Vance Caesar, Ph.D.
Leadership Coach and Mentor
“If it is to be, it’s up to me…. and you.”
As a Premier Leadership Coach and Mentor, Vance focuses on helping leaders create success for themselves and their organizations. His clients create more of the life they want while also creating the financial results their stakeholders deserve. His extensive background includes being a successful senior executive, entrepreneur, board member, professor, team builder, author, publisher and leadership coach.
His clients include eBay, Rockwell Collins, Panda Restaurant Group, East/West Bank, Experian, Outrigger Hotels, Danaher, Toyota, Boeing, Smith Sport, PersonalCare Physicians, PIMCO, Allianz Global Investors of America, National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry, Daughters of Charity Health System, Private Access, Hyland’s Inc., SRS Labs, Inc., CA Technologies, Hoag Hospital, Automatic Data Processing, Silverado Senior Living, Sybron Dental Specialties, Edwards LifeSciences, McDermott and Bull Executive Search, Transamerica Insurance & Investment Group and SC Fuels. He is a sought after resource for WPO and YPO chapters and regularly holds weekend retreats for CEO’s and other senior leaders at his mountain retreat center in Southern California.
Vance has been on a wide variety of profit, nonprofit and advisory boards. His affiliations began as Florida’s top Charter President of the US Jaycees in 1969. Current affiliations include: Founder of the Professional Coaches, Mentors and Advisors, President and Mentor for Orange County’s Stanford Business School Alumni Association, Founder and President of the Young Leader’s Organization and a board member of Silverado Senior Living, Inc. Vance is a professor in leadership and entrepreneurism with Pepperdine University for M.B.A. and Doctoral candidates. He has been in “Who’s Who in America” for over thirty years and was a regular contributor to the Franklin Covey magazine Priorities. He was also selected to the Orange County Grand Jury.
Vance has been the operating head of publicly owned daily newspapers, owned his own media group, led groups of executives in myriad developmental situations and been an individual and organizational consultant. His interest is in life-long learning and stimulating the entrepreneurial spirit in each person with whom he works, while helping each be a “Happy High Achiever”.
Vance holds a B.S. degree from The Citadel, where he attended on a full football scholarship. His Master’s in Business Administration is from Florida Atlantic University, and he is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program. His Ph.D. from Walden University is in Organizational Psychology. His doctoral research was on personality characteristics associated with high achieving executives who became successful entrepreneurs. His work the last two and a half decades has emphasized coaching leaders to be part of the eight percent of high achievers and successful/business executives, who are also happy.
Married for 44 years to Dr. Carol Ann Caesar, a psychologist, they have one son Eric. Vance and Carol Ann published Uncommon Career Success and The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness. He is a frequent speaker to local, national and international audiences.