Non fiction books and authors

Psychiatry in techno colors: A psychiatrist's memoir of lessons learned about the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety and depression

Neil. Liebowitz graduated as an Echols scholar and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1978. He worked as a research assistant at Stanford University during a year off from college in 1977. He graduated from Stony Brook University Medical School in 1982 including psychiatry clerkship at Long Island Jewish/ Hillside Hospital during the release of DSM III. A Psychiatry sub-internship was completed at Columbia University Psychiatric Institute in 1981. He completed his psychiatric residency at Yale University in 1986. These dates are significant in that they mark a period of dramatic chance in the field of psychiatry. 

After completion of training he joined the Psychiatry faculty at the University of Connecticut. He opened the Connecticut Anxiety and Depression treatment center in 1994. His peripatetic training provided for a diversity of learning experiences with a need to make sense of very diverse and divergent expert opinions. He has won many awards including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. His memoir, Psychiatry in Techno Colors: A psychiatrist’s memoir of lessons learned about the diagnosis and treatment of Anxiety & Depression is his effort to summarize his clinical knowledge gained over a long career. It is written for the lay person using case histories and avoids cumbersome references. As it covers over 40 years of experience, it reads like a partial history of modern psychiatry with changes in diagnoses, and controversies about stigma, and medication challenges.

At this stage of my career, I now focus solely on helping organizations explore ways they can find productive, loyal employees from talent pools that have traditionally been marginalized. I have been doing in depth research in this area for the last four years.

For more than 25 years, I’ve been an author, speaker and president of Smart Workforce Strategies, a consulting firm that helps organizations find solutions to critical skill shortages and risks of knowledge loss. In the course of my career, I have also been:

• A research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and an adjunct professor at Babson College, teaching MBA’s “Leading & Managing Change.”
• An nationally-recognized keynote speaker and co-author of the The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management from McGraw-Hill.
• Author of the widely praised Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce from Oxford University Press.
• A veteran researcher who has conducted over 600 interviews in knowledge-intensive organizations developing solutions for the knowledge retention and workforce development challenges posed by Baby Boomer retirements and changing values of Millennials.
• Author of Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today’s Market, based on more than 50 case studies of Millennials who have successfully launched their careers.
• Widely quoted in the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, S. News & World Report, and the Boston Globe.
• Interviewed on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “Talk of the Nation.”
• A former member of the research staff at both Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
• Co-author (with J.F. Rockart) of Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use from Dow Jones-Irwin.
• Presenter of dozens of keynote talks and workshops in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America
• A widely-published writer whose work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Sloan Management Review, The Boston Globe, Newsweek International, Organizational Dynamics, Computerworld, and Magazine.
• Recipient of a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Hidden Talent offers innovative approaches and practical solutions for tapping overlooked talent pools. The book’s 10 engaging case studies show what businesses – and their partners – have learned from employing refugees, the formerly incarcerated, or people with disabilities.

Hidden Talent combines the perspectives from senior executives, workforce partners, and individuals who have traditionally been ignored. It is a hands-on manual for how to get started.