Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT, and then did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and also teaches in the Leading Edge course at Oxford Brookes University and in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program at Oxford University's Templeton College.

Together with her husband Ian Marshall, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she is the author of the bestsellers The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society, and more recently of SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence, first published in 2000.