In community and corporate settings, he sets new standards in using the power of story for effective needs assessment, strategic planning, conflict resolution, and market/mission/team building. He is a repeated star speaker of Screenwriting Expo, and is currently working on multiple film, documentary, and television projects, while also returning to the long delayed book version of his seminars. 

As an educator, clinician, writer, and applied cultural anthropologist of many years and in many settings, Dr. Horton has been intensely interested in what gives purpose and meaning in people’s lives. In what moves and facilitates people, organizations, and entire cultures to grow and change. In what allows people and entire groups to envision and achieve their optimum potential. In what allows anyone to visualize then realize their dream.  

As an administrator, trainer, clinician, and consultant, he has impacted the real lives of countless individuals, families, and groups in ways others predicted would be impossible and has developed and/or transformed programs to precedent setting standards that often brought together entire systems of contentious players. One of his current key areas of interest is in the effective enhancement and merging of media and social change.

Along with developing the then landmark Alcohol/Drug Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Horton effectively worked with, trained, or supervised myriad professionals, from health care and academia to business and government - with additional overlapping experience in judicial-correctional systems. He is an effective guide for dealing with the real world in many diverse arenas and settings, and equally effective in drawing from the real world with authenticity and power for great resonant storytelling and presentations that capture and make sense of the stuff of life.