Alan Seale

Alan Seale (b. 1954) is an American author, speaker, and coach, and the founder and director of the Center for Transformational Presence, whose leadership and coach-training programs have graduates in more than thirty-five countries.

He came to this work by an unusual route: an earlier career as a professional singer and voice teacher in New York City (he holds a Master of Music in Voice from Westminster Choir College and performed with organizations including the New York Philharmonic and New York City Opera) before training as a coach through the Coaches Training Institute and other programs and being ordained through The New Seminary.

His first book, Intuitive Living: A Sacred Path (2001), won the Coalition of Visionary Resources award for best book in spirituality, and was followed by Soul Mission • Life Vision (2003), The Manifestation Wheel (2008), The Power of Your Presence (2009), Create a World That Works (2011), and the two-volume Transformational Presence (2017).

Seale’s place in the Atlas is as a contemporary teacher who carries the New Thought / intuitive-manifestation lineage into the language of leadership, coaching, and complexity. His distinctive move is to invert ordinary goal-setting: instead of imposing “what I want,” he teaches sensing “what wants to happen” — the larger potential trying to emerge in a situation — and then asking who that asks one to be and what it asks one to do.

This pairs a receptive, listening, present-centered stance with a felt/energetic reading of situations, restating in practical, secular-friendly terms the recurring themes of attention (The Inner Creates the Outer), the present moment (Everything Happens in the Now), surrender-to-receive (The Inner Creates the Outer), and feeling as the operative force (The Inner Creates the Outer).

He represents the pragmatic, professionally-coached pole of the manifestation field — closer to discernment and emergence than to outcome-engineering.