Biography

We live in an ethics-starved world where growing numbers of people hunger for a blueprint for integrity-centered living, working, loving and serving.

• Are you searching for a refreshingly original speaker or trainer who engagingly reveals the keys to integrity-centered living, working, loving, and serving?
• Would your people benefit from enlivening strategies for attaining life fulfillment despite difficult times... by combining personal wellbeing and effectiveness to make a positive difference at work, at home and in their community?

What Makes Dr. Gruder So Compelling

Whether your event is for the public or your business, for government workers or politicians, for educators or students, or for religious organizations or mental health professionals, eight -time book award winner Dr. David "The Integritizer" Gruder, PhD, DCEP, stands out among the sea of presenters as an unparalleled ethics educator.

Why? Because Dr. Gruder is perhaps the world’s only clinical-organizational psychologist whose specialization is integrity development, and who is also a top talent as a speaker and trainer. Hailed by Radio & Television Interview Reports as “America’s Integrity Expert,” he presents, facilitates, and consults worldwide on integrity-centered life fulfillment, business success, corporate social responsibility, leadership, psychotherapy, and coaching.

His deeply engaging core message is:

1. True integrity is the art of living life at the intersection of "me," "we" and "us all."
2. The secret to life fulfillment is integrity-centered living, working, loving and serving.
3. Natural developers intuitively use seven core life skills to attain integrity-centered life fulfillment.
4. The rest of us can learn how to use these skills on purpose to live a deeply fulfilling integrity-centered life.
5. Now is the time to Integritize America and the world. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Businesses that value corporate responsibility Integritize their employees, managers, and executives… and the communities they serve and the nonprofits they support. Educators who value ethics and social responsibility Integritize their teachers, administrators, staff and students. Effective helping professionals (therapists, coaches, clergy) Integritize their clients by helping them outgrow the baggage impairs their integrity and interferes with feeling fulfilled.

Dr. Gruder has for nearly three decades studied and written multi-award-winning books about the secrets natural developers use to attain integrity-centered personal, relationship, work, and service fulfillment. As a speaker, teacher, and trainer, he has an enthralling way of blending psychological principles with spiritual wisdom, of combining his curriculum design training with his leadership experience , and of his weaving his clinical acumen with his deeply self-revealing personal stories. This unusual combination of capabilities is the source of his consistently high ratings as a speaker, teacher, trainer, and consultant. You will find sample Kudos from meeting planners and event attendees after the next section.

A Remarkable Sampling of Topics from Over 35 Years & Hundreds of Events as a Speaker, Trainer & Educator

Integritize America: A Master Plan for Solving Our Problems While Restoring U.S. Credibility as a World Leader
A massive integrity deficit has torn apart the fabric of our great country. An integrity movement is the solution. The Integritize America Campaign provides educational programs revealing four foundational guidelines for solving all of the problems we face. They are: 1) Clarify what does and doesn't create life fulfillment; 2) Emphasize sustainable abundance, including governmental financial integrity, socially responsible business profitability, and individual financial independence; 3) Restore integrity with democracy's mission statement (the U.S. Constitution's preamble); and 4) Replace coercion and compromise with synergy as the problem-solving method of choice. Integritize America programs are available for businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, religious organizations, mental health and personal development conferences, community organizations, governmental and nongovernmental groups, the media, and the general public. Embodying these four principles is the key to re-establishing the United States as the world's integrity leader: the most important type of leadership America can provide today. If your conference or organization places a premium on Corporate, Governmental or Citizen Social Responsibility, these "Integritize America" programs could not be a better fit.

The Three Secrets to Life Fulfillment… and None of Them is Money!
The American Dream has been derailed because we forgot the simple three-part recipe for life fulfillment. They grow out of our three core drives as human beings: our drive to be who we truly are (authenticity), our drive to bond with others (connection) and our drive to influence the world around us (impact). Our relationship with these three core drives also determines how much integrity we have. Authenticity translates into self-integrity, connection into relationship integrity and impact into societal integrity. Discover the real way to attain integrity-centered life fulfillment: by reclaiming right relationship with your three core drives.

Creating Sustainable Abundance in Business: How to Integritize Your Corporate Culture and Image
Discover the triple bottom line of sustainable abundance in business and learn how "integritizing" your employees and managers, and your corporate image, are among the most affordable strategies available for creating socially responsible profitability during difficult times. If your company values corporate social responsibility, this is an event to be sure to book.

