Who is Dr. Quentin Schultze?

Our best communication flows from our hearts and serves others.

Greetings! I’m Dr. Quentin Schultze, Professor of Communication Emeritus at Calvin University. I write, speak, consult, and video-cast about communication, one of our greatest gifts. I learned early in my life not to take it for granted….

with Mike Rowe after a recording

I grew up in a kind of living hell. My father was an alcoholic. My mother was a paranoid schizophrenic. They divorced, so I lived with my mother, who could not drive or hold a job.  I avoided communication to reduce my pain. I hated school, but eventually became an educator and a public speaker.

I earned a PhD in communication from the University of Illinois (Urbana), and taught at Calvin and other universities for 40 years before leaving full-time instruction to dedicate more time to writing, mentoring, and especially speaking. I would love to speak to your group in person or online (I do even the latter very well.). Just click on this email link to send me a quick note for more information: qschultze@gmail.com

I write and speak in order to serve audiences. For me, such service is where the world’s deep hunger and my deep joy intersect.** I love to share wisdom about human communication, such as: “Speak only if you can improve upon the silence.” You'll Shoot Your Eye Out! BookImagine the impact of such wisdom if today’s leaders took it to heart.

Some of my books, linked below to Amazon, include:
  *  You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out! Life Lessons from the Movie ‘A Christmas Story’ (an Amazon best seller, based on my friendship and teaching with the screenwriter, Jean Shepherd)
  * Servant Teaching: Practices for Renewing Christian Higher Education
  *  Communicating with Grace and Virtue
  *  Communicate Like a True Leader: 30 Days of Life-Changing Wisdom
  *  Résumé 101: A Student and Recent-Grad Guide to Crafting Résumés and Cover Letters that Land Jobs
  *  An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication (with Diane Badzinski)
  *  An Essential Guide to Public Speaking (2nd ed.) Click here to view my short video presentations for each chapter of the book.

Please visit my LinkedIn page for far more professional information about me, and my Google Scholar page for a longer list of books and articles. My CV is over 100 pages long.

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I have been interviewed by major media and podcasters, such as The Wall Street Journal, Mike Rowe, WGN (TV and radio), The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Fortune, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the New York Post, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, and NPR. Please sign up for my email updates (about once every 3 months). No spam. Just me, serving you, including offers for free PDF articles and books.

Thanks for visiting.

— Quentin Schultze (aka “Dr. Q”)

** The sentence is my version of Frederick Buechner: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” I discuss it in a little book I wrote about calling, Here I Am.