Dr. Tim Scudder has spent most of his professional life studying and teaching about personality and working relationships. While he began his career in public accounting, his audits and performance monitoring of workplace training agencies soon sparked his interest in the power of human potential and relationship awareness theory. That led to his work with Core Strengths, a global talent development company.

As a principal in the company since 1995, Tim has played a lead role in creating curricula based on the ground-breaking work of the firm's founder, acclaimed psychologist Elias Porter, and developing the world's premier RQ assessment, the SDI 2.0. Tim has written and co-authored several books, articles, and training resources, including Results through Relationships, Have a Nice Conflict, The Leaders We Need and What Makes Us Follow, Working with SDI 2.0, and Relationship Intelligence.

He is frequently featured at conferences, association events, and workshops on leadership, strengths, motivation, teamwork, change management, and productive working relationships. In addition to his research and leadership roles at Core Strengths, he consults with organizations to develop leadership capacity, manage change and conflict, and build and engage teams. His clients have included IBM, CME Group, United Airlines, USC, Amazon, the US Army, and the US National Park Service.

Tim has a Master's degree in human development and a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems, both from Fielding Graduate University. His research on personality types in relationship awareness theory provided the first empirical validation of Sigmund Freud's views on normal personality types.

Tim is an avid motorcyclist, surfer, husband, and proud girl-dad to three daughters.