Alan R. Ehrlich has lectured and conducted workshops on various aspects of effective listening at colleges and corporations across the country. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as entrepreneurial start-ups to help them maximize their marketing and management opportunities through effective listening.
For the past twenty years, Mr. Ehrlich has focused on the issues of dysfunctional listening and its effects on learning, communication, and socialization – on both sides of life’s time line – early childhood and the aging population.
Mr. Ehrlich is a past president of both the International Listening Association (www.listen.org) and the Global Listening Centre (www.globallisteningcenter.org) and has served as chair of the Listening Disorders Division of the GLC for the past 7 years. He has presented at a number of ILA International and Regional Conferences along with participating in the GLC’s Listening Festival.
He is dedicated to promoting an understanding of dysfunctional listening through educational programs and counseling programs to aid people with listening disorders understand their disorder and work around it. Additionally, Mr. Ehrlich helps communications instructors to understand that not everyone can listen – there are people who, as much as they want, have difficulty in accurate and effective understanding do to any one of a variety of listening disorders.
Mr. Ehrlich is the author of “Why Some People Won’t Can’t Listen”, a chapter in the textbook Listening Across Lives (KendallHunt – 2nd Edition – 2024).