About the Founder

HeartMath founder Doc Childre is a global authority on optimizing human performance and personal effectiveness. He is the originator of the HeartMath^® System, which entails practical, heart-based tools and technologies people of all ages and walks of life can use to reduce stress, improve performance and enhance their health and well-being. The HeartMath System is widely used by Fortune 500 companies, government and police organizations, hospitals, clinics and schools.

In 1991, Doc Childre founded the nonprofit Institute of HeartMath (IHM), a research and education organization. IHM’s emotional physiology, organizational, educational and clinical research has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at many scientific conferences worldwide.

Doc Childre is chairman of the IHM Scientific Advisory Board and HeartMath LLC, chairman and co-CEO of Quantum Intech Inc., and a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators and the entertainment industry through his firm, Top-Down Consulting. He has written a dozen books, including The HeartMath Solution, From Chaos to Coherence and Transforming Stress. He also created the award-winning emWave^® PC Stress Relief System heart-rhythm-coherence technology.

Doc Childre’s work with HeartMath has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN’s Headline News, Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, Prevention magazine, Psychology Today, Golf magazine, Cosmopolitan, Self, Men’s Fitness, USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications and media around the world.

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