Dr. Beth Erickson

Born the youngest of eight children in a traditional Scandanavian family, Beth was destined to be a scholar, and she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota where she studied how to deliberately generate psychological development in adults. At her final oral examination, she was told by her six-person examination committee that her ground-breaking research had advanced the state of knowledge in her field by ten years.

A consumate scholar and researcher, she completed two years’ postdoctoral training in family systems therapy from The Family Institute of Chicago, which is part of Northwestern University. Studies show that the culture of an organization, particularly the way people feel about their work climate, can account for nearly 30% of business performance - or lack of it. Everything Dr. Beth has learned about creating functional families maps directly over to work systems. Capitalizing on her experience, she currently works as a business consultant assessing and intervening in toxic corporate climates. She takes harmful and even noxious aspects of the workplace and makes it rewarding to go to work again. She helps teams of employees create a support grid that eventually can permeate the entire business. As a result of this, absenteeism, corporate sabotage, low bottom line profits, medical costs, and turn over decrease. At the same time, innovation, trust, comraderie, team work, and job satisfaction increase.

Let’s face it. Work is an important part of our lives. It is integral to sustaining our life, health, and happiness. If it is healthy, it allows us to thrive while the businesses we work in grow. If employees are healthy, happy, and productive, their self-esteem will increase. This is how a support grid is built from the ground up. Then a virtuous, rather than a viscious, cycle develops.

Her ultimate goal is to develop more functional work systems. She does this through on-site consultation, executive coaching, and her unique approach to team building. Her primary focus is increasing people’s job satisfaction while improving bottom lines. She is an expert on team building, creating positive cultures and neutralizing negative ones, teaching the power of positive thinking, and leadership development. Generally calling executives, employees, and their families to bring out their best, people often refer to Dr. Beth as “The Best Part of Your Life Doctor.”

A highly skilled motivational speaker, she has worked with audiences large and small, beginning in 1973 as a mentee of Dr. William Glasser. From business groups, lawyers and mental health professionals, educators, church groups and clergy, physicians and other hospital personnel, corrections workers, and to anybody who has a need for a topic grounded in psychological concepts.

Dr. Beth Erickson hosts ”Relationships 101″ on webtalkradio.net and explores relationships of all kinds by taking into consideration how they add to or detract from our quality of life. Dr. Erickson’s role as a psychotherapist gives her a unique advantage as an interviewer on radio. Because Beth is well aware that researchers have found that loneliness itself can be life-threatening, her show is a “God-send.” People who have been interviewed by Dr. Erickson say she is attentive, easy to listen to, and asks incisive questions.

Dr. Beth has written three books. Helping Men Change: The Role of the Female Therapist - this book was the first of its kind in an era where it was assumed that male therapists could treat female patients but not the reverse. Her second book is Longing For Dad: Father Loss and Its Impact - this book is still in print after ten years in the English, Czech, Chinese, and Turkish languages. Her third book, Marriage Isn’t For Sissies: 7 Simple Keys to Unlocking The Best Part of Your Life, Dr. Erickson provides a profound and practical guide to building a marriage designed to go the distance. In addition, Dr. Erickson has published over a dozen juried articles for professionals and has written chapters for two different editions of the classic family therapy text Ethnicity and Family Therapy.

To Learn more about Dr. Beth Erickson, visit her online: www.askdrbetherickson.com, www.drbethrickson.com and www.webtalkradio.net

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