PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE – EQ ALL GROWN UP!

Welcome to EQSA – the homepage of Steph Vermeulen – who has been a leading pioneer in the field of EQ (emotional intelligence) for nearly two decades. Author of the original 1999 best-seller EQ: Emotional Intelligence for Everyone she has embraced the ground-breaking scientific advances that have matured EQ into the now all-encompassing field of Personal Intelligence (EQ + IQ).

Make things happen: Exponential growth is disrupting everything from the clumsy, old-fashioned systems that used to run the world, to our core beliefs. With much less fanfare but no less significance progressive leaps in technology have provided ground-breaking insights into human behaviour turning age-old beliefs about the human mind on their head (so to speak). In turn, this is transforming widely held psychological wisdom.

New discoveries about the mind demonstrate that thoughts and feelings work in tandem to produce intelligence and the term personal intelligence describes the combined workings of EQ and IQ. Although EQ was hailed as the master aptitude, personal intel speaks to being future fit because both IQ and EQ are necessary to fathom and navigate the uncharted waters of the exhilarating disruptive revolution we are living.

Some people welcome the breathtaking pace of change with enthusiasm while others view it with fear and trepidation. The differentiator is not genetic, generational or any other inborn disposition, it is how we’ve been soft-wired by customary memes (units of social conditioning) to approach life.

Unregulated emotions interfere with the brain’s ability to think, so the primary reason for developing a healthy level of personal intel is to ensure sound judgement instead of settling for knee-jerk reactions that have no purpose other than to cover for powerful feelings like anger, fear and insecurity.

There’s no need to be at the mercy of impulsive feelings. Now you can use your thinking mind to make sense of this valuable emotional feedback to live authentically and get more of what you want, more often (without ever having to step on anyone else’s toes).

Learn to be so damn good no one can ignore you!

View Stephanie’s Books

Personal Intelligence

Personal Intelligence:
FUTURE FIT NOW (2015)

Steph’s new book – Personal Intelligence – Now available in book stores and on Amazon (Kindle) .

EQ

EQ: Emotional Intelligence for Everyone (1999)

Stephanie Vermeulen’s book EQ: Emotional Intelligence for Everyone uniquely contains a comprehensive emotional dictionary. Use it to understand and work with the intelligence of your feelings.

Kill The Princess

KILL THE PRINCESS: WHY WOMEN STILL AREN’T FREE FROM THE QUEST FOR A FAIRYTALE LIFE (USA 2007)

Steph tackles a range of issues facing women today, from body image to popular notions of femininity, from women’s business personas to the politics of family.

Stitched Up

Stitched Up:
WHO FASHIONS WOMEN’S LIVES (SA 2004)

Best known for debunking myths about EQ, Steph does it again in Stitched-Up, in which she demystifies the complex issues facing women in modern life.

Challenging masculinity: A new perspective
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Returning to your authentic self
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JP Landman: Corruption and Consequences
Corruption & Consequences – an uplifting analysis by JP Landman, South Africa’s most astute political and trend analyst. Writer: JP Landman Political & Trend Analyst 20 October 2022 Once a year, usually in August, I [...]
Detoxifying Leadership
The revival of conservatism has placed the idea of the ‘strong-man leader’ under a spotlight and the shortcomings are as glaringly obvious as a large red wine stain on a pristine white tablecloth. Bullyboys like [...]
Why We Have a Brain
THE REAL REASON WE HAVE BRAINS When pondering why we have brains many of us are tempted to conjure up all sorts of lofty reasons that grandstand our superior understanding of life and the universe. [...]
How to be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
Authored by a Comedian, a Neuroscientist and a Monk (Ruby Wax, Dr Ashish Ranpura and Gelong Thubten respectively) This delightful interview with three of the most unlikely collaborators will make you laugh your way into having a refreshingly new perspective on yourself:
20 Metatrends for the 2020s by the brilliant futurist Peter Diamandis
TECHBLOG by Peter Diamandis edited for brevity. The full blog can be accessed here: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/20-metatrends-2020s In the decade ahead, waves of exponential technological advancements are stacking atop one another, eclipsing decades of breakthroughs in scale [...]
LOCKDOWN – 7 emotional stages you will go through
As we go into the second week of lockdown in South Africa, a clinical counsellor breaks down the stages we may be going through with practical tips on how to cope. Adapted from an [...]
AFRICAN YOUTH SURVEY SHOWS RISING AFRO-OPTIMISM
The African Youth Survey provides a refreshingly bright understanding of a new generation of young connected Afro-optimists who are doing incredibly innovative things with nothing. The survey - the largest of its kind - shows [...]
Progress – 10 Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
The Good Old Days are Now! Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg Writer: Steph Vermeulen – brain-based EQ facilitator and author of Personal Intelligence: Future Fit Now (EQ + [...]

Catch up with the latest writing from Steph’s Blog

Steph is known as a meme-buster who wrestles with the status quo to mentally prepare individuals to embrace change rather than resist it. Her exciting brand of personal intel goes way beyond the theoretical and whether you read one of her books, attend her seminars or hear her speak at a conference you will notice that she offers practical tools to help people think straight.