Negotiate with yourself and win!

Personal and strategic coaching.

Why try me?

A deep, wide research background applied to your practical immediate situation.

Doubt Management

Feeling stuck, disoriented, ambivalent? Jeremy has a PhD in decision theory and can help you put your doubts in perspective.

Dealing with Jerks

Blocked by a bully? Jeremy is a leading researcher is psychoproctology, the diagnoses, treatment and prevention of buttheadedness.

Strategic Language

Having trouble getting through to someone? Jeremy has written over 1k articles (11m views) on how to express yourself.

Calm Confidence

Easily shaken by criticism? Jeremy's natural history perspective can get you to shift your attention from what's wrong with you to what's up with all of us.

Jeremy Sherman, PhD

I’m an informal, ironic guy who lucked into decades of rigorous research on what we humans really are – from the chemical origins of life to everyday life. 

I’ve collaborated closely with Harvard/Berkeley bio-anthropologist Terrence Deacon for three decades while coaching, and writing for Psychology Today and other outlets.

If you're serious about progress

I won't let our work become a unproductive therapeutic ritual. It'll yield practical traction on whatever's bugging you so you can navigate your internal and external curves to get where you want to go.