Bill Harvey

About Bill Harvey

Bill first experienced the Zone, that space where innovative and successful ideas and actions flow out of you effortlessly, as a young child. The son of legendary orchestra leader/master of ceremonies Ned Harvey and former Ziegfield Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four, dancing with showgirls and exchanging lines with comedic greats like Jack E. Leonard. He liked this feeling of being “on” and wanted to learn how to be “on” more often. And so began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same.

Along the way he anchored his dream with a degree in philosophy, the first school subject he had ever loved. He began to mate

About Bill Harvey

Bill first experienced the Zone, that space where innovative and successful ideas and actions flow out of you effortlessly, as a young child. The son of legendary orchestra leader/master of ceremonies Ned Harvey and former Ziegfield Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four, dancing with showgirls and exchanging lines with comedic greats like Jack E. Leonard. He liked this feeling of being “on” and wanted to learn how to be “on” more often. And so began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same.

Along the way he anchored his dream with a degree in philosophy, the first school subject he had ever loved. He began to materialize the dream by founding the Human Effectiveness Institute, with the goal of sharing the techniques he had learned and developed as his own internal system for bringing himself to his highest level of creative effectiveness.

Bill’s ideas didn’t all come from the inside, as he was inspired by something that Milton Berle had told him: “Always steal from the best, kid.” He was turned on to Alan Watts, Buddhism, Zen, and hipness by his adopted older brother, the multitalented Bill Heyer, second trumpet in Ned’s band.

Unique and ahead of its time, Bill’s first book, Mind Magic: The Science of Microcosmology, met with rave reviews in the late 70s and was lauded by thousands of readers whose lives, they say, were changed by it. The book has been used at 34 universities including NYU, UCLA and West Point, and by numerous organizations. It is now available in its 6th edition, Mind Magic: Doorways into Higher Consciousness.

In You Are The Universe: Imagine That, Bill has expanded the frame of reference of his lifelong study of consciousness to focus more on the spiritual dimension of life.

With a brilliant mind for research, innovation and invention, Bill started his career in the media business with a dream of making one-way media into something that the audience co-creates. With his trailblazing vision, he accurately described today’s media reality with his MediaWorld 1990 report to the industry, and in his widely-read Media Science Newsletter. He invented many things arcane to the average person but talismans in the media field, including some now written into FCC regulations. He holds four issued US patents and has consulted for over 100 Fortune 500 companies. A leader in the field as media morphed into being more interactive, putting the viewer in charge, Bill’s peers recognized him with the Great Mind Award in 2008 to celebrate his achievements. In June 2014, Bill became the first recipient of the Advertising Research Foundation’s Erwin Ephron Demystification Award.

Bill is a popular speaker, the subject of numerous articles, and a prolific writer. He writes two weekly blogs, BillHarveyBlog.com (“Pebbles in the Pond”, now in its fourth year), and MediaBizBloggers.com/Bill-Harvey (“In Terms of ROI”). He is interviewed weekly on the digital videoseries RBDR, and is a frequent guest on WDST-FM’s Woodstock Roundtable with Doug Grunther.

Bill lives with his wife Lalita and their three cats in the beautiful Hudson Valley. He has a daughter Nicole, and with Lalita has four grandchildren.