David “Daven” E. Morrison, III, M.D. is an organizational psychiatrist with over 15 years of experience in working with senior corporate executives on leadership and executive functioning. The focus of his work is to deepen the capacity of senior executives to be self-aware. With a refined process of individual and senior management team consultation he has worked successfully for companies many industries and within multiple levels of management and management structures.

Morrison Associates, Ltd., founded in 1976, is a consulting firm that has been working primarily with financial service organizations such as banks, accounting firms, insurance companies and private equity groups. The firm has assessed in depth more than 1,500 leaders at companies such as Abbott, Accenture, Amoco, Arthur Andersen, Ashta Chemical, AT&T, Bank of America, Baker-Hughes, BP, CF Industries, Chicago Tribune, Continental Bank, Conseco, Elizabeth Arden, Exxon, Food Lion, Hospira, Illinois Tool Works , Johnson & Higgins, Loyola University Medical Center, Motorola, Nabisco, Northern Trust, Schneider International, Unilever, Wachovia, The Williams Companies, and others. Concepts and experiences with these organizations resulted in the creation of a variety of high-quality educational programs. The firm’s research has afforded insights into assessing success characteristics in leaders, recognizing accounting partners who put the firm at risk, and measuring growth in self-awareness as part of transformational leadership programs.

Daven is a graduate of Northwestern University, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. A past president of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry, he is active with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)–Committee on Work & Organizations; Institute for Fraud Prevention (IFP); and the Tomkins Institute of Applied Studies of Motivation, Emotion and Cognition. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rosalind Franklin University’s Chicago School of Medicine. Daven resides in Grayslake, Illinois, with his wife, Jeanette, and his boys, Daniel and Henry.