About Us
HeartMath LLC is a cutting edge performance company providing a range of unique services, products, and technology to boost performance, productivity, health and well-being while dramatically reducing stress. Founded in 1991 as a non-profit research organization by Doc Childre, HeartMath has earned global recognition for our unique research-based techniques and proprietary technology to transform the stress of change and uncertainty, and bring coherence and renewed energy to the workplace, and the home.
By 1997 our corporate solutions had gained increasing success and impact, and we founded HeartMath LLC. Our easy-to-use solutions dramatically--and quantifiably--boost performance and health for both the individual and the organization. HeartMath programs have now been used by more than 100,000 executives, managers, staff, physicians, educators, health professionals, athletes, as well as individuals dedicated to improving their performance, health and well-being.
More than a decade of research, published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, confirms a single, fundamental premise: Unleashing the full power of an organization starts with empowering the individual. When we're internally self-managed – feeling balanced, in control, and powerful--we make our greatest contribution. We act, not react. We think creatively. We communicate clearly. We manage well under pressure. We make good decisions. Our most inspiring leadership qualities emerge. When dozens, hundreds, thousands, of employees work to that zone of peak performance, so does the organization.
HeartMath clinical studies have dramatically demonstrated the critical link between emotion, heart function and cognitive performance. HeartMath case studies have proven significant business outcomes with measurable improvements in leadership performance, sales effectiveness, customer service, staff retention, cost reductions, health, and overall performance.
Additionally, HeartMath has been internationally recognized for providing leading-edge products and programs for people interested in personal development and improved emotional, mental and physical health. Through our programs and products delivered by our staff and through our network of alliance partners and licensees, we are having a global impact on society, helping the world move from chaos to coherence.
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you've heard of us.
HeartMath's
compelling approach has been published in journals
such as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Innovative Management, The American Journal
of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, and Journal of Advancement in Medicine.
HeartMath's successes have been featured in media stories on CNN, ABC World News Tonight, NBC's Today Show, Good Morning America, the Lifetime Network, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. HeartMath's key corporate clients include Shell, Hewlett-Packard, Liz Claiborne, Cisco Systems, BP, Boeing, Sony, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Unilever, numerous hospitals, as well as federal and state agencies, and the U.S. military.
Doc
Childre, Founder, Chairman
Doc Childre is the founder of HeartMath and a global authority on optimizing human performance and personal effectiveness. He is the originator of the HeartMath® System, a set of practical, heart-based technologies and tools that all people can use to reduce stress, improve performance, and enhance 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 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 numerous scientific conferences worldwide.
Doc Childre chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of IHM and serves as Chairman of HeartMath LLC and Chairman and co-CEO of Quantum Intech Inc. Doc is the author of a dozen books, including The HeartMath Solution, From Chaos to Coherence, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming Anger and The HeartMath Approach to Managing Hypertension. He is also the creator of the award-winning Freeze-Framer® heart rhythm coherence technology. Doc is also a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators, and the entertainment industry through his firm Top-Down Consulting.
Doc Childre's work with HeartMath has been featured on NBC Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CBS The Early Show, ABC News Now, PBS Body & Soul, ABC Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, CNBC.com, and in the Harvard Business Review, Newsweek, Business 2.0, The Economist's Intelligent Life, PC Magazine.com, Reader's Digest, Web MD, Prevention magazine, Psychology Today, Golf magazine, Golf Digest, PGA.com, Parent's, Cosmopolitan, Allure, Shape, Self, Esquire, GQ, Men's Fitness, Men's Vogue, USA Today, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among numerous other publications and media outlets around the world.
Bruce Cryer, President and CEOBruce brings more than 25 years of experience in business management, human performance and organizational change to the position of President and CEO of HeartMath LLC. Bruce helped launch the Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre and is the key architect of the Inner Quality Management (IQM)® programs. Bruce successfully guided HeartMath programs into the global corporate arena, with projects at Motorola, CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce), McKinsey, Shell, LifeScan (a Johnson & Johnson company), Cathay Pacific Airways, and the World Bank.
