Bruce Cryer has had a diverse career spanning musical theater, biotech, personal development, health and well-being, and executive coaching. He began as a singer/dancer/actor on Broadway, including two years in The Fantasticks, the world’s longest running musical. Since the early 80s, Bruce has been teaching innovative approaches to optimal health, business success, personal balance, and human performance. He was named CEO of HeartMath in 2000, having helped launch the Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre in 1991. Bruce has worked with leaders at Stanford University, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, NASA, Unilever, Shell, Cisco, Dropbox, Vistage, and many other organizations including the NHS in the UK.

Bruce is co-author of From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance and the Harvard Business Review article “Pull the Plug on Stress”. Since 1997 Bruce has been adjunct professor at Stanford University.

A two-year health crisis convinced him to focus his energies on healing and creativity. Bruce is now nine years cancer-free, and eight years MRSA free, singing, dancing and enjoying photography again. He created a keynote performance called “What Makes Your Heart Sing”, designed to awaken the power of inspiration. He recently released Renaissance Human, an album of original songs co-created with the Brothers Koren. 

Bruce currently mentors leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, gives keynote performances and teaches a course he developed on the connection between Creativity and Well-Being at Stanford, the New York Open Center, the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences, and 1440. He performs regularly in New York.