entry level course, called Crossroads - A Chance to Change. Walter Bellin then split the organization into individual training centers, and each trainer became an independent consultant. Building on the guidance they had received from Bellin, these consultants went on to have highly successful careers working for companies like the McKinsey Consultancy Group, starting their own companies, and publishing books on consulting methodology. Walter Bellin went on to expand his business to include corporate consulting. When he began this in 1986, very little was known about the process of effecting organizational culture change, so Bellin spent several years adapting his programme for individuals so it would be effective in a corporate setting for both private and public sector organizations. Now, over 10,000 individuals have attended Walter Bellin’s courses on leadership, and many more have attended his workshops and programmes on organizational culture change.