For eight years, Bruce served as Vice President for a biotech company, where his broad-based senior level experience included marketing, training, distribution, project planning, logistics and implementation. Bruce is co-author of From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance (pub. 1999) with Doc Childre, along with a multimedia interactive CD-ROM based on the book.
Bruce is on the faculty of the Stanford Executive Program, and has lectured at the Stanford Sloan Program and the Stanford Executive Briefings series, University of California at Berkeley Haas Business School, the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, and the Nanyang Polytechnic University School of Business Management in Singapore. He has been a featured speaker to business audiences such as the International Society for Performance Improvement, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Young President's Organization (YPO), The Executive Committee (TEC), Systems Thinking in Action Conference, and several conferences on Emotional Intelligence.
Howard Martin, Executive VP, Strategic DevelopmentHoward Martin brings more than 30 years of experience in business and personal development to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategic Development. Howard's responsibilities include global alliances, marketing, and program and product development. Howard has been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre in the development and teaching of HeartMath's programs since its inception. He speaks internationally on the HeartMath approach to advancing human performance that is based on compelling scientific research--linking heart function with health, emotional well-being and intelligence.
Howard is co-author with Doc Childre of The HeartMath Solution, published in 2000 by Harper San Francisco. He also developed Nightingale-Conant's tape series, "The HeartMath Method."
Howard is a dynamic speaker, and has delivered hundreds of workshops and keynote addresses to audiences ranging from corporations, to the armed forces, to educators, families, and human service providers. As a key spokesperson for HeartMath, he has conducted hundreds of media interviews. His appearances include CNN Headline News, U.P.I. Radio network, WNBC-TV-New York, WGN-TV-Chicago, Discovery Channel-Beyond 2000, CBN/Canada, New Women, Muscle and Fitness, San Francisco Chronicle, Billboard, and the Boston Globe.
Chris Jacob, VP, Finance/COOChris Jacob is a businesswoman, teacher, and speaker. As Vice President of Finance and Chief Operating Officer of HeartMath LLC, she is an active participant in the development of strategic plans, managing operational processes, and overseeing human resources and staff development. Her duties include financial reporting, government compliance, risk management, database management, and financing.
Ms. Jacob graduated with honors in Mathematics and French at Louisiana State University. She has eleven years of institutional teaching experience, including Louisiana State University and Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi.
In 1980 she moved to California, where she became a partner in Planetary Publications, currently the publishing division of HMLLC. She began extensive training in accounting, computer programming, and data processing management and has served as Chief Financial Officer for Planetary Publications since 1987. In 1991, when Doc Childre founded the Institute of HeartMath, Chris served as its controller. She continued in this role until 1997 when HeartMath LLC was established as a separate entity and she became its CFO.
Chris has also delivered HeartMath programs throughout the United States and Canada on conflict resolution, empowerment and stress management for businesses and schools.
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., Strategic AdvisorDeborah Rozman, Ph.D., is President of Quantum Intech, Inc. and a psychologist and author. Quantum Intech (QI) is a technology and software licensing company, founded by Doc Childre, that develops and licenses proprietary products "powered by HeartMath" to reduce stress, improve health, and increase performance. QI's mission is to increase coherence within as many individuals and organizations as possible worldwide by licensing its products and services into five key markets - business, health, sports, entertainment (games and toys), and education (schools).
QI's flagship computer-based product, Freeze-Framer®, measures users' autonomic nervous system state (emotional balance) and provides precise, immediate feedback to the user on that state. Users are then able to understand and improve their autonomic responses through QI's emotional management methodology called the HeartMath System®, which trains adults and children to control their emotional state and reduce stress, thereby improving health and performance. The System is based on fifteen years of research by the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) and HeartMath LLC. Dr. Rozman was a founding director of the Institute of HeartMath and continues to serve on the Institute's Scientific Advisory Board and on the governing board of HeartMath LLC.
Dr. Rozman is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath system, giving media interviews and keynote addresses on heart intelligence and intui-technologies for executives, scientists and health professionals throughout the world.