David G. Altman, PhD, is executive vice president of research, innovation, and product development at the Center for Creative Leadership. Previously, he spent 19 years in academia, 10 years as an associate professor and professor of public health sciences and of pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and 10 years as a senior research scientist (and postdoctoral fellow and research associate) at the Stanford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention. He received his MA and PhD in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine, and his BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.