Bruce Cryer
Bruce Cryer has spent the past twenty five years researching and teaching innovative approaches to maximizing health and organizational performance. He was named President and CEO of HeartMath LLC in 2000, having helped launch the non-profit Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre in 1991.
For eight years prior, he served as Vice President for a biotech company. Bruce is 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.
He has successfully guided HeartMath programs at organizations such as Duke University Health System, Stanford Medical Center, UCSF’ s Center for the Health Professions, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Motorola, BP, Hewlett-Packard, Unilever, and more than 15 hospital systems across the US.
In 2005, HeartMath was honored with the ACHE “Management Innovations” award for its work with Delnor-Community Hospital in St. Charles, Illinois, and was a finalist for ABL’s Innovations in Healthcare Award.
Mr. Cryer is co-author of From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance. Bruce is also lead author of the Harvard Business Review article (July 2003), entitled "Pull the Plug on Stress," and co-author of "An Inner Quality Approach to Reducing Stress and Improving Physical and Emotional Wellbeing at Work," published in the journal Stress Medicine (1997).
He has also been interviewed in or written for such publications as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Modern Healthcare, Management Review, Business 2.0, Christian Science Monitor, Executive Excellence, and Leadership Excellence.
Since 1997 Mr. Cryer has been an adjunct professor at Stanford Business School’s Executive Program. He is on the Board of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (part of NIH), a member of the Adaptive Business Leaders Health Care Roundtable, has been a featured speaker across the US in the Lessons in Leadership Distinguished Speakers Series, and is on the faculty of both the Global Institute for Leadership Development and UCSF’s Center for the Health Professions.
He has 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.
