Marc Applebaum

Marc Applebaum is an Adjunct Professor at Saybrook University, specializing in phenomenology and hermeneutics with a focus on Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Paul Ricoeur. He serves as a dissertation Chair or Methodologist for Existential Phenomenological studies and reviews book proposals for academic presses. His work bridges philosophy with practical applications in organizational psychology, leadership assessment, and agile team consulting in Silicon Valley.

Expertise includes business/IO psychology, consciousness & spirituality, transpersonal psychology, and intercultural dynamics. With 9+ years in community mental health and 20+ years in organizational psychology, he combines clinical experience with executive coaching for tech and nonprofit sectors.

He holds editorial board roles in qualitative research journals and focuses on the phenomenology of religious experience and psychological leadership studies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his research emphasizes practical applications of phenomenological methods in both academic and corporate contexts.