David E. Morrison III, M.D.

With his extensive experience working with senior executives, Dr. Morrison was recruited to be a subject matter expert for the Institute for Fraud Prevention in 2008. Along with two colleagues, he has written a paper: Bringing Freud to Fraud, which will be published in a book with a similar title by Wiley Publishing in 2012. He has presented his ideas on the motivations of those who commit fraud in the executive ranks for international conferences on Organizational Psychiatry, as well as emotions and motivation. Working on Morrison Associates’ projects since 1980, Dr. Morrison began as a full-time consultant in 1996. As Director of Medical Services and Director of Individual Consultations, his primary roles include leading individual consultations for executives, facilitating seminars, and developing new services. His current suite of education programs are integrated into a 12-week, 30-hour Leadership Academy in which judgment, teams, power, feedback, and self-awareness are tied to leadership. His courses have been adapted for internal training and education programs at these corporations: Accenture, Food Lion, Hospira, Kraft and Motorola. Dr. Morrison was born in New York City, and raised in Topeka, Kansas and Barrington, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988 with a degree in Spanish Literature, and in 1992 from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His psychiatric residency was completed at University Hospitals of Case Western in Cleveland in 1996, and he was a Chief Resident his final year. Dr. Morrison is currently the President of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry. He also is a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry where he is on the Committee for Work and Organizations, and serves on the Board of the Tomkin’s Institute of Applied Studies of Emotion, Cognition, and Motivation. Dr. Morrison is a board certified psychiatrist.