James Gavin

James Gavin, PhD, has designed and delivered coach training programs to health, wellness, and fitness professionals since 1998. He is the director of the Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies and a full professor in the department of applied human sciences at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has consulted with health, wellness, and fitness centers for 30 years and has been a practitioner of counseling psychology for more than 40 years. Gavin was designated a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, the highest award for recognizing excellence in the practice of counseling psychology. He is certified by the International Coach Federation as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and by Integral Coaching Canada as an Integral Master Coach (IMC). He has written extensively about personality matching related to active living and has presented around the world at health fitness conferences since 1985. He is a longtime practitioner of aikido and iaido.