For more than three decades Dr. Morton Shaevitz has been helping individuals and organizations to grow and change through his work as a clinician, author, consultant, and speaker. Much of his early career focused on gender issues at home and in the workplace. He and his wife Marjorie wrote "Making It Together As A Two Career Couple", the first U.S. book published in this area.
As a member of the Internal Medicine division at Scripps Clinic, he developed a number of behavioral health programs and his interest turned toward medical and geriatric psychology. He is currently the chair of the section of Geriatric Psychology for the California Psychological Association.
He has served as a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.
In Feburary 2015, Dr. Shaevitz is releasing his first book with Kenneth Blanchard, "Refire! Don't Retire" from Berrett-Koehler Publishers.