About Dr. Signe

Signe A. Dayhoff, Ph.D., M.A., M.Ed., is a social psychologist with post-graduate training in counseling, emotional intelligence, and positive psychology. She received her doctorate from Boston University where she studied ways to enhance personal organizational advancement through: (1) alleviating fears through removing limiting thoughts and beliefs, (2) elevating self-confidence and social skills, and (3) acting to overcome obstacles and meet challenges.

For over 35 years she has been a Social-Effectiveness Coach, consultant, speaker, and author, specializing in developing breakthrough social effectiveness in personal life and business to break through to reinvent oneself to achieve one’s goals, empowerment, satisfaction, and fulfilment.

Her motto:

Deep-Six Your Fear
Boost Your Confidence
Kiss Your Social Limitations Good-Bye
Break Through to Reinvent Yourself
Capture Your Dreams!

She has taught psychology, social psychology and organizational behavior at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, and Framingham State College. She also has done research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, and Fairview State Hospital.

Author of seventeen books, Including Decision Making For Managers, she has also contributed to David Riklan’s 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (Vol. 2) and Steven J. Bennett’s Executive Chess: Creative Problem Solving By 45 of America’s Top Business Leaders and Thinkers.

She has over 2,515 published newspaper, magazine, ezine, online, and blog articles and has been quoted in publications including Psychology Today, Boston Business Journal, Shape, Industry Week, Wall Street Journal, Success, Cosmopolitan, Executive Travel, and Time Out New York.

For over four years she hosted and produced “The Inside Track,” the Continental Cablevision alternative-career education interview program for which she received a Conti Award nomination.

Dr. Signe has provided presentations and seminars for organizations such as, (in alphabetical order) the

  • American Psychological Association
  • Association of Genetic Technologists
  • Association of Governmental Accountants
  • Boston University Center for Applied Sciences
  • Boston University Graduate Studies
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Employment
  • Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Eastern Psychological Association
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
  • Health Action New Mexico
  • HealthPlex Dental Insurance
  • Honeywell Bull
  • Lesley College
  • Maine Educational Consortium
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Midwest Psychological Association
  • Mountain States Regional Genetics Services Network
  • New Mexico Conferences of Churches
  • New Mexico Psychological Association
  • Physicians For Health Care Access
  • Rotary
  • Suffolk University Law School
  • University of New Mexico Continuing Education
  • University of New Mexico Health Sciences School
  • Wellesley College

A feline applied-behaviorist, she is a “kitty mom” to special-needs and elderly rescued cats. She has also written and published five cat memoirs, of which three are about the wild-and-woolly exploits of “Faust the Dancing Cat,” Gene Kelly in a cat suit.

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