Dr. Stephen White is a psychologist and the President of Work Trauma Services Inc., a consulting group he founded in 1982 to assist employers with serious workplace crises. His extensive work in organizational trauma reduction led to his specializing, since 1989, in the assessment and management of workplace violence risk. He has consulted on over 4,000 threat cases for numerous Fortune 500 companies and private or public organizations of all sizes throughout the United States. He has designed and provided detailed employer threat management team training for responding to a wide range of potential risk scenarios. Dr. White has testified before the California State Legislature on behalf of workplace violence prevention legislation, and has published in the areas of workplace trauma management. He is the co-author of Threat Management of Stalking Cases in The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives (Academic Press, 1998). Dr. White, along with Dr. Reid Meloy, developed and published in 2007 The WAVR-21, the first scientifically based structured guide for assessing workplace violence risk. Dr. White was among invited experts of both the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and the American Society of Industrial Security to participate in their development of online and published guidelines for the prevention of workplace violence. Since the events of September 11th he has worked with corporate business continuity teams to integrate human resilience planning into disaster recovery efforts. Dr. White is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, where he currently co-facilitates a professional development group for medical students. He is a frequent guest lecturer at local, regional, and national forums for human resource, security, and line managers, employment law attorneys, law enforcement officials, and employee assistance professionals.

Dr. Reid Meloy is a diplomate in forensic psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He was formerly Chief of the Forensic Mental Health Division for San Diego County, and now devotes his time to a private criminal forensic practice, research, writing, and teaching. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law; and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is past President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. In 1992 he received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession Award from the California Psychological Association; in 1998 he received the first National Achievement Award from the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals; and in 2000 his stalking book received honorable mention, the Manfred Guttmacher Award, American Psychiatric Association. He is also President of Forensis, Inc., a nonprofit, public benefit corporation devoted to forensic psychiatric and psychological research (www.forensis.org). Dr. Meloy has authored or co-authored over one hundred ninety papers published in peer-reviewed psychiatric and psychological journals, and has authored, co-authored, or edited ten books: The Psychopathic Mind (1988), Clinical Guidelines for Involuntary Outpatient Treatment (1990), Violent Attachments (1992), Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities (1994), Contemporary Rorschach Interpretation (1997), The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives (1998), Violence Risk and Threat Assessment (2000), The Mark of Cain (2001), The Scientific Pursuit of Stalking (2006), and Stalking, Threats, and Attacks Against Public Figures (2008). He is a sought after psychological expert on various criminal cases throughout the United States, and is currently a consultant to the counterintelligence division of the FBI. He is also a member of the Fixated Research Group for the United Kingdom’s Home Office concerning threats to the Royal Family and British political figures.