Creating Financially Responsible Government, Business & Citizens: Three Psychological Keys to Sustainable Abundance Through Financial Integrity
Individuals, couples, businesses, and government need a new money template for establishing financial integrity, sustainability and independence. One that illuminates core principles about the psychology of money and that provides powerful exercises and concrete actions that enable people to embody these principles. We don't only need this kind of template; we hungry for it. These three key principles have to do with how we value our life energy, our relationship to debt, and freedom from our limiting beliefs about abundance.

Harnessing the Seven Passions of Natural Developers: How You Too Can Create Socially Responsible Inner Fulfillment & Outer Success
Studying natural developers has revealed seven passions responsible for the socially responsible inner fulfillment and outer success that they so consistently attain. This presentation reveals how the rest of us can do on purpose what natural developers do intuitively. Mastering these essential life skills is the key to integrity-centered living, working, loving and serving in the 21st century.

Toward a "Freesponsible" Society: How to End the Culture Wars by Restoring Governmental and Citizen Integrity With America's Mission Statement
Do you know what America's Mission Statement is? It's the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Do you know the preamble's three foundational principles that form the core of America's Mission Statement? Discover the essence of democracy and true patriotism. Learn how you can embody these principles in all parts of your life no matter who you are or who you influence.

Synergize Don't Compromise: How to Move Beyond Coercion and Compromise to Co-Create Sustainable Solutions
Coercion and compromise are fatally flawed problem-solving and negotiation strategies in sustainability-oriented relationships. In fact, these two strategies have torn apart the landscape of our communities and our politics. Discover the essential keys to creating synergy-based solutions, and how those who master synergy-based problem solving make better partners, parents, team members, managers, and leaders.

A Fresh Approach to Dealing With Difficult People: Unlocking New Possibilities With the Five Archetypes of Difficult People
Have you been searching for a new angle on this often-dry topic that stimulates renewed passion and greater effectiveness? Look no further. All of us have five main archetypal traits: being, doing, stability, change, and choicemaking. Difficult people are simply those who have over-active or negligent relationships with one or more of these core traits. Learning how to more easily recognize and intervene with these core human tendencies can make you more compassionately masterful with more difficult people than you might have imagined possible.

Key Symptoms of Integrity Deficit Disorder: How Helping Professionals, Educators and Clergy Can Help Those They Serve Recover Their Integrity
The personal development movement has for decades unintentionally helped spawn generations of people suffering from "integrity deficit disorder." Its symptoms include chronic self-centeredness or self-neglect, lack of self-responsibility, rampant entitlement issues, and ideological rightness addiction. The time has come to place integrity development at the center of preventive health, psychotherapy, coaching, education and religious counseling. It is time for the age of "personal development that serves us all." This presentation provides helping professionals, educators and clergy with a complete superstructure for providing this assistance to those they serve.

The Truth About Fanaticism Disorder: Ten Psychological Principles for Effectively Dealing With Ideological Rightness Addiction and Terrorism
Rightness addiction is one of the most dangerous addictions of our time. Fanaticism disorder is an extreme version of rightness addiction that fuels culture wars, political polarization, ideological hatreds, and ultimately terrorism. Understanding the psychological dynamics of rightness addiction and fanaticism disorder is absolutely essential for creating new and effective solutions to all of these profoundly dangerous problems.

How to Harvest Precious Gifts from Awful Experiences
No one escapes this life without their share of unasked-for and unacceptable experiences. Such experiences are among the threads that create the rich tapestry of life. They call upon us to become graceful at harvesting profound gifts from these experiences rather than allow them to strangle our joy, passion, love or effectiveness. Through a combination of deeply moving personal stories and empowering psycho-spiritual wisdom, this heart-uplifting keynote reveals how to transform unasked-for life upheavals into unexpected blessings.

Conquering Anger Mountain: Beyond Anger Management, From Anger Prevention to Anger Completion
Did you know that anger comes in four distinct flavors and that anger management techniques don't touch three of these? This eye-opening approach to dealing with anger provides you with better ways to recognize and respond to boundaries, escalation, flooding and recycling anger. Versions of this presentation are available for managers, HR personnel, helping professionals and the general public.

NICE Boundaries Training: How to Love or Work With Others Without Resentment & With Integrity
Contrary to popular belief, personal boundaries are not confrontation devices, lines drawn in the sand, ultimatums or manipulation tools. Rather, they are actually essential skills for living authentically at the intersection of integrity, personal power and collaboration. Boundaries intelligence is a master life skill for remaining in integrity with yourself while collaborating with others. This presentation reveals a simple four-step process for accurately identifying and effectively honoring your boundaries.

