Biography

Meet Dottie Billington . . .
Dottie Billington, Ph.D., has a passion for enabling people of all ages to grow, achieve, and thrive––to become the best that they can be. Through her speaking, training, teaching, writing––and now through her internationally-published, Award-Winning book, Life is an Attitude, Dottie guides business people, seniors, busy moms and dads, college students, and people in transition with her message of “how to grow forever better.”
When in her mid-forties, while working with business clients, she wondered why some seemed to be forever growing, learning, effective; yet others, equally intelligent and good people, appeared to be stuck. Driven to learn more, she returned to graduate school at age 50, earning a Ph.D. in the new field of adult development. Until recent decades scientists had thought only children grow and develop, reaching full maturity at about 20, nevermore to change until middle age, when our “inevitable” downhill slide begins. We now know that we not only can––but are meant to continue learning and growing as long as we live.
Dottie's doctoral dissertation, which examined why some adults continue to grow all their lives while others do not, was twice nominated by leaders in the field for the award for that year's outstanding dissertation. Her articles on this topic have been widely published here and abroad, stimulating widespread ongoing interest.
Her new book, Life is an Attitude: How to Grow Forever Better, draws from this research and from her many years as a personal growth and transition trainer. Her engaging, animated, inspirational style of sharing her message with her audiences comes through in the spoken word during presentations and interviews and with the written word on the page.
The mother of two grown sons, Dottie lives in the Seattle area with her husband, Bill.

Dottie Billington is Available as Speaker to Your Group or Radio and TV Interviews