Bruce Cryer has spent more than thirty years training and coaching innovative approaches to maximizing health and human performance. He was named President and CEO of HeartMath in 2000, having helped launch the non-profit Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre in 1991.

Bruce was the key architect of programs that incorporate HeartMath’s innovative biomedical research into practical tools and strategies to enhance health, performance, creativity, innovation, and productivity for both the individual and the organization.

Bruce was lead author of the acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, entitled “Pull the Plug on Stress” (July 2003) which was republished by HBR in 2015.

He has worked with leadership teams at organizations such as The World Bank, Stanford Business School, NASA, Mayo Clinic, Shell, Unilever, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Duke University Health System, and dozens of other corporations, health systems and government agencies across the US.

Mr. Cryer is co-author of one of the first management books to draw a research link between stress/resilience/leadership performing in his seminal book From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance.

Since 1997 Mr. Cryer has been adjunct faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business as well as Stanford’s School of Medicine. He has been a featured speaker across the US in the Lessons in Leadership Distinguished Speakers Series, and has been on the faculty of the Global Institute for Leadership Development. He has also lectured at the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM), the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, the Stanford Sloan Program, the Stanford Executive Briefings series, Columbia Senior Executive Program, University of California Berkeley Haas Business School, the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, the Nanyang Polytechnic University School of Business Management in Singapore, and the International Center for Leadership in Finance, based in Kuala Lumpur.

A two year health crisis became a healing journey which convinced him to focus his energies and passions on personal healing, leadership development, and the creativity/innovation link. He writes for Innovation Excellence as well as other blogs.

Bruce’s professional career began as a singer, dancer, and actor on Broadway, including 800 performances in New York playing The Boy in The Fantasticks, the world’s longest running musical. He currently works and performs with a number of performing arts organizations in New York City.

Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of Research. Dr. Rollin McCraty has been with IHM since its inception in 1991. He worked with founder Doc Childre to formulate the organization’s research goals and create its Scientific Advisory Board. McCraty is a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress, holds memberships with the International Neurocardiology Network, American Autonomic Society, Pavlovian Society and Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and is an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. He and his research team regularly participate in collaborative studies with other U.S. and international scientific, medical and educational institutions. McCraty is an internationally recognized authority on heart-rate variability, heart-rhythm coherence and the effects of positive and negative emotions on human psychophysiology. He is widely published in those and other research areas.