About Us

Ryan Rominger, PhD

Ryan received his Ph.D. in 2004 and is currently a full-time Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Ryan also holds the position of Associate Dissertation Director for the 3 Ph.D. programs at the school, and has been functioning as the faculty trainer for the Angel Learning Management System. Research and professional interests include integration of exceptional experiences, transpersonal approaches to diversity, creative expression / creativity, group projective dream work, and methods of spiritual guidance (spiritual direction).

A. Scott McCulloch, MBA, PhD

Scott is an expert in the use of the Projective Differential™, a unique assessment tool that uncovers attitudes towards and perceptions of assessed topics—within and between groups—that are ‘below the surface’ of conscious awareness, yet exert a powerful influence on the functioning of an organization.

Scott received his BA in Philosophy from The University of Toronto in 1989. After five years in bank management, he returned to school and completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business (formerly the Western Business School at the University of Western Ontario) in 1996. During his time in biz school, Scott became interested in the nature of consciousness, spirituality, and the further reaches of human development. Discovering the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Scott decided to continue his formal education, with the intention of exploring how Transpersonal Psychology could contribute to research, business and his own personal development. Scott received his Masters in Transpersonal Psychology in 1999, and his Ph.D. in 2006, completing research on the topic of Spirituality and Business.

Shani Robins, PhD

Shani is a licensed psychologist (PSY 18795) and author of numerous scientific journal and conference research articles and textbook chapters in the area of clinical outcome research, emotional intelligence, organizational consulting, cognition-emotion interactions, and how these dimensions change with wisdom acquisitions across the lifespan.

Shani received his B.A. in Psychology from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 1989 where he completed an research honors thesis that won the Santa Clara National Competition for Undergraduate Research. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Cognitive Psychology, in 1996. He then completed a two-year Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. In 1999 he pursued a second Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, completed 3000 hours of supervised clinical work, and was licensed in California in 2002.

He is currently an instructor at Stanford University Medical School’s Health Improvement Program, a Professor at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (www.itp.edu), and president of the Wisdom Therapy™ Institute (www.wisdomtherapy.com). He teaches graduate research methods, statistics, and clinical psychology. In his spare time he plays raquetball, rollerblades, runs marathons, and Salsa dances.