David Sluyter (facilitator) is senior advisor to the president and board of trustees of the Fetzer Institute, a nonprofit research and educational foundation with a mission to foster an awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His activities are aimed at creating programs for health professionals, teachers, and other public leaders that focus on inner qualities of leadership, such as authenticity and integrity. Dr. Sluyter has been interested in the area of emotional intelligence since its inception. He helped to found the Collaboration for the Advancement of Social and Emotional Learning, and co-edited, Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications. Dr. Sluyter received his doctorate in counseling psychology at Western Michigan University. He is a alumnus of Salzburg Seminar Session 356, Through the Patient's Eyes Collaboration between Patients and Health Care Professionals, 1998, and was a participant at the following Salzburg Seminar/Fetzer Institute Sessions: Leadership Project Advisory Group Meeting, 2000; Local and Community Leadership: Looking Within, 2001; Leadership in Education: Looking Within, 2002; and Relationships in Healthcare: Leadership from Within, 2002.