David Caruso

David R. Caruso is the co-founder of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) Skills Group.

Caruso served as a research affiliate at Yale University and Special Assistant to the Dean of Yale College and currently consults with the Organizational Effectiveness group at Yale.

He has published numerous articles – peer reviewed journal articles, reviews and chapters – on the topics of emotional intelligence and leadership.

He has spoken to executives and has trained thousands of professionals around the world from Brazil to Ireland to China to Australia. Over the years, he has spoken at Lockheed Martin, World Economic Forum, Google, Procore, Sberbank, Yale School of Medicine, US Coast Guard Academy and USCIS.

Caruso was a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development pre-doctoral fellow and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. He was then awarded a National Institute of Mental Health fellowship and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in Developmental Psychology at Yale University. He has Fortune 200 experience in strategic planning and market research and then worked for a market research firm. For the last many years he as conducted thousands of executive assessments and hundreds of sessions on emotional intelligence.