Kevin Hogan claims he has a "PhD in metaphysics" from American Institute of Holistic Theology www.aiht.edu

This is an unaccredited fluff diploma mill.
And whatever he says he got, its in "metaphysics" which sounds like the same type of bogus degree that Joe Vitale bought.

Kevin Hogan also makes some hypnosis claims about attending the...American Institute of Hypnotherapy (Irvine, Calif), which does not seem to exist anymore.

But all of that would have to be proven by Kevin Hogan, he could have just made that up.
Kevin Hogan is simply an aggressive and extremely deceptive salesman.
His primary technique is to try to reframe his tactics as being "ethical persuasion", he has been trying to use those concepts for many years. The objective is to try and build rapport to make the persuasion more effective.

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The Anticult
Kevin Hogan claims he has a "PhD in metaphysics" from American Institute of Holistic Theology www.aiht.edu

This is an unaccredited fluff diploma mill.

I read somewhere that Hogan was a "doctor of psychology" -- a Psy.D. But it didn't say from where.

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The Anticult
Kevin Hogan claims he has a "PhD in metaphysics" from American Institute of Holistic Theology www.aiht.edu

This is an unaccredited fluff diploma mill.
And whatever he says he got, its in "metaphysics" which sounds like the same type of bogus degree that Joe Vitale bought.

Kevin Hogan also makes some hypnosis claims about attending the...American Institute of Hypnotherapy (Irvine, Calif), which does not seem to exist anymore.

Anticult, it appears that you are correct, as usual.

Here is a bio for Kevin Hogan in the Barnes & Noble online listing of his 1999 book, "The Psychology of Persuasion":

"Kevin Hogan is a national public speaker and founder of Success Dynamics Foundation, a nonprofit organization that strives to teach schoolchildren about making correct choices about drug use. An expert on body language, he is sought after by the media and even has interepreted President Clinton's demeanor during a televised speech for the New York Post. He holds a doctorate of clinical hypnotherapy from American Institute of Hypnotherapy (Irvine, California) and a Ph.D. in metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology (Youngstown, Ohio). Dr. Hogan has a clinical hypnotherapy practice and sees clients daily. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota."

[[url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Psychology-of-Persuasion/Kevin-Hogan/e/9781565544314/]barnesandnoble.com[/url]]

The "American Institute of Hypnotherapy" and the "American Institute of Holistic Theology" are hardly respectable sources for doctorates.

As a comparison, here is the education of a widely respected "Influence" expert, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini:

"Dr. Cialdini received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina and post doctoral training from Columbia University. He has held Visiting Scholar Appointments at Ohio State University, the University of California, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University. Currently, Dr Cialdini is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University."

[[url=http://www.influenceatwork.com/INFLUENCEATWORK-CialdiniBio.html]www.influenceatwork.com[/url]]

On his site in his bibliography he bills himself as 'Psy D' but does not mention from where he gained that.

Kevin Hogan bio

Gee, I wonder why he's not mentioning where it came from? ;-P

Very strange indeed that there is info available on where the dodgy credentials were purchased but none on where the worthy credentials were earned.

This is how Kevin Hogan advertises himself on his website.

www.kevinhogan.com/biography.htm
Kevin Hogan, Psy.D.


Kevin Hogan does not have a real Psy.D (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology).
Here's another guy making it up, to try to gain more Authority.

He has to prove all the claims he makes, with specific places, dates, and names. And then those have to be checked and verified.

You notice how deceptive even his bio is, just a random listing of media appearances, most of which can be bought by hiring a good PR agent to set it up and place the article.

He then says he's trained employees of various big companies. He doesn't say he was hired or appeared at those companies, as he could get into serious trouble for saying that if its false.
What he is claiming is that at some of his seminars there have been people who worked at those companies, like Microsoft. Its impossible to prove, and its meaningless. But it makes the casual reader think he's been hired by those actual companies, when he has not. More deception.

Kevin Hogan is actually far worse than the others mentioned in this thread so far. One of his main techniques is to try and preframe everything he does as "ethical" to try and make people trust his suggestions to their unconscious mind.
But its just about trying to sell anything in the room that is not nailed down. $ell $ell $ell, that's it.

