LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Director, Grossman On Truth

www.GrossmanOnTruth.com

In their description of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, Slate Magazine said, “Grossman cuts such a heroic, omnicompetent figure, he could have stepped out of a video game.” He has five patents to his name, has published four novels, two children’s books, and six non-fiction books to include “perennial bestsellers” such as:

-ON KILLING (translated into 7 languages, with over half a million copies sold in English, cited in scholarly works over 3,400 times)

-ON COMBAT (US Marine Corps Commandant’s Required Reading list, translated into 5 languages, a quarter-million copies sold in English, cites in scholarly works over 600 times), and

-ON SPIRITUAL COMBAT (a Christian Book Award Finalist).

He is a former buck Sergeant who came up through the ranks from Private to Lt. Colonel. He is a US Army Ranger, a paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor. He has a Black Belt in Hojutsu, the martial art of the firearm, and has been inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Col. Grossman’s research was cited by the President of the United States in a national address, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Congress, and numerous state legislatures. He has been to the White House on two occasions, to brief the President and the Vice President in his areas of expertise. He has served as an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts. And he helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school massacre, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton and Nickel Mines Amish school massacres.

Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict and has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Since his retirement from the US Army in 1998, he continues to be “on the road” over 200 days a year, spanning across four decades, as one of our nation’s leading trainers for military, law enforcement, mental health providers, and school safety organizations.

Through his “Bulletproof Mind Resiliency” presentations, Col. Grossman has been of service to countless thousands of military personnel, law enforcement officers, and first responders. He likes to tell his audiences that, “The Bible says, ‘Greater love has no one than this, that they give their lives for their friends.’ But there are many ways to ‘give’ your life. Sometimes the greatest love is not to sacrifice your life, but to live a life of sacrifice.”

Today Col. Grossman is the director of the Grossman On Truth (www.GrossmanOnTruth.com). In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is has written and spoken extensively on the terrorist threat, with articles published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Civil Policy and many leading law enforcement journals, and he has been inducted as a "Life Diplomate" by the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, and a "Life Member" of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.

His hobbies are jigsaw puzzles, canoeing, pistol shooting, and asking questions that no one else is asking. Like, “Why will no one talk about how it felt to kill in combat? Why do we wear neckties? And why do we mow our lawns? A hundred years from now they will say, ‘Were they all crazy? Why did they do that?’” He is a fan of the “Meadowing Movement” (something he made up completely). For all his love of poetry, he is not capable of mustering any such himself. His one bit of doggerel is:

I think that I shall never settle,

In a lawn as nice as any meadow.

Gloria DeGaetano, M.Ed., is the founder and CEO of the Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) that provides Parent Coach Certification® for family support professionals as well as coaching services to parents and specialized services to companies and organizations. An internationally acclaimed educator, author, and parent coach, Gloria has been a middle school and high school classroom teacher, an elementary reading specialist, and a school district administrator directing reading and language arts programs, K-8. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington in teacher training and graduate programs. Her specialties and interests include family media/digital literacy. psycholinguistics and literacy development, personality and learning styles, intrinsic motivation, systems thinking applications, Appreciative Inquiry, and brain-compatible practices in teaching, learning, and parenting. Gloria is the mother of two adult sons and lives with her husband in Bellingham, WA, a poster city for the Pacific Northwest.

Her latest book is Patterns Over Time: A Research Summary: Screen Time & Healthy Development that summaries over 200 studies for thee 1960’s to the present on the impact of too much screen time on 15 areas of Healthy Development.

Previous books:

Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy (with Kathleen Bander) (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)

Parenting Well in a Media Age, (Personhood Press, 2004)

Media Smarts for Grade Levels, K-3 and 4-6, (Jamal Press, 2005)

Stop Teaching Our Kid to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence (with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman), (Harmony Books, 2014)