Kevin Karlson JD PhD

Kevin Karlson JD PhD is a leading expert on all aspects of divorce: prevention, litigation, and recovery

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Kevin Karlson JD PhD is the author of "When ALL Else Fails: Minimizing the Damage Before, During, and After Divorce". Dr Karlson has been providing unique insights about divorce to his clients and their lawyers since 1983. He has served as a litigation consultant specializing in divorce and child custdoy cases, as a director of divorc e recovery programs, a divorce recovery coach, and now teaches classes on divorce, co-parenting, and divorce prevention at Gateway Church. He writes a highly successful blog PositiveDivorce4U.blogspot.com to provide new insights on topics relevant to divorce and child custody. Dr. Karlson has had a varied and highly successful career as a teacher and seminar speaker. His adjunct faculty appointments have included UT Southwestern Medical School (forensic psychology), Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (Psychiatric and psychological evidence), UT Dallas Graduate School of Business Cohort MBA program (business communications), and SMU Cox School of Business, Business Leadership Center (managing diffcult people) where he received two Teaching Excellence Awards. He is the executive producer of "Divorce Through the Eyes of a Child", a pilot TV project currently in development, which uses interviews with children, and their drawings of their familes, along with interviews with their parents to tell their stories.

Divorce Consultant and Coach at Kevin Karlson JD PhD

January 1983 - Present | Dallas, Texas

Providing coaching to people before, during, and after divorce; program development and delivery for divorce and co-parenting; consulting to churches and non-profits on program development, strategy, and implementation of mentoring and leadership development programs

President at The Reading Company

August 2001 - April 2003 | Dallas, Texas

Startup and development of learning to read media for pre-school children. Designed and developed a multimedia product for learning to read; recruited leadership team; pitched to VCs in Dallas and institutional brokers on Wall Street; produced demo product DVD.

Senior Consultant at Texas Instruments

1994 - 1997

Leadership and professional development for TI's inhouse legal department; co-develop and deliver a company wide strategy and leadership development workshop in 10 locations world wide to the top 250 leaders in the company; strategic business development in the digital imaging business; coaching and development of executives.

President at Trial Psychology Institute

1984 - 1994

Pioneer divorce litigation consulting including witness training, mock trials and focus groups for divorce trial research and preparation, design exhibits, teach communication and persuasion strategies to trial attorneys.

Strategic Partner at Cephos Corporation

July 2010

Forensic applications of leading edge fMRI research andproven technology to lie detection in criminal defense of fraud and child abuse allegations in child custody cases, as well as psychopathy determinations in sentencing, and all types of jury research.

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

1981 – 1984

JD

Concentration: family law; litigation

Activities: ABA student representative; Pi Alpha Delta; Law School Follies musical performer

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

1977 – 1983

PhD

Concentration: psychology

Texas Christian University

1974 – 1977

M.A.

Concentration: psychology

South Dakota State University

1970 – 1974

Bachelor's

Concentration: psychology

Golf, sailing, soaring, reading, musical production, innovation, creativity, Gateway Church, neuroscience, fMRI applications to family law.