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Jack Bauer on Where is my Quiet Ego?

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July 16, 2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm

Thanks to IOC Professional Fellow, Celia Sikorski, for introducing IOC to psychology professor Jack Bauer and his epic book titled “The Transformative Self.” Jack lays out the intellectual case for four independent domains of well-being, starting with happiness (positive affect, life satisfaction), love (meaning and purpose in relationships and work fulfillment of values), wisdom, and growth. In this book and his next one he builds out the concept of a quiet ego. In our Linkedin Live Jack and IOC co-founder Margaret Moore will explore his investigation of the quiet ego, an aspirational state for all coaches and leaders. Who doesn’t want a quieter ego?

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Meet Our Speaker

Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and past Raymond A. Roesch, S.M., Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences at the University of Dayton. His courses and research focus on the development of self-identity and personality with an emphasis on life stories, meaning making, growth motivation, and humane flourishing.

His recent book, The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life (2021, Oxford University Press), explains how people create a meaningful self-identity in their life stories that helps cultivate personal growth in the directions of happiness, love and wisdom for the self and others. He is co-editor of the book Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego (2008, American Psychological Association), which examines the problems of egotism and the ways and benefits of transcending it. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.