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Neil Mahoney, PhD was born and raised in Roxbury, Boston. He grew up in Mission Hill. He attended grade school at Mission Grammar School, and he graduated from Mission High. He graduated from Boston University (GI Bill, Korean War) in the 1950’s and moved to San Francisco in 1964. He holds multiple degrees in addition to his PhD in Public Policy, including two Master’s degrees, one in Experiential Education and another in Clinical Psychology He also holds a Clinical Hypnotherapy certification he attained in his 70’s. Education has been the prime mover in his life, ranging across the spectrum of classes and ages, from individuals to large groups, serving at one time as Chairman of the Landmark faculty, as well as the National Director of the Breakthrough Foundation’s Youth at Risk. After his retirement from Landmark, he created Golden Gate Consulting and designed and led programs for some of the top 500 companies in the United States, such as IBM, Warner Lambert, Schering Plough and Mobil Oil, to name a few. His passion and lifelong study has been the interconnection between mind and brain, the source of human behavior. The Connection is the reflection on the hard work of building an enterprise, the challenges that come with it and the very human connection that gets us through the rough spots in life.