Those Kevin Hogan seminars sound extremely bad, people are going to get cleaned out, worse than the Russ Whitney and Robert Kiyosaki scams, where people get scammed for $50,000.
The Florida Attorney General went after Whitney, and they paid back 1 million.
Russ Whitney - Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad scams [forum.culteducation.com]



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What else is interesting about Kevin Hogan, is that he runs his Boot Camp LGAT seminar out of Las Vegas, the center of "ethics" in the USA.
Kevin Hogan's Influence: Boot Camp 2010 - Las Vegas March 10-13 2010.

Notice above, a main book Kevin Hogan is promoting is called,

[forum.culteducation.com] The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts

That book he is promoting, its real main agenda is to try and legalize online gambling.
Kevin Hogan tries to conceal his main agenda, by framing himself as a self-help author, but in reality he really isn't. He has his "metaphysics" which is the God-religion area in which he actually appears to be quite extreme even though that is concealed, combined with the desire to legalize online gambling.
On top of that, they use a warped version of being a "libertarian" to allow a complete free-for-all in terms of maximum covert influence and persuasion of people for profit. James Arthur Ray would approve.

So walking into the Kevin Hogan Influence: Boot Camp LGAT seminar in Las Vegas, with the extreme level of advanced covert persuaders all working on people at once, people are gambling with their entire financial lives walking into that seminar. A vulnerable person, who is not trained or experienced in advanced covert persuasion and sales, could literally get cleaned out.

The self-rationalizing beliefs of these advanced covert persuaders, where they see themselves as a type of faux libertarian that is going to save America, allows them to use all of these most powerful influence techniques on vulnerable people, and clean them out financially, and sleep very well at night. No they are not ashamed, they are proud of what they do when they talk with eachother. After all, they have a self-professed Good Intent to save America, and Greed is Good, selfishness is good. Kevin Hogan has said in print that selfishness is good.
From their point of view, NOT financially cleaning out people who are persuadable is unethical. Its their sacred and holy duty to clean you out, even if just to teach you a lesson in being persuaded/scammed so hard, you will never forget for the rest of your life.



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Lakhani has "Tweet"-ed a promo "teleseminar" for the Influence: Boot Camp coming up in March in Las Vegas.

Rare Persuasion and Influence Teleseminar On Monday
with Dave Lakhani and Kevin Hogan [aweber.com]
about 9 hours ago from API
________________________________________________________

"Dave and I will give you a sneak preview into
Influence: Boot Camp, Las Vegas, March 10-13"

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"If you can brand yourself effectively, you can have
almost anything you want in any aspect of life and business.
If you don't, you are seen as one of the random humans
that walk the earth."

So.... that is a typical grand claim folks like this pitch at some point: "you can have almost anything you want".

In Lakhani's "Persuasion" book, he states the claim more absolutely, in his preface:

"This is a book about persuasion and the art of using persuasion to get exactly what you want."

Er, "get exactly what you want?"

The Rolling Stones display far more wisdom in their song: "You CAN'T always get what you want."
Sorry, but that is the human condition. Though if you're lucky, "you get what you need".

One more eerie statement from the Boot Camp teaser:

"You could live on Facebook and never make a penny...
or you can follow Dave's strategy for you."

That is one devious suggestion.
Um, no thank you. I don't want to follow this dude's "strategy" for me.

Btw, I do NOT recommend joining that teleconference, as you'll be dealing with guys who "persuade" for a living.
Do you really want to risk getting "persuaded" into spending as much as $3997 for 4 days with these guys?

That is nearly FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS.

I can think of so, so many better ways to spend my dough.



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Another example of the fraud of Good Intent in covert persuasion being sold by Kevin Hogan and Dave Lakhani. They say covert persuasion is great as long as you tell yourself you have Good Intent.
But self-professed good intent is a fraud.

Relevant as they are also from Idaho.
An alleged Baptist group from Idaho, was caught illegally taking "orphans" from Haiti. Surely, they have self-professed "good intent" [www.telegraph.co.uk]
But too bad that many of the kids are not orphans, and what they are doing is illegal, and the kids could be sold into child trafficking.

The road to hell is paved with so-called Good Intentions.

[content.usatoday.com] Rescue run for Haiti earthquake 'orphans' raises evangelism concerns
"children...being airlifted into evangelical institutions or families -- losing their faith along with their families."



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