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 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, the military, 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 chairs the Scientific Advisory Board 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, Transforming Depression and The HeartMath Approach to Managing Hypertension. He is also the creator of the award-winning emWave® heart rhythm coherence technology. He is also a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators and the entertainment industry through his firm Top-Down Consulting.