Bio
Bruce is often called a renaissance man.
At age 15 he sang in the choir for Duke Ellington and by 19 was playing The Boy in the world’s longest running musical, The Fantasticks.
Trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he has performed in New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park, television commercials and films, ran a small art business, and was a founding member of ODC, San Francisco’s top rated dance company.
Success came easy, surprising him at every turn.
His parallel passions for exploring inner worlds of spirituality, optimal health and human performance brought him to the vibrant California community where he founded and/or managed several holistic businesses.
He was a founding director of the acclaimed HeartMath Institute and later CEO of HeartMath LLC for 11 years.
Principles he developed around the connection between coherence, health, performance, and leadership have been taught to executives at the business schools of Stanford, Columbia, University of California Berkeley, and Nanyang Polytechnic University in Singapore, as well as a wide range of first-class companies and health systems globally.
In 2003, Harvard Business Review published a landmark article on the connection between executive stress, well-being, and performance, for which Bruce was the lead author.
While CEO at HeartMath, the company was honored in 2008, 2009, and 2010 as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.
Bruce was also named a Top 50 Thought Leader in Personal Excellence by Leadership Excellence magazine.
Life changed dramatically in late 2009 when Bruce received a serious diagnosis leading to a two-year health journey which brought many dimensions of his life up for review.
Gradually recovering – and now living youthfully — Bruce began to sing and dance again, inspired by a collaboration with Emmy-award winning composer, Gary Malkin.
This creative renaissance also fueled his passion to share his decades of business strategy and personal growth discoveries with executives and entrepreneurs as a coach and mentor.
A new creative phase of life had begun.
In 2017 Bruce recorded his first album of original songs — Renaissance Human – with the expert guidance of Isaac and Thorald Koren, also known as the Brothers Koren.
Also in 2017, Stanford University commissioned Bruce to create a course on Creativity for Well-Being, which is now offered globally.
In 2018 he returned to NYC and has performed at the Norwood Club, Pangea, Don’t Tell Mama, and the United Palace Theater.
He is part of the vocal ensemble at St Clements Church and Theater performing a program called Peaceable Hour.
Bruce’s clients include Stanford University, NASA, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, The World Bank, Unilever, the NHS, Cathay Pacific Airways, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, and Yosemite National Park.
Bruce is now 13 years cancer- and staph infection-free, an avid iphoneographer, and has been dancing and hiking on titanium hips for more than 11 years.
“I’m ready to serve.”
His life story has had many surprising twists and turns, with certain obstacles that were daunting and even terrifying on every level.
His devotion to love, to caring and supporting others, and to being the most authentic human he can be has guided his life.