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 fulfillment for themselves and their organizations. His clients create more of the life they want while creating the financial results their stakeholders deserve. His extensive background includes being a successful senior executive, entrepreneur, coach, professor, team builder, author, publisher and leadership coach.
His current clients include Deloitte & Touche, eBay, Rockwell Collins, Panda Restaurant Group, East/West Bank, Experian, Velocity Sports, Snyder/Langston, Pacific Sunwear, Outrigger Hotels, Canon, Danaher, Toyota, Freedom Communications, Boeing, Autobytel, Smith Sport, Broadcom, Washington Mutual, A.D.P., S.B.C., Silverado Senior Living, Wells Fargo, Edwards LifeSciences, McDermott and Bull Executive Search and Countrywide Mortgage. He is a sought after resource for WPO and YPO chapters and regularly holds weekend retreats for CEO’s 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. He has also been on a wide variety of profit, nonprofit and advisory boards. Current affiliations include: Founder of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, President and Mentor for Orange County’s Stanford Business School Alumni Association, Founder and President of the Young Leader’s Organization, a professor in leadership and entrepreneurism with Pepperdine University for M.B.A. and Doctoral candidates and a board member of Silverado Senior Living, Inc. He has been in ‘Who’s Who in America’ for over thirty years and was a regular contributor to the Franklin Covey magazine Priorities.
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 BS degree from The Citadel, a Master’s in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University, is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program, and has his Ph.D. from Walden University in Organizational Psychology. His doctoral research was on personality characteristics associated with high achieving executives who became successful entrepreneurs, 92% of whom reported they are not happy. His work the last two decades has emphasized coaching leaders to be part of the eight percent of high achievers who are happy.
Married to Dr. Carol Ann Caesar, a psychologist, for 41 years, they have one son Eric who is an executive recruiter. Vance and Carol Ann published Uncommon Career Success and The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness. He is a frequent speaker to national and local audiences.