Energy Psychology: The Breakthrough Personal Development Methods of the 21st Century
"All of life is electrical," according to Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Rod MacKinnon. Energy Psychology methods appear to rapidly resolve old baggage and amplify peak performance by rebalancing and optimizing the body's electrical system. Combining Western psychological wisdom with Eastern medicine methods that treat the body's electrical system, these mind/body methods are unusually easy to learn. This presentation equips you with the basics of what may well prove to be the 21st century's most useful self-help, coaching and psychotherapy procedures.

Kudos From Meeting Planners and Attendees

Having given literally hundreds of lectures and trainings since the 1970s, from hospital Grand Rounds to multi-day workshops at international conferences, to teaching classes for a wide array of organizations and disciplines, event planners and attendees have this to say about him:

• “Dr. Gruder’s workshops are meticulously planned. He is a brilliant analyst and fine synthesizer of human experience. Planning a workshop with Dr. Gruder is a delight. He is prompt, clear and courteous. Our participants gave Dr. Gruder outstanding evaluations.” – MM & CP, Alphacom Consultants & Event Planners, Alberta, Canada
• “I have attended David's speaking events for over ten years, including events I have hired him to provide. His personable and disarming style combine with his training design talents and impeccable materials to create powerful changes in thinking and behavior that result in more satisfying lives and career effectiveness” – JCC, Former Trainer for the Ken Blanchard Companies
• “Thank you for your excellently rated luncheon address at our annual conference. You were so well received and the presentation was simply a hit. – DS, Certified Meeting Planner, Conference & Meetings Director
• “Dr. Gruder is incredible….whether it be in teaching, coaching, or mentoring colleagues, he excels. – DG, Principal, Guthrie & Associates, Certified Meeting Planner

Attendees and workshop participants have also consistently raved about Dr. Gruder’s keynotes and training programs:

• “Utterly moving and captivating – very useful information.”
• "Very user-friendly – presented in a very easy, understandable, digestible way.”
• “My favorite speaker on the program.”
• “The highlight of the conference – we could have had an entire conference on his material.”
• “An extraordinary training experience. Dr. Gruder did an outstanding job of presenting the material in a clear, organized and understandable manner that was rich enough for therapists to get great value from yet easy for everyday people to make use of. Most of all, he brought out the absolute best in everyone. He really was magnificent!”

Awards, Acclaim, Clients

Dr. Gruder's latest print book, “The New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, Your Relationships and our World,” has won three book awards since its release in 2008, in the areas of health & wellness, self-help and social change. The rarity of a book winning awards in both social change and personal development categories attests to the broad appeal of Dr. Gruder's template for integrity-centered living, loving, working and serving. (Dr. Gruder's first print book, Sensible Self-Help, won two book awards including Colliers 1997 Mental Health Book-of-the-Year.)

Critically acclaimed across an unusually wide range of disciplines, The New IQ sets a new standard for 21st century personal, relationship, societal, business, and leadership integrity… and life fulfillment. Among the more than fifty book endorsers of The New IQ are leadership gurus like Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy, corporate executives with Disney and Tiffany, specialists with the National Education Association, and formers presidents of the American Holistic Medical Association.

The foundation of socially responsible business practice is Integritizing your corporate culture and external image. Integritized Systems™, developed by seasoned clinical/organizational psychologist and five-award-winning author Dr. David Gruder, provides what is perhaps the world's only complete blueprint for building individual, relationship, and organizational integrity.

Dr. Gruder's business and leadership clients have ranged from family-owned businesses to American Express work teams, from the Sanoviv Medical Institute to the San Diego Office of Education Management Academy, and from local politicians and executives to World Trade Organization ambassadors. He was also the Founding President of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and a core architect of its certification programs, for which he remains a senior certification trainer, consultant and continuing education provider.

Invite Dr. Gruder to Integritize your company, organization, agency, or conference attendees so your people become role-models and champions of integrity, ethics, and character. Upgrade your public image as an integrity leader by sponsoring Dr. Gruder to provide his Integritize America programs to nonprofits and the public. Together, we can Integritize America... and through this, we can restore the positive global reputation of the United States, first and foremost as a world leader in integrity.

Dr. Gruder's primary website is www.TheNewIQ.com.