Roger Allen

A little about me. I'm a husband to Judy, father of 4 married adult children, and 15 grandchildren (7 boys and 8 girls). I live in Cedar City, Utah where I love spending time outdoors hiking, skiing, and running, especially mountain trails. As a young psychologist, I co-founded along with my father, the late C. Kay Allen, The Human Development Institute through which I provided thousands of hours of individual and marriage counseling to a diverse client population. I supervised the work of other professionals and managed team of 12 full and part-time staff, plus a large volunteer network. During this time, I also created and taught, along with other HDI staff, experiential programs in personal growth which were taught in a number of cities around the country. Several years into my career, I co-founded the Cetner of Organizational Design in which I consulted many Fortune 500 companies (AT&T Capital, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Honeywell, Proctor & Gamble, Hewlett Packard) as well as small and medium size businesses. Our purpose was to help leaders define their vision, imprive their leadership, develop their teams, and create high performance work cultures in which each employee could be a contributing partner in the business. I have also certified over 1200 trainers and consultants from around the world to use our 70+ leadership and team development modules. But my deepest passion has always been personal and family development. In spite of my consulting success, I've come back to personal development again and again. I've written a couple of books, The Hero's Choice: Leading from the Inside Out and Raising Responsible, Emotionally Mature Children as well as several e-books on topics of personal growth, marriage and parenting. Officially retired, I'm now spending my time converting curriculum I've taught through the years into online video programs. "In my career as a specialist providing treatment to adolescents and their families, I have seen many parenting theories, modules and books but nothing which rises to the stature of this work by Dr. Allen." Michael E. Berrett, Ph.D., Psychologist, nationally known clinical teacher, and CEO of Center of Change "Literally thousands of professionals are exposed each year to Roger Allen's material and the ripple effect has changed people's lives, made work easy, faster and better. Almost weekly I get rave reviews on his material. I cannot say enough about this man and his writings. I have purchased cases of his books and material to share with others." Jim Ullery, President, Center for Organizational Energy.