David Posen

Best-selling author, speaker and physician, Dr. David Posen, is one of North America's leading experts on stress mastery, work-life balance, health and wellness.

Dr. Posen is the author best-selling book, The Little Book of Stress Relief. His other popular book titles include Is Work Killing You?, Always Change a Losing Game, Staying Afloat When Water Gets Rough, and most recently, Authenticity. His magazine articles have appeared in Canadian Living and Readers Digest as well as several medical journals.  He wrote a weekly column on stress and lifestyle management for a year on the popular website www.canoe.ca. Dr. Posen has appeared many times on TV and radio across Canada and has been quoted in many leading U.S. magazines such as Redbook, Cosmopolitan, People, McCall’s, Men’s Health and USA Weekend.

A graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School in 1967, Dr. Posen was involved in a research project in San Francisco before interning in Edmonton, Alberta. After a year of general practice in the Canadian Arctic, he spent a year practicing in Jerusalem. In 1971, he started a family practice in Oakville, Ontario. In 1985, Dr. Posen gave up his general practice to devote his time exclusively to stress management, lifestyle counseling and psychotherapy. 

Dr. Posen’s dynamic presentations have empowered thousands of people to take control of their lives...and come out on top. His unique personal style - combining humour and practical analogies - helps unlock the mysteries of stress and wellness. There's no quick fix for mastering stress and change. But creative and effective strategies exist which can be learned by everyone. Dr. David Posen teaches people how.