Allen Weiner is the Managing Director of Communication Development Associates, Inc. in Woodland Hills, California. He was one of the firm’s founders. CDA celebrated its 35th anniversary in March 2010.
Allen has since served as an advisor to senior management on a variety of issues related to human communications.
His external responsibilities include on site delivery of seminars and individualized coaching.
Allen completed the Bachelor and Masters degrees in Speech Communications at West Virginia University. He received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies in 1976 from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California
His research interests were and remain persuasion, personal influence and interpersonal credibility. Allen spends his free time in rare books stores, taking bass guitar lessons and traveling with his family. His first book So Smart, But… (Jossey-Bass) was released in October, 2006. His second book, I’m What??? is scheduled for release in January 2011.
Allen is married to Carol Weiner and has a son, Matt, who is a Congressional Aid in Congress in Washington, DC.