About Me

Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D. is a motivational coach, consultant, speaker, therapist and author, as well as an award-winning faculty member and psychologist at Yale School of Medicine. At Yale, Dr. Pantalon teaches courses in clinical psychology and conducts research on the effectiveness of his adaptation of motivational interviewing (the basis of Instant Influence).

He and his colleagues have received over 22 million dollars in federal funding for their work over the past decade, and have published numerous articles on his research, in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Pantalon has taught his Instant Influence method to thousands of people from all walks of life: business executives, human resource managers, executive, lifestyle and career coaches, parents, teachers, sales representatives, probation officers, psychologists and other health care professionals, as well as individuals struggling with a range of health-risk, addictive and compulsive behaviors.  He has consulted with businesses and organizations such as General Electric, Bristol-Myers Squib, Schering-Plough, Crossroads at Antigua, Pavillon International, Hazelden, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among many others. Dr. Pantalon earned his B.A. in Psychology from Binghamton University; his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University; and his M.S. in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with his wife, Marianne, and their sons, Matthew and Nicholas.