Dr. David S. Gruder, Ph.D., D.CEP, is the Executive Director of Willingness Works® in Del Mar, California, through which he lectures, trains and consults worldwide in Integrity Development (self-integrity, relationship integrity & leadership integrity). His doctorate is in clinical psychology with a secondary emphasis in organizational development and conflict resolution. For almost three decades, Dr. Gruder has provided organizational analyses, staff training, team development and executive mentoring, for executives, administrators, leaders, businesses and academic institutions. This has been in addition to having maintained a waiting-list private psychotherapy practice from 1980 until 2000. The Willingness Works® website, www.willingness.com, is a Starburst Best-of-the-Web Top 100 Self-Discovery Website.

Dr. Gruder has authored two print books, three e-books, over seventy CD sets and well over a dozen training manuals. His first print book, Sensible Self-Help, won two book awards, including Colliers 1997 Mental Health Book of the Year. His second print book, The New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, Your Relationships and Our World, a road map for addressing the worldwide crisis of lack of personal, relationship and leadership integrity, is set for release in January 2008. It will be accompanied by The New IQ Integrity Makeover Workbook.

Dr. Gruder has provided training programs for leaders, helping professionals and the general public throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, England, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore. His topics have been many and varied, but all focus on building the skills required for personal, relationship and leadership integrity. For specific details, consult Dr. Gruder’s full Vita (available upon request or via his website). Also see below for information on training programs specifically for helping professionals.

Within the business and leadership community, Dr. Gruder has provided training programs and consulting for a wide range of business, academic and coaching organizations, such as the Wellcoaches® Corporation, IDS/American Express®, Vistage® (now known as The Executive Committee/TEC), the San Diego County Department of Education Management Academy, University of California San Diego Medical School, San Diego State University, Hocking College (Ohio), and a number of family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs.

Within the international community, Dr. Gruder has provided negotiation skills training to ambassadors and other delegates to the World Trade Organization through a project co-sponsored by South Centre in Geneva, Switzerland and Action Aid in Pakistan. He has also written a paper entitled A Declaration of Global Responsibility, outlining ten principles for dealing with fanaticism and terrorism.

Within the psychological community, Dr. Gruder is dually licensed as a psychologist and as a marriage & family therapist, and is a California-approved Continuing Education provider for psychologists, marriage & family therapists, social workers, nurses and drug & alcohol counselors. He has given hundreds of lectures and workshops, from hospital Grand Rounds presentations to multiple-day workshops at international conferences to case consultations for psychotherapists to teaching classes for psychology graduate students.

Within the specialty field of Energy Psychology, Dr. Gruder was the Founding President of the international Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), through which he is currently a primary architect of ACEP’s diplomate program in Comprehensive Energy Psychology and its Energy Health Practitioner certification program. In addition to his Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (D.CEP), he is an ACEP-Approved Certification Full Trainer, Continuing Education Provider and Certification Consultant, as well as an Advisory Board member to the InnerSource Energy Psychology Interactive project.

Within academia, Dr. Gruder teaches graduate courses in both Human Development and Energy Psychology at the California Institute for Human Science in Encinitas, California.

Dr. Gruder is also active in the ManKind Project, an international non-profit organization helping men deal with the blocks interfering with their integrity and leadership so that they can fully embody their personal, relationship, professional and service missions. He is a past Board member for the San Diego community of ManKind Project International and has staffed a number of their programs.

In refreshing contrast to his multi-dimensional professional life, David lives a simple, play-filled life in San Diego, California, with his wife Laurie (a licensed acupuncturist), their cat Sasha and a delightful community of friends and family. A former accomplished musician, he still loves to sing and dabble in some of his former instruments. He hopes to return to composing and performing in the coming years.